2 Best Restaurants in The Oregon Coast, Oregon

Although it bills itself as a wine bar, this casually upscale dining room with local art on the walls is also one of the southern Oregon Coast's most sophisticated little restaurants. The dinner menu emphasizes freshly made pastas, often served with local seafood (the pan-seared jumbo shrimp over a saffron-parsnip puree is a standout). 

With a sweeping wooden deck to watch the magnificent sunsets over Nehalem Bay and Manzanita's sand dunes, this lively farm-to-table restaurant in tiny, historic Wheeler could probably get away with serving merely ordinary food. But the owners offer a first-rate beverage program and exceptional, locavore-focused handmade pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and creative seafood fare, including pappardelle with Willapa Bay clams and agnolotti filled with wild mushrooms, nettles, and Taleggio cheese.