Pèpe
Carmel-by-the-Sea · Since 1985
Italian Restaurants & Bakery

Noi siamo Italiani —Come Hungry.

Since 1985, the Pèpe family has fed Carmel-by-the-Sea with soul-satisfying Italian cooking and the kind of warm hospitality you only find at home. No luggage, no passports — just an appetite.

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Fresh pappardelle with burrata, pine nuts and grilled lemon fatto a mano
La Nostra Storia

Napoli to Hoboken
to Carmel-by-the-Sea

A family that came to America in 1902 — and never stopped cooking like they were still home.

I.
Napoli

The Old Country

Pèpe's grandparents' hometown on the Bay of Naples — where the Amalfi coast, the volcano, and the family recipes all begin. In vino veritas.

II.
Hoboken, NJ

A Baker at 14

Raised in a large Italian neighborhood along the Hudson, Pèpe started in a family bakery at fourteen. "I'm a baker first, a chef second."

III.
Carmel · Since 1974

The West Coast's Shangri-La

Welcomed by local Sicilian fishing families, Pèpe found a village by the sea that felt like home — and made it his life's work.

Andiamo a Mangiare

Our Restaurants

eat, drink & be merry
Little Napoli's lantern-lit courtyard with The Greeting statues in the historic El Paseo building
Best Italian · 2025 Golden Pine Cones Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives
Since 1990 · Dolores St. & 7th

Little Napoli

Bistro Italiano

The iconic Italian restaurant of the Monterey Peninsula for over thirty years. Sink into a chair by the fireplace inside the historic 1921 El Paseo building, where stucco beams cross overhead in a perfect Spanish Mission Revival arch.

The menu is canonically Italian-American — the Lasagna and Chicken Parm are top-tier — and Pèpe makes the Tiramisù himself at his nearby Carmel Bakery. In the dining room, a sign hangs beneath an early-1900s family portrait: "God bless our home and peace to all who enter."

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Pèpe's Vesuvio trattoria at dusk, string lights on the rooftop Star Bar in Carmel-by-the-Sea
Best Pizza · 2025 Golden Pine Cones Best Happy Hour · 2025
Since 2010 · Rooftop Star Bar

Vesuvio

Trattoria & Pizzeria

Named for the volcano that gates the Amalfi Coast — and on weekends, it erupts. Wood-burning Neapolitan pizza, homemade ravioli, and a rotating carte of California farm produce, with inventive cocktails like the Momma's Boy drawing the locals in.

End the night with Limoncello — as a Limoncello Mousse Cake, a Play That Funky Cello cocktail, or a $5 shot of house Pèpecello, pristine enough to earn an I.G.P. designation from the Italian government. Cin cin!

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Pèppoli at Pebble Beach, an ocean-view table overlooking the Spanish Bay golf links
Widest Antinori selection outside Tuscany
Since 2000 · Pebble Beach

Pèppoli

at Pebble Beach

Where Italy's rich traditions meet the California coast. For over twenty years, authentic Tuscan-style dishes have been paired with the widest selection of Antinori wines outside of Tuscany.

Pèppoli takes its name from one of the wine estates of Marchese Piero Antinori — called "the most important winemaker in Italy" — Pèpe's collaborator and friend.

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Est. 1899
Coffee · Pretzels · History

Carmel Bakery

In its earliest days, Carmel-by-the-Sea was a Bohemian artist colony — just Leidig's grocery, Slevin's stationery, the Pine Inn, and Carmel Bakery. Owned by the Pèpe family since 1986, it is California's oldest bakery still in its original location: more than 120 years of uninterrupted craft.

Pèpe started in a family bakery at fourteen, and no one gets up earlier. The motto for Pèpe and his bakers has never changed.

"We bake while you sleep."
In Vino Veritas

Wine & Spirits

la dolce vita
Doc Pèpe's Lab barrel-finished Old Fashioned cocktail

Doc Pèpe's Lab

Open. Pour. Stir. Enjoy.

Barrel-finished, cask-strength cocktails — the Old Fashioned, bottled and ready. The original since 2017.

Pèpecello limoncello

Pèpe Cello

Life is a Spritz

Pristine limoncello from Amalfi-grown lemons — earned an I.G.P. designation from the Italian government.

Pèpe Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

Pèpe Winery

In Vino Veritas

Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley — the family name on every cork.

The Pèpe family at Mission Ranch in Carmel
La Famiglia è Tutto

Family is Everything

"Noi siamo Italiani." The Pèpes are a proud Italian-American family, and everything you taste here has been handed down — grandparents' recipes reminiscent of Napoli, with a side of Pèpe's gutsy New Jersey roots.

Today, Pèpe's sons Christian and Gian Antonio and his wife Sandra are an integral part of the business. It is their passion to share their family lifestyle and traditions with every guest who walks through the door.

— The Pèpe Family
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The best is yet to come — and won't that be fine.
The Sinatra Room · Little Napoli — Pèpe's father was a childhood friend of Old Blue Eyes
Andiamo!

Come Hungry

No luggage, no passports, no travel agents. All you need is an appetite. Reserve your table for a brief trip to Italy — right here in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Little Napoli
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Vesuvio
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Pèppoli
At Pebble Beach →

Or call us — +1 (831) 402-7373 (PEPE)