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There Are A Lot Of Good Restaurants in Port Costa, Martinez, Concord, Clayton and Pleasant Hill. This Is A List Of The Best-Of-The-Best. Special Restaurants. We Call Them “Destination Restaurants”<\/h2>\n

You can satisfy any food craving. You can probably find a decent burger, taco, or plate of Chinese food in about 10 minutes from where you live or work.<\/p>\n

Good food is not enough to be on this restaurant list<\/strong>. Good is good. It solves a need and maybe a quick craving. But, it\u2019s not exciting and it\u2019s certainly not memorable.<\/p>\n

Special is special<\/strong>. To be on this list a restaurant must have a unique location, a startling interior,\u00a0 a signature dish. Hopefully all three. These are the places you go to feed fond food memories.<\/p>\n

There is 8 special restaurant on this list near you.<\/strong> Right here in Northern Central Contra Costa County.<\/p>\n

Visit These Restaurants When You Have The Time To Enjoy Something Special.<\/strong> Create some new fine food memories at one of these \u201cDestination Restaurants\u201d they are all special and all worth it.<\/p>\n

Did we leave your favorite \u201cdestination restaurant\u201d off this list?<\/strong>\u00a0Send us the\u00a0info here<\/a>\u00a0perhaps they are a Top Restaurant in Contra Costa County.<\/p>\n

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There Are A Lot Of Good Restaurants in Port Costa, Martinez, Concord, Clayton and Pleasant Hill. This Is A List Of The Best-Of-The-Best. Special Restaurants. We Call Them “Destination Restaurants” You can satisfy any food craving. You can probably find a decent burger, taco, or plate of Chinese food in about 10 minutes from where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"top10list.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBest Restaurants in Port Costa, Martinez, Concord, Clayton and Pleasant Hill - Contra Costa Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unique locations, dining rooms with an abundace of ambiance, and tasty signature dishes. 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