Carmel-by-the-Sea Is About to Lose Both of its Dive Bars

KSBW ^ | Aug 4, 2025 | Andrew Pridgen

[nickcarraway]

A.W. Shucks in an oyster bar. La Bicyclette is a great place to go.

[Larry Lucido]

So is Sade’s pronounced “say-dee” or “shar-day”?

[crusty old prospector]

You beat me to it.

[ClearCase_guy]

If you pronounce it incorrectly, is it a crime? And if you know the correct pronunciation, will people consider you a smooth operator?

[SkyDancer]

I have a T-shirt from Clint Eastwood’s bar that he signed. While I was wearing it.

[nickcarraway]

Hog’s Breath Inn. Did you go there to see them?

[1FreeAmerican]

I’m betting he prolly had some fun doing that.

And you as well!!

[Jim W N]

Never been to either place (not too much into bars). Now I wished I’d gone to both places. Hope they survive.

[sasquatch]

Used to work up the hill from the aquarium on Central in PG.
Is the Hog’s Breath still around?

[Migraine]

Play misty for me.

[glorgau]

Founded 100 years ago and still rents.

[sauropod]

There’s a Hog’s Breath all the way out there?

[nickcarraway]

Clint Eastwood used to own it.

[nickcarraway]

Clint Eastwood used to own it.

[Vendome]

Dang

Luv those places

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Isn't the alien space ship supposed to wipe us out soon?
So the way I see it, it doesn't matter if the bar closes.

[Veto!]

We took a year-long vacation in Big Sur many years ago. Drove up to Carmel once a month for groceries and restaurants. I don’t remember the places mentioned here. Absolutely gorgeous drive and very pretty little town.. Almost bought a house in Carmel when Clint Eastwood lived there.

[BikerJoe]

Cool. Back in the day, we’d go to the Hogs Breath a few times a year. I still have a T-shirt that says “Go ahead, make mayor.”, but not signed or anything.

[BikerJoe]

Stupid autocorrect. S/B make me mayor.

[kingu]

$274 per square foot per year, that’s insanely expensive, and the only rational way you could arrive at that valuation is for it being a bar. The owner will lose at least $5k a month renting out the tiny space.

There’s 18 spaces which are under $32 per square foot per year this bar could move to. The current property owner needs to pull their head out of their rump.