Castroville, California - Giant Artichoke

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Address:
11261 Merritt St., Castroville, CA [Show Map]
Directions:
Next to Highway 156 and Main St.
Phone:
831-633-3501
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Castroville, California - Giant Artichoke
A healthy-sized tribute to a local crop and speciality at the Giant Artichoke Restaurant. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

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Giant Artichoke. Castroville, California - Giant Artichoke

This is me at the biggest attraction of my FAVORITE food! And I had an amazing, all-artichoke dinner there, too. [Julie Orlando, 12/01/2007]

World's Largest Artichoke. Castroville, California - Giant Artichoke

Castroville, California (where I live), is the "Artichoke Center of the World," and also happens to be right down the highway from Gilroy. Here, on Merritt Street, is the Giant Artichoke, a restaurant of that name which also happens to have one HUGE cement artichoke out front! It's also rather curious that Marilyn Monroe began her beauty-queen career by winning the "Miss Artichoke" contest in the annual "Artichoke Festival" way back when...and there's still a bar (gay, now) in town called "Norma Jean's." [Hairfish, 08/22/1998]

[RA: One of our favorite big veggies. December 2007: Recent photo added.]

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