Best of Oregon coast: seafood as fresh as it gets at Bowpicker, Pacific Oyster, Karla’s

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Seafood tastes much better in an environment that is salty. The

Duane Street, 503-791-2942 (1636)

located across U.S. 101 from the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, offers albacore fish and chips from a repurposed gillnet boat. Picnic tables are used for outdoor dining.

An additional choice is to eat local crab or oysters at the

Oyster Drive, 503-377-2323, 5150

at Bay City, or even better, get some food to go and have a Tillamook County picnic, stopping by the Tillamook Cheese Factory and the neighboring Tillamook Country Smoker (don’t forget the ice cream).

Offshore breezes have been pushing smoke across U.S. 101 at Rockaway Beach for 48 years. The pleasant scent is attributed to

(Highway 101 North, 503-355-2362, 2010)

where the proprietor continues to smoke salmon, tuna, and oysters over wood chips from a nearby mill and vine maple.

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