El Gato Azul

This Spanish-cuisine-leaning ‘world bistro’ boasts a shaded patio next to Granite Creek. Lunch menu highlights include sandwiches, salads and Southwestern-inflected seafood entrees, such as paella valencia ‘mussels, chicken and shrimp sauteed with house-made chorizo in a white wine-garlic sauce over saffron rice; and poblano and chorizo shrimp in a ‘Creole sauce’ with black bean salad. Or dally with a variety of dishes off their extensive tapas menu, which includes an intense marinated-mushroom salad with briny olives and whole garlic cloves in cold, refreshing vinegar; and plump Santa Fe shrimp wrapped in lightly charred bacon. Lunch and dinner daily.