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The Depot restaurant

( Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times )

56. Seaview

The Depot restaurant, which sits in Seaview on the Long Beach Peninsula, offers fancy dinners (wild boar Florentine, Peruvian mango sea scallops) in a century-old train station.

Distance: 1,068 miles

More info:

• The Depot restaurant website
• Oregon and Washington coast: where to eat