La Balena Carmel

01/25/2025

01/18/2025

01/18/2025

La Balena Nights

01/17/2025

Grateful for every last night
🙏🏻🐳🙏🏻

01/15/2025

a very special moment sharing this bottle with the best in the business
Salute!

01/04/2025

01/04/2025

VOLO di VINO
5 Wines/$25
Saturdays 2-4
+ special discounts on all wines to go!

12/16/2024

…Grazie dal Cuore…
💜🤍💜🤍💜🤍💜
The day has come for us to say “Arrivederci”… until we meet again…

After 12 years, La Balena will be closing on January 25th, 2025.

Wishing we could tell each and everyone one of you in person as you are not just customers but our California family now.
We know you will understand our decision to move to Italy to be closer to Emanuele’s family.

Thank you for sharing not just food & wine but endless stories and memories of Italy with us in this fairytale setting of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
You’ve believed in our dream through the best and also most challenging of times.

Before we go - we would love to share a glass of wine 🍷 with you and offer discounts for wine “to go.”
and PLEASE remember our staff - 100% of tips go to them.

La Balena will close for holidays on the 24th, 25th, 31st and 1st
but will be OPEN
December Sundays - 22, 29 - and Mondays - 23, 30 - during the the holiday weeks
and then back to our Tuesday - Saturday until January 25th

Look for Special Editions of VOLO di VINO wine flights starting on the 21st of December.

with Immense Gratitude
Grazie dal Cuore - un cuore sempre VIOLA! -
Thank you from our hearts💜
Emanuele & Anna Bartolini

“My darling where-ever you are
Look up and find our star
For the same stars look down
On this lonely little town
Where you left me at Carmel by the sea”
- Kitty Wells

11/19/2024

Menu from our first day 12 years ago

We are OPEN!

11/19/2024

The countdown begins...just a few more hours!