Where the
forest meets
the table

Restaurant Beck sits on the headland above Whale Cove, a protected habitat refuge on the central Oregon Coast. The dining room faces the water, and the terrace runs out above the rock, so the cove is in front of you through dinner.

Depoe Bay is the whale watching capital of the Oregon Coast, and the cove is one of the places gray whales come closest to shore. Through the summer they feed just beyond the surf line. In winter the weather turns and the swell breaks against the headland below the windows — the light goes silver, and the room fills with it.

It changes all evening. Fog burning off the water, the tide working through the cove, the tree line going dark on the far point while the sky is still bright. We think it is the best view from any restaurant on the Oregon Coast, and we have never been talked out of it.