The location, for Los Angeles visitors, is not freeway convenient. The Barnyard sits along Highway 1, just south of the Carmel Valley turnoff. The only place in these parts approaching its style and open-air case is South Coast Village at Costa Mesa. Mrs. Pussycat's Porch is the Barnyard toy store. Yarn goods are at Bale of Cotton.
Natural foods come from Cornucopia.
One of the seven restaurants is called From Scratch. When I told a pleasant woman in a homewares store I thought the place bordered on being precious, she was horrified. No one else had complained, she said. Community of Competitors Part of Carmel's charm has always come close to cloying, a triumph of small pedestrian scale, trees in the middle of streets and restaurants with such wondrous names as Tuck Box or Toots Fabulous Lagoon. Older Carmel shopping centers are outdoors and an I. Magnin's at Carmel Plaza is the only retail establishment approaching department store size.