The Peerless Restaurant

With its theatrical warehouse/tropical decor, this upscale restaurant a few blocks from the plaza seems decidedly out of place in the southern Oregon hills, but good food is good food no matter where it's served. Flavor combinations are often complex and can seem at first to be a bit contrived (duck-confit-stuffed dates), but one bite will convince you that this is great food. Because The Peerless is out of Ashland's restaurant mainstream, it tends to work just a little bit harder to satisfy its customers, so although prices are high, dinners here are the best in town. In summer, ask for a table out on the garden patio.

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