As Route 112 meanders along the northwest edge of the peninsula, dining options get sparse. Joyce’s Blackberry Cafe is a welcome oasis, delivering on its name with blackberry barbecue sauce, shakes, pie, and particularly excellent pancakes. The truly hungry can take on the massive Sasquatch burger.

This cafe near Lake Crescent stands out as a good alternative to the overpriced tourist fare available inside the national park. Granny’s serves classic diner food — biscuits and gravy, patty melts, sweet potato fries — made with care.

The youthful buzz at this Port Angeles bar is fueled by microbrews, craft cocktails, and first-rate pub food, including sliders, tacos, shepherd’s pie, and fish-and-chips. The burger selection alone is one of the more robust in the area.

Port Angeles’s top breakfast destination is this narrow downtown diner, which bakes its own cinnamon rolls and serves inventive takes on omelets and French toast, perfect for fueling up before day trips. It’s currently open for takeout only, with the hopes of ramping up to normal service over the next few months.

This Port Angeles institution was transformed into a pilgrimage site for “Twilight” fans after Bella and her vampire boyfriend dined here on their first date. Pastas, pizzas, and other Italian classics are prepared with finesse and served in a pleasant, casual dining room that does in fact make a good date-night destination.

The Olympic Peninsula’s longest-established restaurant, located halfway between Sequim and Port Angeles in a roadside cabin filled with antique-mall bric-a-brac, is shrine to old-fashioned small-town hospitality. There’s an emphasis on seafood — the oyster stew and cioppino are specialties — but diners can also get meaty classics like bacon-wrapped filet mignon.

For a taste of the sea, this straightforward oyster bar is the place to go in Sequim. Along with the changing selection of oysters, it serves steamed mussels and clams, clam chowder, and, in season, Dungeness crab. For a decadent evening, start by slurping some bivalves here and then head next door to Tedesco’s for dinner.

Sequim’s top Italian option aims to make everybody happy. The casual but stylish dining room feels right for both family dinners and date nights, and the menu is designed to suit a range of palates, offering pizza, old-school red-sauce dishes (lasagna, eggplant parm), and more sophisticated options like pillowy mascarpone gnocchi and Thai-spiced fettuccine alfredo.

Set on an herb farm just outside Sequim, Nourish is a rustic idyll that feels at once traditional and trendy. Locally sourced, organic, gluten-free ingredients form a seasonal menu that includes salads, burgers, grilled meats and fish, and multiple vegetarian options. Of course, part of the pleasure here is strolling around the gardens before or after a meal.

This Sequim institution (with a Silverlake location) dishes out high-quality, high-quantity breakfasts like clockwork. The menu includes eggs done more than a dozen ways, but the real claim to fame is pancakes, ranging from classic buttermilk and buckwheat to custardy German-style.