https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/05/20/looking-back-on-nepenthes-75-years/

Depending on where you sit, on deck or inside at the edge of the world, it can feel like the bow of a boat. Located on the coast of Big Sur, overlooking a breathtaking expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Nepenthe, a restaurant established by Bill and Lolly Fassett in 1949, is a “Valhalla,” characterized in mythology as a place of near-perpetual food, drink, pleasure.

The property was previously owned by Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, who had married in 1943 and fell in love with the view while their driver, a Mr. Joseph Cotton, was ferrying them from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Four years later, as part of their divorce settlement, the property had gone to “Rita Hayworth Welles,” the name recorded on the deed.