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Senju Sushi in Windsor offers a taste of Japan

{July 26th} 155 Views - 1 Comment

Senju looks like a bento box. The small space is done up in blonde wood walls, with the rectangular room divided into cozy compartments by wooden half-walls. Accents include wood tables and chairs, and a wood sushi bar topped with a wood pagoda-style roof. Even the accents look like shiso leaves lining a bento box [...]

Gourmet Goddess Graces Geyserville

{July 22nd} 195 Views - 1 Comment

Mummy, what’s for dinner? That’s what you might ask as you’re driving by the Isis Oasis Sanctuary at the southern entrance to Geyserville these days. Because a life-size Egyptian mummy has just popped up on the roadside, and she’s acting as an unofficial Goddess for an entirely unexpected dining experience in Sonoma County. It’s a [...]

Get Your Paella On with 18th Annual Catalan Festival

{July 12th} 323 Views - 2 Comments

It’s a one-pot wonder, even if that pot is the size of a wading pool. For professional paella chefs, it seems, the larger the pan, the better the dish. You can check out that theory at the 18th Annual Catalan Festival being held July 24 and 25 at Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards on Hwy. [...]

Bistro M is a Top-Notch Taste of France in Windsor

{July 1st} 174 Views - 0 Comments

When Restaurant Mirepoix revamped its concept last November, emerging as a high-end, multi-course prix fixe format, some fans of the downtown Windsor landmark lamented the loss of the more casual, classic French dishes that chef-owner Matthew Bousquet used to serve. By January, however, Bousquet and his wife Bryan (she’s also the restaurant’s wine director and [...]

Cooked with Love… and a Little Lavender

{June 23rd} 192 Views - 1 Comment

Through one of the wettest, coldest springs in Sonoma history, the property managers at Matanzas Creek Winery had more worries on their minds last month than just late bud break for their grape vines. When, they wondered, would their lavender bushes blossom? With hundreds of shrubs, and the upcoming 14th Annual Days of Wine and [...]

Hi-Ho, The Dairy-O, The Chef Takes The Cheese

{June 21st} 329 Views - 1 Comment

Chef John Ash was looking for something different when he planned his brand new booth for the Windsor Farmer’s Market. And he found it in a most ordinary food. At his new Hot Cheese, debuted last Thursday, grilled cheese sandwiches take center stage. As in that molten, melty classic of everyone’s childhood, buttered bread and [...]

Chinois Puts Extra Funk into Fusion

{June 10th} 166 Views - 2 Comments

It’s an idiosyncrasy, perhaps – but when I look at a menu or drink list, I immediately hone in on what strikes me as the most bizarre dish. Weird ingredients? I want it. Offbeat presentation? Bring it on. To be honest, the more unappealing a recipe might seem to be, the more I covet it. [...]

Taste More This Year at Taste Alexander Valley

{May 26th} 289 Views - 2 Comments

If exploring Sonoma’s many wine tasting festivals usually means a virtual drenching in the good grape, this year’s Taste Alexander Valley event gives us something extra to help sop it up. Food, glorious food. In a new twist, the annual winefest weekend being held June 4-6 emphasizes how vital edibles are for celebrating special wines. [...]

Medlock Ames Tasting Room now open

{May 18th} 418 Views - 2 Comments

The rain slowed them down. That, and an increasingly ambitious design plan, including a pair of custom-made, high-style refrigerators that stand like sentinels in the tasting room of the new Medlock Ames Alexander Valley Store and Bar. Yet despite torrents that pelted the Sonoma County landscape throughout the winter, the space debuted May 15, just [...]

2nd Hopmonk Tavern in the town of Sonoma

{May 6th} 298 Views - 1 Comment

What’s more satisfying than a frosty, delicious beer on a hot day? Two beers. Now, thanks to brew guru Dean Biersch, we in Sonoma County will have just that — twice as many cold, refreshing mugs to lift, just in time for summer. That’s because Biersch is opening a second Hopmonk Tavern in the town [...]