That sound of howling you heard from the Petaluma Livestock Auction Yard a while back? Happily, no, it was not an animal going to its demise. It was customers showing up at Roy’s Chicago Doggery and discovering that their beloved diner has new owners. Wait. Before you wail, too, nothing is changing. We will all continue to get the same {…}
The dinner bell is ringing in Santa Rosa, and the sound is sweet. Sweet T’s Restaurant + Bar, to be exact, which has just opened in the former Santi space at Fountaingrove Village. So it’s time to tie on the bibs, and settle in for some good, honest, sloppy Southern soul food, like Southern fried chicken served with biscuits plus {…}
We’ve been watching the former Pizzavino 707 space since it closed in August, and now have good news to report: the wood-burning pizza oven is fired up once again. Forchetta/Bastoni has opened, in a creative concept that combines two distinct kitchens and dining spaces within the 6,000 square foot building that sits in front of Sebastopol Plaza. Forchetta is Italian {…}
Celebrate with Friends, Family, and Effortless Entertaining With the holidays just around the corner, food is on everyone’s mind. What to cook for the inevitable elaborate feasts? Well, as the old joke goes, for some one of us, the best thing we make is reservations. Luckily, Sonoma County abounds with world-class chefs happy to do the kitchen magic for us. {…}
Big Bottom Market might need a bigger sign, so its owners can tack on the word “Bistro.” That’s because the tiny grocery and deli that opened in Guerneville this summer is lining up a solid calendar of special dinners, to showcase the talents of new chef Tricia Brown. There are only a dozen or so seats at the communal table {…}
Get your “Frogmore Stew” in Santa Rosa Sonoma is best known for its high-style Wine Country cuisine, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for other delicious foods, even if that’s something known as down ’n’ dirty Low Country cuisine. Such is the case with the former Santi space at Fountaingrove Village, where former Santi chef Douglas Richey is opening {…}
So long Pine Cone Café, hello Gypsy Café. And helloooo, intriguing eclectic-global menu which ranges all over from Chinese chicken salad, to chilaquiles, to fried chicken po’ boy slicked with Cajun remoulade, to a Farm Boy veggie burger on cracked wheat bun. Gypsy Café has just opened in Sebastopol on Main Street, taking over the long-beloved (though well-worn) Pine Cone. {…}
Wine is wonderful, all the time. But it’s always good to add some food to the mix, and like Mama always said, “Don’t drink on an empty stomach.” (if your mama didn’t say that, you didn’t grow up in Wine Country.) You can plan a meal before you visit the wine tasting rooms, or even better, eat as you go. {…}
When Big Bottom Market wanted to expand its deli menu and boost its biscuit business, the Guerneville grocery looked, naturally, to the Big Apple. Welcome, then, to new executive chef Tricia Brown, fresh from the Manhattan, where she interned at Gramercy Tavern and studied in the chef-training program at the Natural Gourmet Institute (though she is still loyal to California, {…}
Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven. And somehow, it’s even more delicious when someone else does the baking. Here are some of our favorite places for a beautiful loaf of bread or crazy good cookie: Wild Flour Bread, Freestone We might start simply with how to find this bakery. Follow Highway 12 about five miles past Sebastopol toward {…}
