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Fifth Annual Artisan Cheese Festival

by chas1 year ago in Deals.1 Comment

Are you fond of cheese? If so, the Sheraton Sonoma County in Petaluma is hosting the Fifth Annual Artisan Cheese Festival from March 25-28 2011. This is a great chance to enjoy a four-day cheese extravaganza in the area that “boasts California’s largest concentration of artisan cheese makers”. The weekend begins on Friday with farm tours (although these are currently sold {…}

Perfect in Petaluma

by timz1 year ago in Itineraries.1 Comment

Often the first town visitors come to when leaving San Francisco for the wine country, Petaluma is a hip city: small-town feel, amazing food scene, and surrounded by organic farms and ranches and vineyards. Here’s a suggested day in Petaluma: Start at Della Fattoria, the gathering spot for locals in the know. This bakery is one of the best in {…}

2nd Hopmonk Tavern in the town of Sonoma

by careysweet2 years ago in Food.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 of Sonoma, showcasing small-batch seasonal {…}

Burgers-Hella Good

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.3 Comments

President Obama went out for burgers with Joe Biden in suburban Virginia today, and it immediately put Ray’s Hell Burger in google-heaven. With that in mind, I ask: if the Prez and the Veep went out for a casual, delicious lunch in Sonoma County, where would they go? If I was buying, here’s where I would take them: Pick’s Drive {…}

Battle of the IPAs

by Jenntern3 years ago in Insiders Guide.1 Comment

Sonoma County may be most well-known for its impressive output of wine varietals such as Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel; but Sonoma County micro-brewed India Pale Ales  carry their own prestige as the some of the nations finest.  In fact, one of our local brewmasters, Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing Company, is credited for the invention of {…}

Loves music, loves to dance…loves Hopmonk

by Beth3 years ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

Whether you like to dance or not, Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol is a great place to listen to music and shuffle your feet around. We went there Saturday night with some friends to listen to Batacha, a group that plays Latino music. Now, I’m not that great of a dancer, but it was fun just watching the “pros” on the {…}

Beer in Wine Country?

by kerih3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Take a tour through the North Coast breweries with writer Bob Ecker. Ecker explores local microbreweries in Napa, Mendocino, Humbolt and Sonoma Counties. To read the beer tour click here.

Cheap Beer and Trees to Hug

by Jenntern3 years ago in Insiders Guide.1 Comment

Armstrong Redwoods and Johnson’s Beach California redwoods attract tourists from the world over- yet Sonoma County’s own community of ancient giants remains dwarfed by the shoulder-height vineyards canvassing the county.  The irony! The Armstrong Redwoods State Park lies just off of 116/River Road in Guerneville.  You can park for free outside and walk straight in or take a nice hike {…}

Beer Expedition

by kerih3 years ago in Videos.0 Comments

Beer tasting at Santa Rosa’s Russian River Brewing Company. Make sure to try their Pub Grub and their Lap Dance. Lap Dance as in the hoppy, mildly sweet, pale ale.

It Takes a Lot of Beer to Make Good Wine

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

The most tired cliche in writing about Sonoma County is that Sonoma is “the next Napa” or “unlike it’s more well-known neighbor Napa, Sonoma is…” and therein follow a line of usually complimentary and true adjectives. The second most common cliche about Sonoma County is the title to this post. But cliches become that way largely because they are true. {…}