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Category Archives: Restaurant
Emmy Kaplan: Patrón of the Arts
For Emmy Kaplan, the proprietress of both the San Francisco and Sonoma, California iterations of Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack, the secret ingredient to a good cocktail is “freshness.” Fear not for Emmy’s punk rock cred, however, a favorite among Bay Area musicians, artists and foodies alike, the Shack (as it’s colloquially known) has not been Michael [...]
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Left Bank: Lunch on the Gauche
If you ever want to get in the good graces of your editor, take him or her to lunch at the Larkspur’s convivial French brasserie, the Left Bank. Part of a chain also represented in Menlo Park, San Jose, Pleasant Hill and San Mateo, the restaurant is something of a gustatory homage to La Rive [...]
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La Salette
Apparently one piece of local news went entirely unreported in ye olde IT: the Chunnel, that subterranean thoroughfare that links Paris to London beneath the English Channel, now has a stop in Sonoma. Well sort of. If you want a bit of Parisian sidewalk fare take a step into La Salette, nestled just a brisk [...]
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Plaza Bistro
I try to avoid having breakfast alone as often as possible. Not only does it determine the kind of day I’ll have, but reminds of the lonely night that preceded it. When my usual dining companion, The Contessa, awoke in Napa too hungover to join me (the traitor), I had only my work for consolation. [...]
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Depot Hotel
“You can stay for dinner but you can’t stay the night.” Yeah, I can’t tell you how many heard that during my dating days, but it’s a good rule of thumb when visiting the Depot Hotel. The name is a bit of a misnomer, seeing as the First Street West landmark is one of [...]
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Ledson Hotel
“Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse,” British critic Cyril Connolly once wrote.
Sadly, the man never had the opportunity to dine at the Ledson Hotel where his fellow countryman chef Darren Robey has created a splendid wintry menu that evades the facile gags about English cooking by borrowing heavily from the [...]
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Rin’s Thai
Area street maps don’t show it, but locals have long known of a shortcut that leads from downtown Sonoma directly to Bangkok. Here’s the trick: head east on East Napa Street to number 139, enter, eat. Now, it might only look like an elegantly preserved Victorian home, but trust me, it’s a portal to Southeast [...]
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The Glariffee
Having recently become a Sonomanid, that is to say, a resident of burgeoning winetown Sonoma, CA, I am frequently pointed to aspects of our town’s authentic experience. When a comely young EMT from the welcoming committee tested my Sonoma mettle asking if I’d ever had a Glariffee, my first inclination was to say coyly “Not [...]
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Amigos Grill and Cantina
Yes, I too was once naïve enough to think that “Amigos” was simply Spanish for “friends.” Just off the elbow of Highway 12, I learned that the word is a local idiom for “mass quantities of amazing Mexican food awaiting your leisurely consumption – eat now!”
Family-owned and operated Amigos Grill and Cantina has been a [...]
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Nick’s Cove: The Long and Winding Road to a Burger and Brew