From the category archives:

Restaurant

Plaza Bistro

December 22, 2005

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

December 10, 2005

“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 Sonoma’s [...]

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Ledson Hotel

November 25, 2005

“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 [...]

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Rin’s Thai

November 11, 2005

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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