Villa Grande
Villa Grande, CA · Food & Drink
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Graton's Underwood Bar & Bistro Sold After Nearly 24 Years to Lo & Behold Owners
Underwood Bar & Bistro — Restaurant Sold After Nearly 24 Years. Matthew Greenbaum has sold Underwood Bar & Bistro, the Graton restaurant he has run for nearly 24 years, to Sean Kelley, Tara Heffernon and Laura Sanfilippo, the owners of Lo & Behold Bar + Kitchen in Healdsburg. Greenbaum, 65, will stay on through New Year's Eve 2026, his last official day at the restaurant he built into a gathering spot for local winemakers, restaurant workers and neighbors.
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5 Best Restaurants in Richmond, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Richmond, California — a city where the Bay’s salt air drifts through neighborhoods old and new, where murals bloom on brick and stucco, where the clang of shipyards and the laughter of children echo across parks and avenues. Here, the skyline is a patchwork: cranes and cranes, eucalyptus and palm, each block humming with the stories of those who built, rebuilt, and keep rebuilding. Richmond is a crossroads — of Black, Latino, Asian, and white, of newcomers and old-timers, of artists, activists, and dreamers who refuse to let the city’s spirit fade.
bayareatelegraph.com
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Willits News
Sonoma’s hottest new tasting room has a three-Michelin-star secret
When Mac McQuown and winemaker Jeff Baker founded Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyards & Winery in 2004, food was integral to the wine brand’s identity from the outset. First, there were farm-to-table lunches with seasonal produce from the winery’s garden. Then, there was Edge, a private supper club and restaurant in downtown Sonoma, where diners could enjoy Stone Edge Farm’s wines alongside cuisine from chef Fiorella Butron.
allamericanatlas.com
allamericanatlas.com
5 Best Restaurants in Napa, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Napa, California — a valley where the morning mist clings to the vines, where sun-warmed stone and weathered wood cradle a thousand stories, where the laughter of winemakers, the hum of harvesters, and the quiet pride of families echo between rolling hills. Here, the architecture is a patchwork: Victorian facades, rustic barns, glass-walled tasting rooms, and the gentle sprawl of olive groves. Napa is a crossroads — of old-timers and newcomers, of chefs who chase the seasons and farmers who coax life from the land, of dreamers who believe that food and wine can be a kind of poetry.
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thechalkreport.com
Bacigalupi Vineyards Comes To Town
At this difficult time for wineries, one California family-run winery decided to do a change of marketing tactics and come out and see their customers. Bacigalupi Vineyards, from the Russian River Valley section of Sonoma, sent out owners Pam Bacigalupi and daughter Nicole for meet-and-greets, and Dallas was on the list.
SFGate
sonomasun.com
Kathleen Hill: Hungarian Dinner/Dancing, No Local Crab, Thanksgiving Dinners in Valley Restaurants
Sonoma’s Tokaj Sister Cities Committee is always thankful for the lives it has changed through its winery intern exchange program. This biennial dinner, featuring Hungarian dancing and performances, is not the stuffed Bell pepper that some elementary school cooks forced us to eat once a week, that I can still smell and taste to this day.