Tag: Napa/Sonoma
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Enclos
Andrea and I were supposed to go to dinner here again, but she’s been super busy with work, so she couldn’t go, but I still wanted to go and didn’t want to cancel the reservation. So I asked our neighbor Stanford to go since he seemed interested in going out to try some other restaurants
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Valley
We visited here during our previous visit to Sonoma last August and we were both not impressed. Apparently I’m a glutton for punishment (or maybe I’m just a glutton, lol) so I decided to give it another try. Couldn’t get a reservation so I just tried a walk-in. I was given a table in the
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Dig Truffles? Foodie Experience & Truffle Lunch at Joseph Phelps
I’m not sure how I found out about this event, but since we enjoy truffles quite a bit, it seemed quite interesting. It’s actually a weekend of events, but the only one I signed us up for was the Dig Truffles? Foodie Experience & Truffle Lunch at Joseph Phelps. The main things that attracted me
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Kenzo
(this is AI generated just from the menu, haha. Using as a placeholder until I have a chance to write it up) We were up here for the Napa Truffle Festival and so I booked us for dinner here. This is the last Michelin-starred restaurant at which I hadn’t yet dined between Napa/Sonoma through SF
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Rutherford Hill Winery
We were staying at Auberge du Soleil mainly for relaxation and we literally hadn’t planned any wine tasting, but Rutherford Hill is basically right next to Auberge. We literally could have walked there in 5 minutes. There were a few options including an ATV ride up to the peak, the Skyloft, View of the Valley,
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Breakfast at The Restaurant at Auberge du Soleil
This was our second breakfast for our mini-cation here. We were again given the ginger cake. I went with the other recommendation from the GM from our dinner here two nights ago – the Smoked Salmon Pizza. This was basically a pizza crust, topped with a bit of dill crème fraîche, scrambled eggs, and then
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Auro
(WRITEUP IN PROGRESS) This place hadn’t been on my radar, but it was one the last remaining stars from wine country to San Francisco (and east bay) to the peninsula at which i had not yet eaten. It’s somewhat Californios meets Cyrus since he is from Mexico City and worked at Cyrus (as well as
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Breakfast at The Restaurant at Auberge du Soleil
This was our first breakfast here which was also a free perk since we had booked through the Chase travel portal. We saw some of the same diners as we saw at dinner the previous evening (and they were also seated at the same table). We we first given a little ginger cake dusted with
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The Restaurant at Auberge du Soleil
This was our first evening after driving up to Napa. After a lot of our meals, Andrea always talked about being able to just go up to our room right afterward instead of having to drive or take an Uber/Lyft/Waymo back. So, this was our chance since we were staying on property at Auberge du
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Pride Mountain Vineyards
Andrea and I have been visiting Pride for more than 20+ years ever since I read about a very positive review of their wines in Wine Spectator back in the late ’90s. We’ve had many other wine club subscriptions come and go, but Pride has been the one consistent one. Kristine and I have been