Staying in Napa for three nights early March. We haven’t been there for years. I’ve read a “million” posts and then some and can’t decide. If you had three dinners and three lunches where would you...

My wife and I are going to spend a night in either napa valley or sonoma valley in early April; it will be a Sunday so reservations should not be too big a problem. I am trying to choose between Beltane Ranch in Kenwood/Glen...

Spending a week with Santa Rosa as the base. Enjoy Sonoma best, but will head up the coast for Mendocino Wine and could use some dining tips there. All suggestions, meals and price points welcome.

Making a trip to Napa/Sonoma. Planning one lunch in napa and one lunch and dinner in Sonoma. Any recs? Thanks.

My wife and I will be visiting in April and wanted to take a day for a wine country tour. There appears to be a multitude of tours available, which confuses me. Do any of you fellow Chowhounds have any tours you recommend for...

So, I’m getting time off for the holiday, which means I am heading out of town (too much stress, not enough vacation). My fiance and I are planning to get a nice b&b and relax in Calistoga or the surrounding area. Any...

The very best meals I’ve had in the US were at La Toque, in Rutherford. I can’t recommend it highly enough. The space is so welcoming, the wait-staff so top-notch in every way, Ken Frank’s food so spectacular,...

I have received them from vendors. Unoriginal mass-produced national brands with nothing wine country about them unless Walmart recently bought all of wine country. The portion size in each package is ridiculous and they are not...

good wineries, serving excellent food at an appropriate price/quality ratio — a way to experience the good life in the wine country. All of this in an easy day trip. Am I dreaming?? I have no strong preference for what kind...

As the economy continues to challenge my residence in the bay area, I find myself wanting to see and experience (at least in part) the wine country. As is always the case, a few personal complications repeatedly keep me away and...

I was going to recommend that too- we had a fantastic meal at Martini House.... I would consider it to be Wine Country...its such a really great town, I like it better than Napa or Sonoma...for shopping at least :)

to be crowded and has terrible wine/service. Viansa is lovely, expansive, has decent wines, and has its own gourmet food store with high-end picnic foods. There are a lot of wineries with picnic grounds; you just have to check...

Yeah, the wine country talk is on the SF board (officially declared to encompass the “nine Bay Area counties” which include Napa and Sonoma ... Mendocino sneaks in sometimes). In St. Helena, one of the newish kids on...

I discovered both of these places last summer and have been back for lunch several times (haven’t been for dinner). I go out of my way to eat there if I’m nearby. Glen Ellen: Olive & Vine, 14301 Arnold Drive,...

gotta say you’re right. Martini House (I avoided it as it looked too chic) but when I happenend in, food was superb, staff knowlegeable, interested and sociable. The wine list interesting enough that we didn’t bring...