BiteClub Eats

Morimoto opening in Napa

The first annual Fair Food Scramble

Pizzavino 707 reopens in former West County Grill space. Pizzas are the heart of the menu and Sebastopol seems willing to give the restaurant another chance.

UPDATE: Winners have been notified. If you’re not on the list, don’t despair. Hopefully I’ll get to you next time. Thanks for playing!+++++On Wednesday, July 29, I’ll invite FIVE BiteClubbers to go on a Fair Food Scramble with me. You could be among them. Oh, joy. The gameplan: If chosen, you’ll spend two hours at [...]

Haute Indian cuisine in Napa

Listing of Sonoma and Napa Indian, Nepalese and Himalayan restaurants

Hardy Wallace, a man who once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in a bumblebee suit, has been named the winner of Murphy Goode Winery’s “Lifestyle Correspondent.”   The much-publicized gig begins in early August, when Wallace will move into his rent free-Healdsburg accomodations and get down to business. His task? Spending the next six months finding new [...]

This week, we dig deep for a different kind of pastry pusher — one or two-person operations working from the backs of restaurants, in borrowed commercial kitchens and behind farm stand stalls.

Wine Shop to the Bohemian Grove.

In a competition with more twists and turns than a midnight ride over the Oakville grade, the final ten candidates for Murphy Goode Winery’s coveted “Lifestyle Correspondent” gig are pulling out all the stops during an intense three-day race to the finish line in Healdsburg. And boy are their fingers tired. In a swirl of [...]

Louisiana Legacy Cajun Catering serves up New Orleans gumbo, jambalaya and boudin in Windsor

Fresh bread, elegant wedding cakes, and a tasty cafe to have your sandwich and eat it too in Healdsburg

There’s no sound more beautiful than the clink of ice in a cocktail glass on a hot summer day. Because whether it’s 5pm or just north of noon, ’tis the season for salted rims, muddled mint and tiny paper umbrellas.

Like golden ticket winners to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, the ten remaining candidates for Murphy Goode winery’s much-talked-about $10,000 a month social-networking gig are headed to Healsburg on June 18. Over four wine-soaked days, they’ll take part in a final round of interviews, meet winemaker David Ready, Jr., and experience “hi-jinks, excursions, poker, Liar’s dice, food and, of course, wine drinking,” according the winery.

French Restaurants: Paying homage to Sonoma County’s Frenchiest of French bistros and patisseries.

Guess who’s cooking at Bohemian Grove?

West County Grill reopens

Shepos leaving Stark’s SteakhouseMark and Terri Stark are preparing for a bittersweet goodbye — longtime chef Tracey Shepos-Cenami announced to the couple that she’ll be leaving in August. “This wasn’t a short-term decision. There was months of thinking about this. They’re like my parents. But it’s been ten years and that’s a long time in [...]

What are you favorite Fourth of July foods, and where do you get them? I’ll be putting together a guide to where to go/where to get foods for the fourth — and want your input!