P30 is chic, cheap comfort food in Sebastopol with a familiar roadhouse vibe. Chicken and waffles? Please.
Jackson's Bar & Oven: Casual, family-friendly spot focused on dishes from the kitchen's wood-fired oven from Syrah's Josh Silvers. Late night/cocktails.
Pizza in Sonoma and Napa: Rosso, Diavola, Mary's Pizza Shack, NY Pie, Mombo's, Old Chicago, Red Grape and many more.
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.
With a menu that reads like a Sicilian love letter, former Tra Vigne Chef John Franchetti's newly opened Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar ain't your average pie shop. The remodeled space in Santa Rosa's Creekside Center focuses on paper-thin prosciutto, fresh-made tapenades, signature salads, antipasti and bubbling wood-fired pizzas
Giovanni's Pizzeria in Cotati: Good Friday night grub.
Located just steps from Santi, Diavola (which means devilish in Italian) serves a selection of antipasti (a seafood plate with squid, shrimp, mussels and clams; house made burrata; local tomatoes with gorgonzola and a vegetable plate) along with nine wood-fired pizzas that range from a simple zucchini flower and buffalo mozzarella 'Margherita' to a Ligurian clam and herb pizza or caper, anchovy and hot pepper pizza. The aptly-named Diavola pizza is topped with N'duja (a spicy Calabrian salami), arugula an Stracchino cheese.
Peter Lowell's in Sebastopol offers up fresh, biodynamic, vegan and flexitarian fare.
Cursing this second strike-out at the Napa newcomer, I called in my late-afternoon safety--the one valley spot that would definitely be open, definitely be packed and almost certainly have pizza (fig or not) to console my bruised karma: Bistro Don Giovanni.