High-End Fast Food Calls for High-End Groceries

Posted on 09. Aug, 2010 by Carey Sweet in Blog, Food & Wine, New in California Wine Country, New in the Wine Country, Sonoma restaurants

You know you’re in Northern California’s Wine Country when even fast food takes a Slow Food approach. It’s true: that’s fresh-picked lettuce atop your hamburgers, and those heirloom tomatoes are still warm from the sun on your BLT, when you dine at Gott’s Roadside these days. In a very un-McDonald’s move, restaurant co-founder Joel Gott [...]

Good News for Gourmets: OxBow in Napa Welcomes Three New Restaurants

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by Carey Sweet in Blog, Food & Wine, New in California Wine Country, New in the Wine Country

It’s been called a mini Ferry Building Marketplace. And right before its grand opening in 2007, while supporters cheered that it would bring new energy for the railroad track area off downtown Napa, critics liked to suggest that the town wasn’t ready for such a high-end concentration of restaurants, wine bars, farmers market products and [...]