Napa Sonoma Food and Wine Archive

The French Laundry is lauded as one of the best restaurants in the world, and for good reason. Thomas Keller has created something truly magical here. He has created a world where every detail has been thought of to the fullest extent for one purpose: Your Pleasure. Take a look into our five-hour, seventeen-course, ten-wine meal of a lifetime.

The girl & the fig in Sonoma has perfected brunch. The restaurant is ridiculously charming with a Frenchy-bistro-meets-wine-country vibe that extends from the décor to the menu. I couldn’t stop oohing and ahhing over all the cute little touches, and virtually everything on the menu was calling my name.

Cooking with Joyce Goldstein at the Ramekins Cooking School and Inn in Sonoma: Warm Scallop and Mushroom Salad, Crab and Fennel Risotto with Meyer Lemon Gremolata, Pork with Chestnuts served with Pumpkin Polenta, Blood Orange Marmalade Tart

The Food Network will be proud to know that based on this one segment, showing off those ridiculously good looking tuna burgers, I planned an impromptu surprise trip to Napa…with Taylor’s Automatic Refresher naturally at the center of my itinerary. True Story.