Napa Restaurant

"I need to talk to you" she said "... not on the phone! let's meet for dinner!" Hours later, over a Röschti at the Restaurant Schmiede (RIP), II said yes, "Yes, I'll travel around the world with you!" That was about a year ago. Now we each got one of ...

... views across and down in Napa Valley. After four wineries, we were ready for supper. We stopped at Yountville and were lucky enough to get a table at the Bouchon restaurant in Yountville. After a tasty meal we headed down to Pentaluna for the ...

... we headed to downtown Napa, where we proceeded to act like deadbeats. We had some really, really good Mexican food at this little restaurant, including the owner thanking us personally for coming in. Then we moved to a wine tasting. Well we paid $5 to ...

... Tom was willing to share his passion for wine and this winery with us. We ate at an Italian Restaurant in Napa and drank a 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon (mainly) that Enid produced from her cellar.  It was from Beaulieu winery, where ...

... price so I would get some more bottles from there to take home with me. By the time I finished looking at the wineries it was early evening so I found a hotel (also expensive) and just went to a nearby restaurant for dinner and a couple of ...

... favorite places to eat is the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in St. Helena. The experienced students run the restaurant and provide an incredible gourmet dining experience. Of course, California has several other great wine areas besides Napa and ...

... and head to Napa and Sonoma the next two days. But first we joined Alice, Josh and Paige for dinner at a wonderful new restaurant called The Cosmopolitan in downtown San Francisco - every morsel melted in our mouth! But I digress - on to Napa! Mixing ...

... Bocce at the Hotel. For the evening we had reservations at Bottega, the earliest we could get was 21:15. Bottega is the restaurant of Michael Chiarello, a Food network chef that won an Emmy Award with his show 'Easy Entertaining'. We had to wait for ...

... as he closed the deli. We drove on to Sacramento where we met up with Patrick, a fellow Sandy interned with. We went to a restaurant where we had tapas, or appetizers, and the flavors of each dish left us wishing we were hungrier and could eat more. ...

... nous sommes allés dans un grill très sympathique et ma foi très bien agencé. D’un côté du bar se trouve la partie restaurant et de l’autre, bah la partie bar. Non sérieux, pour un bar dans une ville comme celle-ci, il y avait une bonne ...

... me with jewelry for Christmas while sitting at the bar. :) We drove by the Culinary Institute of America which has a wonderful restaurant, Greystone. It is run by the students and is trully a fantastic place to eat. We finally made it to where we ...

... Faithful geyser, a national park centered around an old grist mill, and COPIA (the food museum which houses a reputably good restaurant with Julia Childs' namesake, although we didn't eat there).  The two were pretty fun, but the first two ...

... a bit.  BUT...the entrees were great, and the desserts awesome.  Still...I had hoped for better from a highly rated Napa restaurant. Anyway...tomorrow we leave California and are bound for Lake Tahoe and the lights of Reno!  Bye Napa...it ...

... out a mere two and a half hours later. As for food, Ubuntu is a must - a starred vegetarian restaurant that opened last year in Napa. Chanterelle carpaccio, calcot and lemongrass soup, fabulous bean stew and delicious grits. Well worth a visit, as is ...

... from the airport. Having missed the last bus to Stinson Beach, I had my dad pick me up at the Dipsea Restaurant, a family favorite located right in Mill Valley, just before Shoreline Drive (Highway 1) gets exceedingly windy. My family had organized ...

... picked up our "Hot" car-see picture and headed for Napa.  When we arrive there we were starved and went into the Marriott Restaurant at the Hotel.  It was excellent and we had a rehearsal dinner party going on just adjacent to us that provided ...

... on our way to dinner by 6:00pm.  We had a truly stupendous meal this evening -- best of our trip -- at an Italian Restaurant recommended in several of our guide books.  All three of us universally agree that this meal was our culinary zenith in ...

... a bit more, I think, as it seems in line with ours.  We then went to dinner at Don Perico’s, a local Mexican restaurant.  It was great – I had shrimp fajitas and Chris had enchiladas, three different kinds.  We also had a nice ...

... was more than we spent on anything else the entire trip. Ah well. Lesson learned. One last thing we did in Napa that night was to go to a gourmet vegetarian restaurant called Ubuntu. We had heard a lot about it and were really looking forward to it. As it ...

... 60!!  We made it to point Reyes station and had a bite to eat at a fun little organic & local restaurant. (That's the way they do it there....) We looked at the clock, and decided to try to head to Point ...