![]() ![]() ![]() Think super-casual, with a deli counter hung with menu boards, but the Italian owner keeps recipes as delicious and true as a much fancier restaurant. ![]() East, Sonoma, 996-9779, /TheZinaLounge.Ĭharm lives and breathes at this longtime locals’ hangout anchored by a fireplace to warm your chilly bones. For winter, the line-up includes temptations like prosciutto wrapped Hama Hama oysters Rockefeller baked with Bucheret goat cheese, Peruvian purple potato leek soup with Point Reyes blue cheese chicken fritter, and seared ahi over mushroom rice with butter poached turnips, strawberry-olive tapenade, and pickled ume plum sauce.Ĥ80 First St. The setting is fine-dining posh, trimmed in gleaming wood with a flickering fireplace flanked by leather couches. A wine educator presents each wine and shares the story of each Zina and Ledson bottling.Ĭhef Yoshiharu Sogi also crafts sophisticated, full-course-sized dishes with Japanese, French and Sonoma County influences for his three-course lunch ($60) and five- ($125) or six-course ($150) dinners. Technically, Zina could be called a wine and food pairing, since you sit with an intimate group at a communal table in what is the Zina Hyde Cunningham Winery tasting room in the lobby of the Ledson Hotel, on the Sonoma Plaza. It’s an unusual set-up, but all the more fun for being so different. These smaller, casual spaces can make it feel like your own private party. Don’t forget lounges, too, like the popular Front Room Bar and Lounge at Santa Rosa’s John Ash & Company. Among the top spots are Farmhouse Inn of Forestville, Agriculture Public House in Guerneville and, in Santa Rosa, Stark’s Steak & Seafood or Monti’s Rotisserie & Bar.īut here are five more cozy gems to try for a crackling, ember-enhanced meal. We all have our favorite fireplace-lit places to dine during the chilly, rainy winter months. ![]()
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