Getting Reservations at Napa’s The French Laundry & What to Expect
It can be tough to get the reservations at Thomas Keller's French Laundry, but not impossible! These tips you will be dining on one of the best menus.
Go Wild Mushroom Hunting in California’s Napa Valley
Mushroom hunting is the one type of hunting that is on my bucket list. So, when a foraging excursion was offered through the Napa Truffle Festival I immediately signed up for a memorable fungi [...]
Have A Private Wine Tasting in Napa Valley
There are several wine related perks to owning a restaurant; sales reps are consistently leaving you full bottles of wine from the vineyards they are currently promoting, you receive [...]
16 Reasons I Got Fat at the Flavor! Napa Valley Event
It's a good day. I was invited to take the night off work to sip 100 different wines (I did NOT try them all), taste bite-size delicacies from more than two dozen well [...]
Eat Rabbit Pasta in Napa Valley. Poor Bunny.
The thought of eating rabbit brought visions of the famous scene from Fatal Attraction, where the maddened Glenn Close devilishly boils the pet bunny of Michael Douglas. My second thought? He kind [...]
Eating Braised Pork Cheeks at Michael Chiarellos
I'm not sure what makes one part of an animal more desirable than another, but there is definitely a "gross factor scale" associated with each. On a scale of [...]
Eat a Meal Cooked by a Celebrity Chef
I was nervous. The kind of anxiety that puts the "butterflies in your stomach" to shame. This was more like a hundred hummingbirds on crack fluttering about in the pit of my tummy. [...]
A Memorable French Cassoulet in Napa
Some loyal customers of ours, Trish & Dave, invited us to a Sunday night dinner. They selected Angele which is a gorgeous French restaurant that uses traditional recipes with contemporary [...]
An Anniversary Meal at Bottega in Yountville
Bottega is Michael Chiarello's, from the Food Network & NapaStyle, restaurant in Napa Valley, Northern California. I tried to make reservations a few days ahead of time, but they [...]