After a full day of wine tasting all over Napa, we settled in to dinner at Bouchon, a Thomas Keller restaurant that I love. There’s a Bouchon Bakery in New York that Ken and I go to all of the time, but their menu is limited compared to what this Bouchon offers. We started off […]
After two wineries, we took a break and drove to St. Helena for lunch at French Blue: The restaurant is known for their architecture and has won some awards for their design: We started with some shared morning buns: Delicious salad with bibb lettuce and fresh vegetables: And a beautiful, rustic halibut prepared with potatoes, […]
On Friday morning before we met up with all of the other girls to head back to Napa for the weekend, John, Angie and I walked from our hotel to the Ferry Building to get our morning coffee. Afterwards, we weren’t that hungry and decided to go on a walk to Tartine Bakery (and we’d […]
Our dinner at the Inn at Meadowood was really wonderful – Angie, John and I did the tasting menu that included a lot of fun dishes (including our first amuse bouche, a small puffed pocket that resembled a Totino pizza roll). We had a great view of the golf course, fun conversation (including awkward pauses […]
On Christmas Day, we went with Ken’s family to Argyle Steakhouse, the steakhouse on the resort’s property. We had a big dinner with Ken’s extended family and ate a ton of good food before going to Ken’s parent’s suite to open gifts. I started with the Caesar salad: For our entree, Ken and I both […]
