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, […]
To start bachelorette festivities, Angie made reservations for all of us at Redd, a restaurant in Yountville that was highly recommended by Kristen. I started with a delicious cocktail made with a tequila base, rhubarb bitters and egg white: We had everything family style and ordered a bit of everything from the menu. We had […]
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 […]