Boutique hotels
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Hotel Healdsburg
- Style
- Cockle-warming wine retreat
- Setting
- Sonoma vineyard country
Sonoma County Eating, drinking and dancing
Restaurants
(+1 707 938 3634)
The Girl & the Fig
Open until a comparatively late 11pm at weekends, this warm, woody and wonderful restaurant blends art deco style with French provincial and modernist twists, with a gallery for Gaugin-meets-Legere-style local artist, Julie Higgins, comfy banquettes and staff who know everything about the broad, French-influenced seasonal menu.
110 West Spain Street Sonoma, CA 95476
(+1 707 433 3311)
Cyrus
Just around the corner from Hotel Healdsburg, this double Michelin-starred restaurant is nigh-on impossible to get into. If you're not lucky enough to squeeze into the diary, console yourself with a cocktail made from seasonal ingredients by the expert mixologist.
29 North Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448
(+1 707 431 0300)
Dry Creek Kitchen
Multi-Michelin-starred chef Charlie Palmer is a Sonoma foodie hero, and his restaurant at Healdsburg Hotel brings diners from far and wide to sample an ever-changing seasonal menu.
317 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448
405 First Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476
El Dorado Kitchen
A Michelin-starred bistro serving good honest food in a light-filled streamlined setting, with a sunny patio garden – famed for its Sunday brunch.
(+1 707 996 3030)
(+1 707 933 8160)
Harvest Moon Café
It may look like little more than a small and unassuming room – but gourmet locals insist that this low-key eatery is where it’s at. Run by a couple, and with a menu that changes every night, it serves some of the finest home-style food in the city.
487 First West Street, Sonoma, CA 95476
Bars
(+1 707 996 3030)
El Dorado
The groovy, minimalist bar at the El Dorado Hotel gets busy towards the end of the week and is open until midnight.
405 First Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476
(+1 707 996 9779)
Harmony Lounge
An airy, open-plan modern restoration of a traditional public house in Sonoma Plaza’s Ledson Hotel, serving fireside antipasti and wines from the Ledson winery.
480 First Street East, Sonoma, CA 95476
Cafés
(+1 707 938 2884)
Swiss Hotel
Although it makes more of itself as a wine bar than a café, but this smart hotel in Sonoma’s main square has a famous hot chocolate recipe known only to an octogenarian lady brewing away out the back.
18 West Spain Street, Sonoma, CA 95476.
(+1 707 996 6645)
The Sunflower Caffé
Lined with art and boasting an enchanting garden area, Sonoma Plaza’s long-standing snack spot serves a wide café-style menu and great breakfasts.
421 First Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476
