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Eiko’s — Celebrating Ten Years Serving the Napa Community
Longtime Napa residents may recall restauranteur Eiko Nakamura from her original restaurant, Fujiya, located in the Napa Premium Outlets. In 2011, she and business partners Rick and Mike Zaslove founded Eiko’s. In...
Napa’s Empress M — A Feast for All Senses
In 2019 owner Margaret Wong, executive chef Peter Huang, and director of operations and business development Thomas Megna joined forces to create and open an upscale Chinese restaurant in Napa, Empress M, located on the...
Napa’s Palisades Saloon — Elevating their Game
Expanding and Elevating Their Game According to Carly Bond Meyer, owner of Napa Palisades Saloon, her husband Chuck Meyer always said “I want the corner spot.” As she stepped over the fresh epoxy on the floors and sawdust...
Napa Valley’s Cooking with Karen Crouse
One of the best ways to build your confidence in cooking without a recipe is to start with salads. A simple yet savory salad can be more memorable than an elaborate entrée. Seasonal, garden-fresh ingredients are essential...
Napa Valley’s Model of Sustainability
Cherish Market Garden & Orchard Lynne Rodgers had just completed her education as a nurse practitioner when COVID disrupted her intended life path. As she witnessed the unprecedented shutdowns and closures within Napa...
Napa Valley’s Best Vegetarian and Vegan
Variations of plant-based diets such as vegetarian and vegan have rapidly grown in popularity in recent years for ethical and wellness reasons. Farmers, food purveyors, chefs, and restaurants throughout the world have...
Lettuce Cups With Beef and Horseradish Cream
A great recipe from Cooking with Karen Crouse Springtime in the Napa Valley is marked by bud break. This is when the grapevines wake up and the first leaves emerge from the dormant buds. It is the...
Napa Valley’s Best Fried Chicken And Wings
The earliest mention of frying chicken can be traced to a fourth-century Roman cookbook of Apicius. The Scottish were the first Europeans to make an unseasoned chicken dish fried in fat. On the continent of...
California Brandy House
Welcoming California Brandy House to Downtown Napa E. & J. Gallo Winery has unveiled a brand-new California Brandy House for brandy lovers and wine lovers looking to try something new. Opened in November 2020, this is...
A Day At The Oxbow
Napa’s Oxbow Public Market has served as one of Napa Valley’s revered local gathering places for great food, wine, and local purveyors since its opening in 2007. The 40,000 square-foot space is replete with vendors offering...
Let’s Do Brunch
Best of Napa Valley Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, usually served Sundays from morning to afternoon. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the word dates to 1895 in an article titled...
Cooking with Karen Crouse
As a Napa Valley grape grower and vintner/proprietor of Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards, I have come to appreciate how much this valley caters to my passions, which are centered around wine & food, entertaining, cooking,...
The Calistoga Inn Restaurant and Brewery
A Taste of Calistoga Known for its authenticity, The Calistoga Inn Restaurant and Brewery reflects the tranquil community located at the northern tip of the Napa Valley. A sojourn composed of an Inn with a detached private...
First and Franklin Marketplace
Downtown Napa's Go-To Deli, Wine Shop and Market. In June 2020, three months later than originally scheduled, owners Chuck and Carly Meyer and Michael and Claire Holcomb took a chance on opening First and...
Heritage Eats
Tripling Their Love and Commitment to Napa’s Community Ben and Ali Koenig opened Heritage Eats in Napa’s Bel Aire Plaza in 2015 to bring the valley a fast-casual, globally-inspired restaurant concept that thinks and acts...
Southside Café
Love In Every Bite A café is more than a café when the next visit cannot come soon enough. Great food plus good vibes - That’s where the wow factor comes in at Southside Café. At all three restaurants—Carneros, the...
Napa Palisades Saloon And Beer Company
Moving Full Steam Ahead Napa Palisades Saloon and Beer Company is celebrating five years in business in 2020. Owner Chuck Meyer attributes their success to his team and their willingness to remain...
Napa Valley’s Best Burgers
With Napa Valley’s most planted grape variety being Cabernet Sauvignon, it is befitting that many of the area’s restaurants have burgers on their menus. Whether made from ground beef, lamb, pork, premier cuts of ribeye, or...
Napa Valley’s Best Pizza
That's Amore! Early immigrants to the Napa Valley include Italians and Swiss-Italians, who arrived in Napa County as early as the 1860s and whose immigration here continued for many decades. This history, combined with the...
Sweetie Pies Pivots
Satisfying More Than a Sweet Tooth Toni Chiappetta took a slight detour this past spring from baking her popular pies, cakes, and cookies. The longtime proprietor of the Napa Mill-located Sweetie Pies saw a need, and she...
