Napa Travel Blog

For those not familiar with California cuisine, dining at ad hoc in Yountville (just north of Napa) may come as a surprise. California cuisine is often defined by not only the fusion of cooking genres, but also by using only locally sourced fresh ingredients. By the very nature of using only what is...

The Carpe Diem wine bar adds new pizzaz to downtown Napa nightlife Sieze the day and visit the hip new wine bar Carpe Diem that just opened this month in downtown Napa. It’s the brainchild of three young wine-lovers, sommelier Steve Distler who’s a New York transplant, and local kids Scott...

Iron chef fans, your hero is here in the Bay Area: Masaharu Morimoto opens Morimoto Napa this weekend in the now-hot Riverfront development downtown. Iron Chef Morimoto Cooks Napa Cuisine The menu will be as varied as you’d expect from this multi-talented chef, but Morimoto’s announcement...

Experience winemaking history at Ehlers Estate If your heart sinks when you pull into a winery parking lot and see a football field-sized parking lot crammed with tour buses belching exhaust, you may be tempted to give up on Napa altogether. That would be unfortunate, because the old Napa is still there,...

When people started calling Yountville “Kellerville” I got a little concerned. Thomas Keller is certainly the most famous chef in Napa, and yeah, he’s amazing. But variety is the spice of life – and certainly of dining, no? So it’s exciting to highlight two new non-Keller...