3 New Foodie Reasons to Revisit Yountville this Spring
I honor the French Laundry as much as the next farm to table food fanatic. When it opened in 1994, I was travel editor at San Francisco magazine, and practically levitated with excitement when I visited for the first time along with a bunch of other San Francisco staff. But some years ago, when people [...]
Tis the Spa Season: The 5 Best Spas In Napa and Sonoma
It seems lately like every hotel is suddenly a “resort” or at least includes a spa offering the latest herbal-infused therapies. But if you’re hoping for a truly therapeutic approach to relaxation or, better yet, some relief for your aching back or racing mind, that’s not so easily found. With my back and shoulders perennially [...]
Going Green in Napa At Long Last
The Napa Valley is known the world over for wine making and grape growing, but oddly, it’s never been a particularly environmentally enlightened region. For one thing, growing grapes requires a great deal of water and — unless they’re organic — quite a lot of pesticides, too. Not to mention that the sheer number of [...]
