SF News Calistoga Police Vehicle Hits 22-Year-Old Pedestrian, Leaves Her With Serious Head Injuries An unidentified 22-year woman was struck and seriously injured by a Calistoga Police Department vehicle Monday night, and the California Highway Patrol has taken over the investigation into what happened.
SF News Driver Sought In Napa Valley Hit-and-Run That Left One Person Dead The driver of a minivan remains at large after fleeing the scene of a fatal crash on foot Saturday afternoon in the Napa Valley.
SF News SingleThread, Auberge du Soleil, Madrona Inn Among Bay Area Hotels Honored In First Michelin Hotel Guide The Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
SF News Napa Considers Moving ‘Welcome’ Sign Because Too Many People Run Across Highway 29 to Instagram It A Napa County Instragam trap is causing worries that it could become a death trap, and the county is considering moving its picturesque “Welcome” sign because of unsafe behavior by motorists and pedestrians seeking pictures of it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Winemaker and Judgement of Paris Figure Mike Grgich Dies at 100 A renowned and beloved figure in the Napa Valley, Mijenko “Mike” Grgich, died Wednesday at age 100, reportedly passing in his sleep with family members at his side at home in Calistoga.
Arts & Entertainment On BottleRock Stage, Lizzo Reacts to 'Choke the Woke' Sign Outside Napa Home Lizzo gave festival-goers a stellar show Saturday night at BottleRock — performing what many said was the best set of the three-day festival, which wrapped up on Sunday. But she felt she had to comment on some signs that were posted outside of one downtown Napa home.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Yountville Restaurant Ciccio to Be Reborn Under Ownership of Meadowood Chef Chef Christopher Kostow was sad to see his favorite, go-to Napa Valley restaurant go under last year, and while he thought about reviving the space as a new concept, he's decided instead to let it live on, much the way it was.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Gets Grumpy About Napa Noise Ordinance, Insists On Going Past Curfew Twice at Blue Note Jazz Fest Dave Chappelle did his ornery best to get everyone back on stage and to keep the party going past 10 p.m. on Sunday night, during the closing moments of the inaugural Napa Valley iteration of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, in spite of a local noise ordinance.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Rejiggers Lineup For Labor Day Weekend, Adds Guns N' Roses, Foo Fighters, Megan Thee Stallion The lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley, which was postponed several times from May 2020 and is now taking shape for Labor Day weekend 2021, has just undergone some major changes.
SF News Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glass Fire Being Called Worst In Napa History, With Hundreds of Homes and at Least 20 Wineries Damaged or Destroyed While fire activity in the Glass Fire continues to be calmer than it was just days ago, the fallout from the fire is still being assessed — and the economic impacts to both the wine industry and Napa and Sonoma counties at large may be far greater than the size of the fire may suggest.
SF News Mondavi Fire Contained Quickly After Threatening Multiple Wineries A new wildfire erupted for unknown reasons in a field in the Napa Valley Thursday afternoon, nowhere near the footprint of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning to the north and west.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa To Shut Down Wineries and Indoor Restaurants As COVID Case Count Climbs Napa County is set to be placed on a state watch list by the California Department of Public Health on Monday, and that means it will have to re-close a number of businesses that have reopened there in the last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wine Cave Fundraiser Warren Dinged Buttigieg About Was In Napa One of the key takeaway tension moments getting talked about from Thursday night's Democratic candidate debate was one in which Senator Elizabeth Warren called out Mayor Pete Buttigieg for attending a recent fundraiser hosted by billionaires, with "$900 bottles of wine" in a wine cave.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood, French Laundry Reopen Following Wildfires Two of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, The Restaurant at Meadowood and The French Laundry, were impacted by the wildfires last week and had to shut down as the entire Napa
SF News Firefighter Dies Helping To Keep Fire Away From Famed Mondavi Winery As the Nuns Fire edges closer to one of Napa's most iconic wineries, a firefighter has lost his life in the process of trying to keep the fire at bay. The fireman's vehicle,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vineyards And Cannabis Farms Destroyed In North Bay Fires, Wine Harvest Was Ongoing As we wait to learn the exact extent of the damage in the ongoing Tubbs, Atlas, Nuns, and Patrick Fires burning in Sonoma and Napa counties, what is already all but certain is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Excessive Heat Turns Wine Grapes To Raisins The 2017 vintage may be a tough one for many Napa and Sonoma winemakers after last week's heatwave, which hit right before harvest for red varietals like Cabernet. The harvest had been shaping
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Xmas In September: Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Chef Lineup The lineup for the Restaurant at Meadowood's annual holiday festival of international chef talent is out, and it's yet again an impressive one. After taking 2016 off from hosting the two-week December blowout
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best, Not-Wildly-Expensive Wine Country Restaurants Wine Country, particularly the Napa Valley, is the lap of luxury of the Bay Area, and an adult playground for the wealthy from all over the US. If you've spent some time wine
Arts & Entertainment Bill Murray To Debut Classical Music, Literature Project In Napa Bill Murray, the 66-year-old actor, is also the leader of a very large cult that scrutinizes and adores his every weirdo project. The next one to obsess over will be in Napa this
SF News BottleRock Worker Killed While Dismantling VIP Tent Tuesday As crews were dismantling the festival grounds following BottleRock last weekend, a 35-year-old man working for Richmond-based Top Productions was crushed by a beam while dismantling the VIP lounge area on Tuesday, and
Arts & Entertainment Food, Cheech & Chong, The Chili Peppers, And More Food: BottleRock 2016 In Pictures by Annie Lesser This past weekend, the fourth annual BottleRock festival in Napa attracted 40,000 attendees who all came to see dozens of bands and try some of the best culinary treats
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Redd In Yountville Settles Wrongful Death Suit Over Scallop Last month we learned of a wrongful death lawsuit against the Napa Valley restaurant Redd, in Yountville, stemming from the August 2014 death of 61-year-old man a death which his family said came
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood's New Casual Spot Will Be Called The Charter Oak Back in November we learned that the very fancy, Michelin three-star Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena was preparing to open a casual spinoff in downtown St. Helena, in the space long occupied
