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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Restaurant Redd Sued Over Wrongful Death By Scallop Some unfortunate news out of Yountville: 10-year-old fine-dining establishment Redd, owned by chef Richard Reddington, is facing a lawsuit in the 2014 death of 61-year-old Larry Sacknoff. The former television sportscaster from San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Valley Wine Train Sold To Seattle Company Two weeks after we learned of a possible $5 million civil suit against the Napa Valley Wine Train related to that PR nightmare last month involving a group of black woman who were
SF News Women's Book Club Plans To Sue Napa Valley Wine Train For $5 Million Somewhat predictably following a media firestorm around the unceremonious removal of 11 East Bay women from the Napa Valley Wine Train for allegedly being loud whilst drinking their wine, the group has engaged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Of Black Women Say They Were 'Humiliated' By Removal From Napa Wine Train A group of 10 African American women and one white woman whose book club goes on an annual wine-tasting excursion to Napa were reportedly treated unfairly aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bottlerock Food Stage to Feature Dominique Crenn And Snoop Dogg This year's BottleRock up in Napa (May 29-31) is going to feature a Williams-Sonoma-sponsored food stage, and as Eater tells us, the chef talent includes Dominique Crenn, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Mina, Tony Gemignani,
SF News What Is Going On In Napa?: Body Found In Freezer, Also More Details About Vineyard Shooting Though mentioned in brief yesterday in Day Around the Bay, it's time to turn our full attention to the fact that Napa seems to have gone from quiet to crazy in the span
SF News Napa County Wildfire Scorches 3200 Acres And Counting In One Day A wildfire that broke out around noon yesterday in Pope Valley and Butts Canyon, northwest of Lake Berryessa in northern Napa County, has grown quickly in the 21 hours since, burning a reported
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Organizers Still Haven't Paid The Stagehands There's some tension up in the North Bay surrounding last month's BottleRock music festival, and 142 stagehands who worked the event still haven't seen the money that's owed them. As the Press-Democrat is
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Is Coming Next Week, But Not All of Napa Is Too Happy We first told you about BottleRock Napa Valley back in February, and we're guessing some of you are going. It's basically a Coachella for the older set, with the demographic expected to skew
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa Valley: Should You Go? Sandwiched between Booneville Beer Fest (May 4) and Bay to Breakers (May 19) on our already packed May drinking calendar, BottleRock is a festival that fits music, drinking, being out in the sun
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Truck Overturns In Napa, Spills Bottles All Over Highway 29 Tragedy on a Napa valley highway this morning after a wine truck overturned on Highway 29, spilling glass bottles out on to the roadway. The crash occurred around 6:40 a.m this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Holiday Indulgences: The 12 Days of Christmas Dinners at Meadowood If you've got the means, or if you're going to be up in Napa and need a special-occasion date place between now and December 19th, look no further than the 12 Days of
SF News Napa Police Dispatcher Faked Her Cancer, Got Donations From Friends A crazy story just surfaced from the Napa Valley Register about Dannille Vanderpool, a police dispatcher who claimed to have both ovarian and brain cancer and subsequently scammed her way into free childcare,
SF News Chilly Nights Kill Sonoma County Vineyards No! Due to the awesome unseasonably cold weather the Bay Area has experienced over the last few months, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of Sonoma County's $400 million vino crop has succumbed
misc Coi and Ugbuntu Make NYT's Top Ten List Sure, these places look like the types of fine dining establishments none of us could afford. Nevertheless we were delighted to read in this morning's New York Times ("Coast to Coast, Restaurants That
misc SFist Gift Guide Giveaway -- NapaStyle We already expounded the rustic virtues of Michael Chiarello's NapaStyle: a place that helps you get that Napa Valley look, feel, and taste. (Speaking of Chiarello, what happened to his show on KQED?
SF News Airline Passengers' Rights Group Taking Off It's the middle of July, and many of us have summer travel ahead of us. It's a good time to check out the state of the airline industry. The Napa Valley-based Coalition for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
SF News Cycling: The Prologue Sets the Stage Clip in sports fans, between the weather and the Amgen Tour of California (TOC), it's going to be a great weekend for cycling in the Bay Area. Whether you're tackling Mt.Tam on
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
SF News Ding Ding! The San Francisco Treat It turns out Rice-A-Roni actually a San Francisco treat -- the family of the guy who currently runs the Napa Valley Wine Train ran a pasta business in the Mission in the 1930s,
SF News The Only Thing Missing from the Napa Valley Dirt Classic was Bush</a> Seems that ole W was in Angwin for some mountain biking this weekend, but for some reason he didn't show up at this year's Napa Valley Dirt Classic. Too bad for the POTUS,
Arts & Entertainment The Grapes of Path Usually when we think of Napa, we think of Range Rovers and froofy wine-tasting tours that inevitably get sloppy and end with a brutal hangover and two cases of overpriced Chardonnay. But this
