We like to feature regular mom and pop operations that are the mainstay of family dining. Most of these restaurants offer inexpensive well prepared food that fills you up and tastes fabulous! We're not talkin' foo foo here. With one or two exceptions these are casual, friendly family run restaurants that have been in business for years.
Sonoma.net
celebrated our 12th anniversary last month. We opened in Healdsburg in July
of 1995 when the web was in its infancy, grey page backgrounds were the norm,
and an image on a page was a novel idea. The web has grown up and so have
we (check out my blog). We are still here to serve the
local community and hope our next 12 years will be as filled with innovation
and excitement as the last 12. Have a happy holiday season.
Check
out the happy Sonoma Sheep. The few early rains we had in November and December
did their job well and grasses and wild flowers are filling the vineyards,
hillsides, and pastures all over the county. On the human side, workers are
busy pruning the vineyards that are still shaggy from last year's growth.
In the wineries, the winemakers and crews are getting ready for a new season.
Sonoma.net recommends several events in the spring that are wonderful chances
to meet the winemakers and get to know more of the smaller wineries.
Passport to Dry Creek Valley The 2009 Passport weekend will be held April 25 & 26 The first Dry Creek Valley Passport took place the last weekend in April of 1990. There were 19 wineries participating and only a few hundred passports were sold. With 43 wineries participating in 2008 and 4800 2-day Passports sold, and with 45 wineries participating in 2009 it’s clear how much this event has grown. Passport has grown by word of mouth and press coverage. Attendees continue to tell their friends, relatives and even strangers about how much fun they had at the event. Participants travel from all over the country to attend Passport. From Texas to Pennsylvania, from New York to Arizona…they make their way to the Dry Creek Valley, certain to have their Passport stamped! Media who attend often write articles highlighting the delights of Passport. It's too late to buy tickets for this year, but if you wish you were driving around Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley tasting wine this weekend, make sure to get into the lottery for tickets for next year. If you get inspired to start your own Sonoma County vineyard estate, you can check out the site at drycreekvalleyland.com for some great real estate listings in Dry Creek Valley.
Almost everyone enjoys looking at real estate. We've all got to live somewhere, after all, and looking at property in magazines, online, and in person is fun recreation. These days, resting our eyeballs on a computer screen is as close as many of us will get to moving into a fabulous new house whether it's in a vineyard in Healdsburg or near the town square in Sonoma or walking distance from the restaurants in Railroad Square in Santa Rosa. A new map search tool that makes real estate more fun is produced by a company called RealBird and offered on this site by Healdsburg Sotheby's International Realty. It's loaded with features which can slow the loading time a little, but once you've started searching with a map-based real estate tool, you won't want to go back to the old way. Check out our Santa Rosa Real Estate Search.
This is a friendly community website. We would love to hear from you about
seasonal topics such as: Where do you like to take day trips in Sonoma County?
Do you have a favorite restaurant you'd like to review or recommend? How about
a great dentist? Or favorite entertainment venue? Contact Dave
or Janie Roberts via email or phone us
at 707-869-1884. We'd love to hear from you!
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