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Collection of The Best Things We Ate in Sonoma in 2022 in a gallery layout
The Best Things We Ate in Sonoma in 2022

Sometimes you know, in the seconds after a first bite, that a dish won’t be merely memorable. It’s going to...

Collection of Sebastopol’s Oyster Cafe Is a Pearl in a gallery layout
Sebastopol’s Oyster Cafe Is a Pearl

The 400-square-foot, Parisian-style cafe at The Barlow serves oysters and sustainable seafood. Oyster is Rand’s new 400-square-foot, Parisian-style seafood cafe...

Collection of Made in Sonoma | Holiday Gift Guide 2022 in a gallery layout
Made in Sonoma | Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Local jam, honey, cheeses, and cheer to holiday tables. This season, spread goodwill to a neighbor or friend, a teacher...

Collection of A Clear Focus | Glassblower Michael Dickinson brings sparkle to the holidays at his Sebastopol studio. in a gallery layout
A Clear Focus | Glassblower Michael Dickinson brings sparkle to the holidays at his Sebastopol studio.

Entire worlds open up at artist Michael Dickinson’s glassblowing studio and gallery at The Barlow in Sebastopol. Inside the 740-square-foot space,...

Collection of Where to Eat and Drink in Sebastopol in a gallery layout
Where to Eat and Drink in Sebastopol

It would be hugely upsetting to travel to the town some consider the northernmost point of the Bay Area without...

Collection of This California Destination Has Charming Small Towns, Incredible Wine, and a Stunning Coastline in a gallery layout
This California Destination Has Charming Small Towns, Incredible Wine, and a Stunning Coastline

Sonoma has a cheese trail for the dairy obsessed, and for those craving variety, the town of Sebastopol features The Barlow....

Collection of Passion keeps flowing for Spirit Works Distillery in a gallery layout
Passion keeps flowing for Spirit Works Distillery

Spirit Works Distillery owners Timo and Ashby Marshall are celebrating their 10th anniversary making gins, whiskeys and vodka in Sebastopol’s...

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Parisian-Style Seafood Cafe Coming Soon to Sonoma County

By Heather Irwin for Sonoma Magazine The much-anticipated Oyster, a Parisian-style seafood cafe, is slated to open in Sebastopol’s Barlow...

Collection of Local terroir + European style = exceptional Northern California cheese in a gallery layout
Local terroir + European style = exceptional Northern California cheese

Much like wine, terroir impacts the flavor and style of cheese. And Northern California terroir is ripe for cheese production....

Collection of TAKE SONOMA COUNTY HOME in a gallery layout
TAKE SONOMA COUNTY HOME

From artisan soap and orchard-to-bottle olive oils and vinegars to fine art and handcrafted wine-barrel furniture, these made-in-Sonoma County artisanal...

Collection of Tips to Help Indoor Plants Thrive During Fall in a gallery layout
Tips to Help Indoor Plants Thrive During Fall

California Live’s Malou Nubla is in the heart of Sonoma Wine Country talking house plants with Kathrin Green, owner of...

Collection of 5 of the Most Interesting Winemakers in Sonoma Get Top Billing at Pax Wines in a gallery layout
5 of the Most Interesting Winemakers in Sonoma Get Top Billing at Pax Wines

At Pax Wines in Sebastopol, the harvest unfurls like a feature film and visitors can taste the results.