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Farm-to-table Modern American cuisine is the prevalent style in the Napa Valley and Sonoma County, but this encompasses both the delicate preparations of Yountville’s Thomas Keller, whose restaurants include The French Laundry, and the upscale comfort food served throughout the Wine Country. The quality (and hype) often means high prices, but you can find appealing, inexpensive eateries, especially in Napa, Calistoga, Sonoma, and Santa Rosa.
A casual storefront restaurant on Guerneville's main drag, boon eat+drink has a menu built around salads, smallish shareable plates, and entrées that might include a vegan bowl, chili-braised pork shoulder, and local cod with shiitakes. Like many of chef-owner Crista Luedtke's dishes, the signature polenta lasagna—creamy ricotta salata cheese and polenta served on greens sautéed in garlic, all of it floating upon a spicy marinara sauce—deviates significantly from the lasagna norm but succeeds on its own merits.
Foodies love this grocery for its breakfast biscuits, clever sandwiches, and savory salads to go or eat here. Everything from butter and jam and mascarpone and honey to barbecue pulled pork with pickles and slaw accompanies the biscuits, whose mix made Oprah's Favorite Things list, and the sandwiches include the Colonel Armstrong (curried chicken salad with currants and cashews on brioche).
An architecturally significant century-old bank now houses an artisanal ice cream parlor, a wine bodega, and a room with exhibits by the Russian River Historical Society. Along with the expected cups and cones of ice cream handmade from local organic dairy products, the former bank's main event, Nimble & Finn's, also sells pies, cakes, candy, shakes, floats, and coffee drinks.
On Main Street for several generations, Pat's got a new lease on life when a pop-up chef known for gooey-delicious, highly addictive Korean fried chicken (aka "Korean Fried Crack") bought the place and broadened its menu to include chicken pozole, huevos rancheros, and other international comfort food items. The setting—diner with counter and booths on one side, "dining room" with fake grass and picnic tables on the other, and plenty of cabinlike wood paneling all around—is peppy ersatz retro.
Microbrews and river views make a stop at this rough-hewn, overgrown shack enjoyable, especially on sunny days while sipping punchy-named beers like Rat Bastard Pale Ale, Dirty Rat IPA, and Donkey Punch Pils on the patio out back. The pub grub's predictable—chili con carne, garlic fries, corn dogs, hot dogs, and chicken wings starters, plus pork sliders, tacos, and several burgers and sandwiches—but reasonably well executed.
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