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By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Champagne tastes on a whiskey budget? Hotel Healdsburg and CHARLIE PALMER’S DRY CREEK KITCHEN are collaborating on a new venture featuring craft cocktails, bar bites, and small-batch spirits called Spirit Bar. On the menu: burnt orange Manhattans, a…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Chef Jamil Peden, who’s done stints at Campo Fina (Healdsburg) and at the former Petite Syrah (Santa Rosa), will head up the kitchen of the soon-to-open WOODFOUR BREWING COMPANY located in Sebastopol’s expanding food- and wine-centric Barlow…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Santa Rosa’s THE SPINSTER SISTERS starts up happy hour just in time for lazy summer afternoons (and sneaking out of work a little early) from 4pm-6pm Tuesday through Friday. Seasonal $5 cocktails include white sangria with stone fruit,…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. The forecast for this week? Plenty of sunshine and great food in all parts north. Here’s your cheat sheet on all things delicious in Wine Country. Sunday June 2nd: DRAGONFLY FARM in Healdsburg hosts an open house from…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. There’s plenty of action on the coast this weekend in case any of you San Franciscans want to escape your 61-degree weather, including ROCKER OYSTERFELLER’S Oysterpalooza, beginning at 11am Sunday. The Valley Ford fest includes six bands,…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Over the next few months, the inevitable comparisons between Cyrus and the space’s new iteration, CHALKBOARD, will appear in endless food blogs, Yelp reviews, and “critical reviews” of the new Les Mars/Bill Foley restaurant. As devotees of…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. There’s good news and there’s, well, pretty good news about the opening of DIERK’S MIDTOWN CAFE (the offshoot of the brunch-tacular Dierk’s Parkside): The veggie stack is back. If you time it right you can…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. News that Santa Rosa’s ZAZU RESTAURANT will be moving to Sebastopol leaked out earlier this year, but now that owners Duskie Estes and John Stewart have officially announced their intentions to reopen at The Barlow, more details are…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. We’ve got an exclusive peek at the forthcoming menu for CHALKBOARD, the casual dining restaurant that’s replacing Cyrus in Healdsburg’s Les Mars Hotel. The menu will source much of its produce from the legendary Chalk Hill…

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Wine Country is still abuzz at the news that M.Y. China’s Martin Yan has filed for a business license in Sonoma County. Though company spokesfolks aren’t confirming the news, rumors abound that Yan is looking at…