The TOWN dinner series recently held its inaugural Blind Bottle Bash at Flambeaux Wine, featuring a friendly wine competition and sommeliers dressed in Jedi robes.

From festive prix fixe dinners and holiday teas to Christmas Eve cocktail pop-ups, here’s where to dine out in Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Mendocino counties this holiday season.

From the Dry Creek Valley farm she built with her husband, Susan Preston reveals her life as an artist: Feminist, feral and fantastical.