Heat & Eat Rescue: These Local Restaurants Are Serving Up Family Meals To Go

By Heather Irwin
Barbecue chicken with a salad and curry rice from Red Bee BBQ in Santa Rosa. (Conner Jay/The Press Democrat)

Family-style meals with hearty comfort food, upscale cuisine, wine pairings and cocktails to go are giving new hope to some restaurateurs during the pandemic.

“It’s brought a new light to the restaurant,” said Christine Rizzo-Murphy, manager of Ricky’s Eastbound in Santa Rosa.

With restaurants closed to in-room dining and no real idea about what kinds of delivery and pickup food might appeal to shelter-in-place customers, owners Rick and Linn Bruno pivoted away from the individual portions on their regular menu and looked to their existing Heat & Eat menu with crowd-friendly dishes like beef stroganoff, chicken piccata and Noni’s Lasagna.

“It’s so good. It’s all made fresh,” Rizzo-Murphy said. “We’re definitely going to continue to do family meals after this is all over.”

Other restaurateurs are reporting similar success with these order-ahead dishes. Having only one meal to create allows for simpler ingredient ordering, a smaller staff, shorter hours and a clear view of how much income is coming in each day.

Make mom (or dad) happy, feed your neighbors or send a package to someone you love and give them a night away from the stove. They’ll thank you for it, albeit socially-distanced.

Most of these meals require advance payment by credit card and are available for pickup or delivery several days a week (usually Wednesday through Saturday). Ordering is often online, but some offer phone orders. Also, hours can change. Call ahead or visit restaurants’ websites or Facebook pages for details.

Sofia Englund contributed to this article. 

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Santa Rosa

Boudin Bakery: Boudin has three Family Meals for take-out: sourdough pizza meals with salad, sandwich and salad meals and bread bowl soup and sandwich meals. Family Meals for two are priced at $25 or four people at $45.99. Family Meals are available daily and can be ordered for pick up at boudinbakery.com. 2345 Midway Drive, Santa Rosa.

El Coqui: Daily Puerto Rican family platters available for pick up, including their signature Pollo al Horno, as well as Picadillo entree (seasoned ground beef) and Palomilla entree (sirloin steak). 24 hours advance notice required. Some delivery to areas outside of Santa Rosa. Menu and ordering online at direct.chownow.com/order/14942/locations/21078. 400 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

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Red Bee BBQ: Big old family-style barbecue with an international flair. Traditional brisket, pulled pork and chicken along with St. Louis Ribs, teriyaki chicken breast, baked beans, potato salad, cornbread, fried rice and Mexican street corn. Pickup or delivery through Grubhub. 750 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa, 707-541-6536; 8970 Brooks Rd S, Windsor, 707-836-4099, redbeebbq.com

Ricky’s Eastbound: Family pizza meals are available every Thursday (place order on Tuesday) with three par-baked pizzas (cheese, pepperoni, olive + pepper), Caesar salad and fresh baked cookies (2 adults, 2 children). Add Ricky’s favorite craft cocktails to any order. Find the full menu online at rickyseastbound.com. Call 707-536-6606 or email RickysEastboundOrders@gmail.com to place order. 5755 Mountain Hawk Dr, Santa Rosa.

The Spinster Sisters: It’s like a restaurant at home, with Chef Liza Hinman’s creative menu ideas. Each week features different Family Meal combos (for two — order multiple for larger parties), like Spinster’s fried chicken with creamy mac and cheese, braised collard greens, tomato + bacon, buttermilk biscuits, and German chocolate cake for dessert. Wine available to pair. Pre-order online at thespinstersisters.com. 401 S A St, Santa Rosa.

Windsor

Kin: Offering curbside pickup and delivery (via Doordash) of family-style dinners, serving 4-6 people. Dinners include choice of pasta (Pesto, Bolognese, Marinara, Alfredo, Mac and Cheese) with a side salad; and choice of meat (grilled chicken with mushroom demi glace, Chicken Cacciatore, braised short ribs) with risotto or polenta and side salad. 740 McClelland Dr, 707-837-7546, kinwindsor.com.

Red Bee BBQ: Big old family-style barbecue with an international flair. Traditional brisket, pulled pork and chicken along with St. Louis Ribs, teriyaki chicken breast, baked beans, potato salad, cornbread, fried rice and Mexican street corn. Pickup or delivery through Grubhub. 750 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa, 707-541-6536; 8970 Brooks Rd S, Windsor, 707-836-4099, redbeebbq.com

Sweet T’s: Ribs, BBQ tri-tip, whole fried chicken with quarts of sides including coleslaw, chicken andouille sausage gumbo, brisket chili and whole pies for dessert. Desserts should be reserved one day ahead; and dinners require pre-order (1 hour notice for whole tri-tip orders). There’s also a full list of cocktails to go. Menu at sweettssouthern.com/menu; call to pre-order at 707-687-5185. 9098 Brooks Rd S, Windsor.

Healdsburg, Geyserville

Single Thread: Three-Michelin-star Single Thread offers carefully curated nightly to-go menus like the Pork Tonkatsu (for parties of 2, 4, or 6) with Sonoma pork Tonkatsu, Japanese potato salad, Yuzu cabbage, miso soup, Koshikari rice, and Japanese cheesecake. Meals typically sell out, so order ahead online at exploretock.com/singlethreadfarms. 131 North St, Healdsburg.

Valette: While his daily to-go offerings with wine pairing are a la carte, on Sunday, Chef Dustin Valette does dishes for four like coffee-spiced sous vide New York steak for 4 with kale and radicchio salad, baked mac n cheese, red bliss potatoes, butternut squash, Valette house made bread, and cinnamon spiced pumpkin bread pudding. Menu at valettehealdsburg.com. Order via email or phone: Info@ValetteHealdsburg.com or 707-473-0946. 344 Center St, Healdsburg.

Healdsburg Bar and Grill: Offering family meals two days per week: Buttermilk Fried Chicken Dinner (with Caesar salad, mashed potatoes, gravy, glazed Brussels sprouts and chocolate chip cookie bars for dessert) on Saturday nights and Rib Feast (features 3 pounds of “perfectly smoked” baby back ribs with Cowboy baked beans, coleslaw, sweet potato fries, and chocolate chip cookie bars for dessert on Sunday nights. Available anytime after 4:30 p.m. Order online hbg.hrpos.heartland.us/menu, or by calling 707-433-3333. Orders can be placed up to one week ahead).

Petaluma, Rohnert Park

Butcher Crown Roadhouse: Weekends are for feasting and menus change every week, but expect things like a tri-tip feast or their famous Piri-Piri chicken. Online ordering and menu at toasttab.com/butcher-crown-roadhouse. 1905 Bodega Ave, Petaluma.

Sally Tomatoes: Weekly family specials include dishes like Chicken Cacciatore with creamy risotto, steamed artichoke with lemon aioli, hearts of romaine salad. $11.95/person (4 minimum) with no delivery fee. Add a bottle of Martin Ray Cabernet Sauvignon for $20.Order before 2:30 p.m. with delivery from 4-6 p.m. in Rohnert Park, Cotati, Penngrove, Petaluma and Santa Rosa. Phone orders only. 707-665-9472, facebook.com/sallytomatoesrp

Stockhome: Swedish comfort foods, like meatballs, smoked salmon, pancakes and rye bread, and chicken with potato gratin, are combined into family meals that serve up to 4 people. Order online for pickup. Vegetarian/Mediterranean family options are available, too, like meze, falafel, veggie, rice, baklava combos, as well as individual servings. And you can add Swedish candy to your order! 220 Western Ave, Petaluma, stockhome-108965.square.site.

West County

Backyard, Forestville: Fried chicken boxes (five, nine or 20 pieces) with biscuits, honey butter and a seasonal side (currently coleslaw) are available to pre-order by calling 707-820-8445 on Mondays between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pick up is on Saturdays between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Also available for pre-order and pickup: 3-course chicken pot pie for two ($30) and a quart of chicken bone broth soup ($12). 6566 Front St, Forestville, backyardforestville.com

Dinucci’s Italian Dinners: Family-style dinners available to go include quart-size minestrone soup, ravioli Bolognese and spaghetti Bolognese. Meals come with bread and a garden salad. Four-course Easter menu (available family-style) includes minestrone soup with warm sourdough bread, a garden green salad, a side of pasta with Bolognese sauce and traditional Easter ham with honey and cranberry glaze, roasted red potatoes and sautéed greens. Adult Easter Baskets with five “Boozy Bunny Shots” are available, too. 707-876-3260, dinuccisrestaurant.com. 14485 Valley Ford Rd, Valley Ford.

Fork Roadhouse & Catering: Family meal menu changes weekly but always includes choice of chicken pozole verde or fresh mixed greens with persimmon, pomegranate, chèvre and candied pecans and flourless chocolate cake with whipped cream and berries. Last week’s entrees: Moroccan white bean ragout ($50) with ginger, lemongrass, local lamb meat balls, roasted pepper-mint raita and preserved Meyer lemon (vegetarian option available); Maple rosemary pork chop ($50) with creamy polenta and gourmet mushroom gravy; Salmon picatta ($50) with lemon, white wine, capers, buttermilk mashed potatoes and season vegetables. Order online by Thursday noon for pickup on Fridays between 3-6 p.m. 9890 Bodega Highway, Sebastopol, 707-634-7575, forkcatering.com.

Kenwood, Sonoma

Black Bear Diner: Offering specially priced family meals (starting at $19.99) — including breakfast combos and family beverages to share — in addition to a limited menu with Black Bear Diner favorites such as Ribeye Steak and Bob’s Big Bear Burger. Find the menu and place your order online. 201 W. Napa St. #34, Sonoma, blackbeardiner.com. Open 7am-8pm daily.

Delicious Dish: Dinners for two ($25) and dinners for four ($45) available for pickup Monday-Friday Menu changes daily with different national and international flavors — Puerto Rican, American Chinese, Asian Fusion, Baja, Greek, BBQ… Order online or call 707-721-4231 to order. 18709 Arnold Dr., Sonoma, deliciousdishsf.com/dinners.

Palooza: Family meal specials are announced on social media, you can also call the restaurant for updates: 707-833-4000. Kids menu available, too. 8910 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, paloozafresh.com.

Celebrity Chef Opens Take Out Restaurant At Cornerstone Sonoma

By Heather Irwin
Dishes from Folktable at Cornerstone Sonoma. (Courtesy of Folktable)

Black truffle chicken hand pies, steak tartare with fried capers and hash browns, wild mushroom tartine and fried chicken with hot honey are on the opening menu of Folktable, a new restaurant from Top Chef finalist Casey Thompson.

The takeout-only restaurant at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma is the first of several eateries planned by the Napa-based celebrity chef.  Thompson announced plans to open another restaurant, Georgette, last February in the former General’s Daughter. Due to the pandemic, that was put on hold. Folktable replaces the short-lived Palooza Beer Garden and Eatery, which opened last spring.

Like the gardens, the new restaurant falls under the growing brand umbrella of Sonoma’s Best Hospitality Group owned by developers Ken and Stacey Mattson. Thompson took the reins as executive chef for SBHG last year, working with familiar Sonoma icons including Ramekins and Cornerstone Gardens. The portfolio also includes Dirty Girl Donuts and Sojourn Cellars, with plans to launch Motha Clucka (a breakfast spot in Boyes Hot Springs) and Thompson’s Georgette restaurant next year.

The intriguing Folktable menu overseen by executive sous chef Melanie Wilkerson also includes tasty dishes like salt and pepper fries with malt vinegar aioli, chicken soup with pancetta, open-faced Dungeness crab sandwiches, low-braised lentil soup, an Angus beef burger, banana cream pie, and buttermilk carrot cake. Wilkerson and Thompson met while at Inn at Rancho Santa Fe.

While it may seem an unfortunate time to launch a restaurant, organizers say that the opening date had long been decided and staff hired, and their takeout concept works well with new guidelines. Open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, visitors are able to eat on the sprawling Cornerstone property, enjoying the winter gardens of this beautiful but long-challenged space.

23584 Arnold Dr., Sonoma, 707-356-3567, folktable.com.

Did You Know Sonoma County Has Its Very Own Ghost Town?

By John Beck
The ghost town on Wingo along Sonoma Creek south of the town of Sonoma. (JOHN BURGESS

This article was originally published in Sonoma Magazine in 2017. 

If Wingo is a ghost town, then the woman standing in front of me must be an apparition — in a pink top, black yoga pants and a blond ponytail. Shannon seems like an odd name for a ghost, but you never know.

On the other hand, Mike, the shirtless bald guy in cut-off Levi’s tinkering nearby in his junkyard, might actually qualify as a specter.

Maybe it was the vagueness about his last name: “If you find it out from somewhere else, that’s fine,” he said. “But I’m not the one to give it to you.” Or his story about the last stranger who wandered down the same dirt road I did, standing in the same spot at about the same time of day: “I told him, ‘You’ve got 10 seconds before I put a bullet in your head.’”

Welcome to Wingo, where no one wants you to know their name. Where people come to get away. And where lookie-loos aren’t welcome.

The “town,” as it stands now, is a long-forgotten cluster of cabins, most of them built in the 1800s, and a creaky train trestle along the narrow Sonoma Creek in the middle of nowhere. On a map, picture the tidal marshlands south of Sonoma town, east of Sonoma Raceway, north of Highway 37 and west of Interstate 80.

If you stand on a tuna can, you can see for miles. Except when the winds whip up on the state-owned salt flats to the north and a massive white wall of sand engulfs the abandoned town.

The rolling lift bridge on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad over Sonoma Creek next to the ghost town on Wingo. (JOHN BURGESS / The Press Democrat)
The rolling lift bridge on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad over Sonoma Creek next to the ghost town on Wingo. (John Burgess / The Press Democrat)

“The dust plumes go up 600 feet high in the air. It’s horrendous,” said Shannon Kiser, who has lived in a house adjacent to Wingo for 20 years. Her husband, Darrell, is a fifth-generation Kiser. His family has farmed 1,500 acres south of Wingo for the past 50 years, now leasing it to hay farmers. She’s the blonde in the yoga pants.

“We get a lot of people who walk in (Wingo) and kind of think they own the place,” she said. “It’s like, ‘Are you lost?’ Nope, they say, just cruising around. ‘OK, well, you’re in my front yard.’”

But back in 1847, Wingo boomed. It was called Norfolk then, a popular stop for the 37-foot paddle-wheel steamer Sitka that ferried passengers from San Francisco to Sonoma, eventually stopping at Sonoma Embarcadero near what is now Schellville, where horse-drawn carriages would take travelers onward to Sonoma.

Duck hunters and fishermen were the most frequent visitors. A 1908 article in the daily San Francisco Call describes a record 44-inch, 36-pound striped bass caught in Wingo.

In 1876, the experimental “prismoidal railroad” arrived, supporting train cars on a monorail, but it never made it to Sonoma. By 1880, a conventional two-rail line took its place. Wingo became known as the spot where the track split in two, one line going straight to Sonoma, the other veering right to Calistoga. By the early 1900s, travelers would leave downtown Sonoma at 6:10 a.m. and arrive in San Francisco at 9 a.m. At about this time, the railroad company renamed the town Wingo, but no one seems to know why.

“Some people say it’s because of how windy it gets here and some say it’s from the Windigo — a mythological beast — but I haven’t delved too much into it,” Kiser said, referring to Native American myth.

Sonoma County historian Arthur Dawson thinks it might have to do with all the winged migrating birds or the mosquitoes that once bred in the marshes before the land was cleared.

Fellow local historian Bob Parmelee heard that it might be an homage to Wingo, Ky., but he likes this theory better: “Someone once said, ‘If you’re down there and there are a bunch of mosquitoes and you slap the back of your neck — wham! Wingo!’”

Newt Dal Poggetto, who still practices law in Sonoma at age 93, would go fishing with his father for striped bass in Wingo in the late 1920s and early 1930s. “I remember watching the bridgetender shining his lantern to signal for the train to stop,” he said. “You’d see guys getting off the train with sardine cans. They’d come to go fishing.”

By 1937, when the Golden Gate Bridge opened, ferry and passenger train ridership began to drop off, and Wingo started to decline. Over the years, as the town became deserted, people still found their way there. In the 1950s, when historian Gaye LeBaron attended Sonoma Valley High School, the town was nothing more than an alibi, she said, when “watching the boat races at Wingo” really meant going to “park” in the dark.

In 1977, four of the cabins, often called “Raccoon Hiltons,” were destroyed in a fire that swept through town. In the 1980s, a rag-tag band of Sonoma bon vivants founded the Wingo Yacht Club Regatta as a lark.

By 1994, an elderly widow named Alice Mann was considered the sole resident of Wingo. She and her husband bought their cabin for $1,000 in 1956. Living alone, she pined for the arrival of swallows every March. She was likely gone by the winter floods of 2003, when 300 tons of debris backed up the creek and flooded the region for miles.

Today, freight trains still roll through Wingo. Kiser’s three kids often scurry up the backyard lookout they call “the fishing tower” to watch the train cars roll by.

The best way, should you dare, to get to Wingo is by taking Millerick Road south from Highway 121, past Larson Family Winery, until it dead ends. Then walk more than a mile down a dirt road until you get to the train bridge and you can see the “Wingo” sign on the old bridgetender’s station.

“Most people have never heard of Wingo and we like to keep it that way,” said Jeremy Heinemann, who grew up in Schellville. He’s spent a lot of time fishing for stripers and sturgeon along the creek. He named his “gypsy blues” band Wingo Moon one night while stargazing from the creek.

The late singer-songwriter and harmonica player Norton Buffalo tried to make Wingo famous at least twice — first with the song “High Tide in Wingo” and then with his sidekick Roy Rogers in their “Ain’t No Bread in the Breadbox” music video filmed in Wingo. Like two itinerant bluesmen wandering the Mississippi Delta, Buffalo and Rogers roll into town as the train pulls away. As they start to play, women and children poke their heads out of the old cabins, running along rickety wooden boards to join in song.

It’s a far cry now from the Wingo of today. On a quiet Monday morning, Mike Verbish (Shannon Kiser offered up his last name) is rearranging the junk in his front yard. A TV inside his cabin is barely audible. Before you can make it to his door, you have to get past a beat-up DeLorean kit car and a rusty Jet Ski balanced atop a speedboat, surrounded by mountains of old truck parts.

At some point, not long after sharing how Bud Lime goes down easy on a hot day, Verbish, probably in his 60s, looks out past the cabins and the bridge to the wide expanse of nothingness and says, “It’s OK here. But if you don’t like quiet, you won’t last long in Wingo.”

Where to Go Foraging for Wild Mushrooms in Sonoma County

By Carey Sweet
Mushrooms picked on the forest floor of Salt Point State Park. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat)

This article was originally published in Sonoma Magazine in January 2019. 

Mushrooms typically start popping up throughout Sonoma County about a week to 10 days after the first good soaking, and can keep growing for months: as long as it keeps raining, we can pick mushrooms all the way through May. If you’re in the mood for some fungi foraging, here are a few local experts that are happy to let you in on their secret shroom spots and make sure you don’t eat anything poisonous. To learn more about local mushrooms, click here.

15 Stylish and Well-Fitting Face Masks from Sonoma County Stores

By Karen Kizer

With face mask mandates likely to remain for the foreseeable future, it’s good to know where to find the best ones. By best, we mean well-fitting, pretty, naturally-dyed, kid-sized, edgy and with awesome prints and designs. Here’s just a sampling of what’s available in Sonoma County stores (online, too). In the crazy year of 2020, masks make for great stocking stuffers. Click through the above gallery for details.

These Local Distilleries Ship Cocktail Kits to Your Doorstep

By Dana Rebmann

Pandemic restrictions and precautions will change the way we celebrate the holidays this year, but that doesn’t mean we don’t get to celebrate at all.

If you’re hunkering down at home, or are looking for safe ways to spread a little holiday cheer, a growing list of Sonoma County distilleries are now mixing up some of their best drinks and delivering them right to the doorstep. Kits contain everything you — or the lucky recipient — need to mix delicious drinks at home.

Click through the gallery for some of the best curated cocktail kits available in Wine Country. All are available for pickup or can be shipped throughout California.

13 Luxe Holiday Gifts from Sonoma County Stores

By Karen Kizer

Of course, it’s the thought that counts but sometimes ordinary gifts won’t do. If you’re looking to give a gift that’s also a work of art, Sonoma County stores have got lots of options. Here are fantastic finds made by artisans from the Bay Area to Brooklyn to Morrocco—click through the above gallery for details.

Guy Fieri Raises $21.5M for Restaurant Workers, Praised for Doing ‘More Than Congress’

By Heather Irwin
Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal bumps elbows with celebrity chef Guy Fieri at Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. Fieri brought family, friends and his 48-foot Guy’s Smokehouse Stagecoach mobile kitchen to feed first responders and hospital workers lunch. (photo by John Burgess/The Press Democrat).

As thousands of California restaurant workers were laid off this week due to mandates shuttering in-person dining for the remainder of the year, celebrity chef Guy Fieri is being lauded as a hero of the industry for his $21.5 million Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

To date, the fund has helped more than 43,000 workers by offering one-time payments of $500, according to its website. Though the fund is now closed to new applicants, some say that Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers during the pandemic than the United States Congress.

A recent Newsweek article quotes a Tweet from author Dan Price as saying, “Guy Fieri has raised $21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers, which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months.”

According to a survey by the National Restaurant Association, released in September, one in six restaurants — or a total of 100,000 establishments nationwide — had closed “either permanently or long-term” six months into the pandemic, leaving nearly 3 million employees out of work. Relief in the form of a $120 billion piece of legislation called the RESTAURANTS Act (Real Economic Support That Acknowledges Unique Restaurant Assistance Needed To Survive) is currently stalled out in Congress. It would help small restaurants stay afloat by giving them funds for payroll, leases and other urgent needs.

Sonoma County’s health officer issued a new stay-home order on Thursday to counter the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in the county. The new order will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, and is set to expire Jan. 9. It will end in-person dining at local restaurants, including outdoor dining.

As local restaurants once again face the difficult question of whether to stay open for takeout and delivery only — which few can survive on — or closing altogether, hope is slowly slipping away that help is coming in any meaningful way.

Let’s hope Guy starts another fundraiser soon, and that much-needed economic relief arrives to local restaurants, or we’ll likely see many closures in the next few months.

Sol Food Coming to Petaluma? Plus Other Sonoma County Dining News

By Heather Irwin
Sol Food San Rafael
Sol Food restaurant in San Rafael. (Mike Chappazo / Shutterstock)

The new stay-home order, which comes into effect on Saturday, Dec. 12, will limit restaurant service to takeout and delivery until Jan 9. These are difficult times for local restaurants, wineries and breweries, so make sure to support your local businesses. Here are some more news from the local dining scene:

Sol Food Coming to Petaluma? After years of rumors that San Rafael’s iconic Puerto Rican restaurant might expand to Petaluma, those rumors seem to finally be coming true. The restaurant’s owners recently posted a picture on Facebook of the former, now-empty Sauced space in Theater Square, confirming they’ll be moving in. They promptly got 751 comments, many from their excited northern neighbors lavishing praise on their food. Stay tuned for more details.

 

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Stark’s returning to regular menu: If you’ve been missing the Stark’s steakhouse menu, they’ll be bringing back your faves this week. Bad news? The popular Brazilian Backyard barbecue has ended.

So Shady: In the “What in the world is wrong with people” category, news broke this week that Shady Oak Barrel House in downtown Santa Rosa had their front window smashed and electronic equipment stolen on Dec. 7. Owners have put up a crowdfunding effort at gofundme.com.

Where to Find the Best Latkes, Sufganiyot and Other Hanukkah Treats in Sonoma County

By Heather Irwin
Strawberry jelly filled donut or sufganiyot for Hanukkah at Grossman’s Noshery and Bar in Santa Rosa. (Heather Irwin/The Press Democrat)

Happy Hanukkah, Y’all!

Whether you celebrate the festival of lights or are just a fan of jelly doughnuts, latkes and rugelach, you can fill up on the tasty treats these local eateries are offering for Hanukkah.

Grossman’s Noshery and Bar: If you really want to do it up right, Grossman’s has your complete Jewish mother’s meal with brisket, braided challah, latkes, apple sauce, pomegranate molasses-roasted carrots and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) for $75 for two people. Available Dec. 10 through 18, pick up cold for reheating. Offered a la carte: matzoh ball soup, creamy smoked fish chowder, chopped liver and onions with gribenes, pickled and smoked fish, knish, kippered salmon and latkes. If you have a sweet tooth, choose from challah bread pudding, rugelach, hamantaschen, black and white cookies and artisan halvah. Details online at grossmanssr.com. 308 1/2 Wilson St., Santa Rosa.
 
City Garden Doughnuts and Coffee: Sufganiyot and Hanukkah sprinkles on cake doughnuts. Pre-orders only, open Friday through Sunday. 1200 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, citygardendoughnuts.com.

Penngrove Market: Wood-fired roasted chicken, potato and veggie latkes, matzoh ball soup and green salad. Call to order, 707-753-4974. 10070 Main St., Penngrove, penngrovemarket.com.

Pop-Up Hanukkah from Park Avenue: This local caterer is offering green salad with tahini apple cider vinaigrette, caramelized onion-braised brisket, roasted winter vegetables and jelly-filled challah doughnuts for $45 per person. Add-ons include roasted sweet potatoes with z’ataar and labnes and traditional latkes with applesauce and nondairy sour cream. Details at parkavecater.com/chanukah

Zoftig: Yummy potato latkes (with applesauce and sour cream) and chocolate rugelach. Order online for takeout at zoftigeatery.com. 57 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa.

 

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