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Napa Valley Wine and Food Village, Cairdean Estates, launches Art Program

artist Israel Valencia

Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s  Wine & Food Village, reports that it is unveiling an art program with an estate-wide exhibition in conjunction with the Rosgal Gallery (“Rose-gal”) Gallery.

Anticipating the 2015 opening of Rosgal Gallery, Cairdean has integrated the artists’ work throughout the property and among the Estate’s wine and food offerings.

Owners Edwin and Stacia Williams have invited several leading and emerging Napa Valley artists for their premiere exhibition and artist’s reception including Wade Hoefer, Israel Valencia, Teri Tito and Matt Torrens plus guest artist Ryan Sorrell, hailing from Texas, to display their fine art including paintings, photography, foil mosaics and sculpture.

artist Matt Torrens

Art lovers can view the art of Rosgal Gallery along with the Cairdean Vineyard’s Tasting Room, Butterscots Bakery, Deli & Culinary Market, The Farmer & The Fox, and Cairdean’s Michelin Bib Gourmand Award-winning gastropub.

ABOUT CAIRDEAN ESTATE:

Cairdean Estate, Napa Valley’s Wine & Food Village, is a new, essential destination for California’s Wine Country. Celebrating the ever-entwining worlds of wine and food, Cairdean Estate has onsite a tasting room open daily to the public, a private, by appointment only tasting room, a 2015 Michelin Bib Gourmand Award winning gastropub,

Interior

The Farmer & The Fox, serving dinner nightly, and Butterscots Bakery & Deli, offering sandwiches, salads, pastries, baked and frozen desserts, fresh-baked breads and rolls for breakfast and lunch daily. Menus for both venues are created by San Francisco Bay Area favorite and Michelin-recognized Chef Joseph Humphrey. Both restaurants serve beer, wine and artisan craft cocktails.

Butterscots Interior

2015 will see the completion of the Wine & Food Village with the opening of Rosgal Gallery, to feature rotating exhibitions, and Redolent Mercantile, a retail experience in finds exclusive to Napa and even California. Upon completion in 2015, the Cairdean Vineyards Winery, designed by Juancarlos Fernandez and Jarrod Denton of Signum Architecture in St. Helena, will boast extensive wine caves and the largest grass roof in Napa Valley. “Cairdean” means “friends” in Scottish Gaelic and captures the heritage of owners Edwin and Stacia Williams while upholding their belief that wine and food are multi-sensory experiences best enjoyed among friends and loved ones.

artist Teri Tito woodwork

artist Ryan Sorrell

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H29 delivers Great Wine in Bottle and on Tap with High Design

Stephen Chew likes to say that he is not a professional restaurateur. But with several years of success and multiple restaurants in his portfolio, one might want to question that premise. The newest project launched by him and his partners is called, H29 Coffee and Wine Bar, located in Burlingame, California (South of San Francisco and North of Palo Alto).

The cafe was named after the historic Highway 29 in Napa Valley, and the wine connection does not end there. The decor is sleek and industrialized, but in a warm and breathy wine-country theme. The rooms are divided in general between a streamlined “to-go” coffee shop which stays fairly busy during the day, and a larger restaurant and wine bar which serves food and wine for those who want to sit and take their time.

Says Stephen, “This space was originally another one of our restaurants, which we moved to another location. Then we used it as a kind of pop-up for Thai ‘river food.’ The food was good, but it took too much work to explain to people the difference between it and regular Thai food. So we decided to gut the space, event to the ceilings, and do something really different.”

One successful difference is that they have brought to the upscale town of Burlingame, flowing with tech and finance money, an affordable and stylish wine bar. Of course they have an extensive selection of vintages from which to chose, but what stands out most is their inexpensive yet high quality selection of wines on-tap. These includes labels such as Hahn and Liberty School.

The food is intriguing, and one of our favorites is the Cauliflower Risotto with Grilled Shrimp. The dish is made without rice, and uses the cauliflower as its base. The flavors mixed together have an appealing bite, and are quite appealing.

For anyone on the San Francisco Peninsula looking for a great glass of wine in a cool environment with tasty food and coffee, we recommend H29.

H29 Coffee and Wine Bar

1300 Howard Ave

Burlingame, California

(650) 342-2992

Tap 415 brings Open Design, Creative Menu, and Beer to San Francisco Westfield

It would be easy to call the new Tap 415 a gastropub. But we think that they want to stretch their wings a bit farther than that well-filled restaurant niche. First of all, it is created by the same people who come from Twenty Five Lusk, one of San Francisco’s most popular and creative restaurants, helmed by Chad Bourdon & Chef Matthew Dolan .

Second, it is located on the top floor of the Westfield Centre mall in downtown San Francisco, just blocks from Union Square. The top floor is reserved for some of the best or flashiest restaurants in the Centre, such as celebrity chef Martin Yan’s M.Y. China.

Third, the design and colors are open, sleek, and somewhat reminiscent of the Golden Gate Bridge (not an easy feat to pull together, especially in an upscale mall and including dozens of flat screen televisions).

Finally, the food and drink are… well… interesting. And we mean that in the best possible sense. Just take a look at some items from the Bar Bites menu.

REUBEN TATER TOTS
caraway salt, sauerkraut, russian dressing

AGED CHEDDAR MAC ‘N CHEES

HOUSE PICKLES
local seasonal vegetables, mixed brines

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS
pork butter, black pepper honey

BACON WRAPPED MINI FRANKFURTERS
dijon, beer onions

NEW IDEAS FOR A NEW WORLD