Back Room Wines, the wine shop and tasting bar on Franklin Street in downtown Napa is moving to a larger space at First and Main streets.

It will continue to sell small-production California wines as well as imported wines. In addition, it will add specialty liquors.

Its wine tastings will continue to focus on special tasting events in the evenings.

Construction starts early January. Look for Back Room Wines to open at its new location this spring.

    

Oxbow Public Market catches fish vendor

Oxbow Public Market has caught its much-anticipated seafood retailer, Kanaloa Seafood, the environmentally responsible seafood purveyor from Santa Barbara.

Kanaloa will offer a full-service seafood market, providing the highest quality seafood and related items to locals and customers throughout the United States. It will feature shellfish and locally caught fish.

    

Pizza Azzurro’s new digs

Pizza Azzurro should open Feb. 1, at its new location in Main Street West at Clinton. The present location will close Jan. 25.

The new space will be 50 percent bigger and designed by Kimberly Nunn & Dan Worden of Shopworks Design, which designed the interiors of the Carneros Inn, Farm and Boon Fly.

The kitchen will be twice as big, allowing them to add appetizers and desserts, and maybe even an entrée special each night.  It sounds like a real Italian pizzeria, which offers more than just pizzas.

And it will be open Sunday night for dinner.

    

Arts Council Napa Valley to present plan

Arts Council of Napa Valley will hold a workshop to present the draft Napa Valley Community Cultural Plan Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the Napa Valley Opera House from 6 to 8 p.m.

The whole community from American Canyon to Calistoga and beyond is invited to attend the full-county “town hall” meeting.

The draft plan will be available on the council’s Web site, www.artscouncilnapavalley.org, early this month.

The Opera House is at 1030 Main St. in Napa.

    

Arts Council announces revolving exhibitions

Arts Council Napa Valley is sponsoring two new art exhibitions at governmental offices: a new Revolving Door Art exhibition at the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency at 707 Randolph St. in downtown Napa, and an exhibit through the Capitol Art Program at Senator Pat Wiggins’ office at the State Capitol in Sacramento.

Revolving Door Art is an ACNV program funded by the Jewish Community of Napa Valley. The exhibit at NCTPA will rotate every three months, with new artists featured in every show.

The public can view the Revolving Door Art exhibition during regular business hours 8:30 a.m. to  5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For more information about Revolving Door Art, call 257-2117 or visit www.artscouncil napavalley.org.

    

Napa Vintners elect Pat Stotesbery president

The Napa Valley Vintners have elected Pat Stotesbery, owner of Ladera Vineyards, as president of the board of directors for the nonprofit trade association of more than 300 member wineries.

Stotesbery and his wife Anne founded Ladera Vineyards on Howell Mountain in 1997.

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