Sometimes your fate can be decided by a haircut. This was the case of Arturo Delgadillo, who had been working as a chef at Compadres in Yountville for 20 years when he learned the restaurant would be closing at that location.
10 chiles guajillos
Taste of the Valley: Party like it's 4706
Tillerman Teas at Oxbow Public Market hosts a Chinese New Year celebration Sunday at noon. “We’ll raise our glasses — er, cups — to welcome the new year,” the press release said, “and summon good luck with a traditional lion dance, red envelopes full of treats and an abundance of dim sum snacks.”
New site, new name for Pizza Azzurro
Pizza Azzurro shut its doors Friday night — but only at its old location on Second Street. The favorite Napa dining spot known for its authentic, thin crust pizzas and other specialties, is moving to a new, larger space in the new Wiseman “Main Street West” Building, at 1260 Main St., on Napa’s emerging “restaurant row.” Its name is also changing just a little — it will become Azzurro Pizzeria & Enoteca.
Taste of the Valley
Chef Bob Hurley and the staff of Hurley’s Restaurant welcome back guest chef Karen Crouse for a Mardi Gras dinner Feb. 5, 5-10 p.m. and reservations are required. The Fat Tuesday prix fixe menu is $65 (including wines) and consists of Oysters Bienville, crawfish cocktail, red beans with rice, jambalaya, beignets and New Orleans coffee. There will be plenty of Mardi Gras beads and doubloons.
Heirloom Beet Salad with Cara Cara Oranges, Cracked Hazelnuts and Saba
Chef Brandon Sharp, Solbar
Solbar at Solage
There’s a kind of genius at work behind the menu at Solbar, although Chef Brandon Sharp won’t take all the credit for it.