3 Best Restaurants in Forestville, Napa and Sonoma

The chef at this few-frills restaurant with seating outdoors under a massive poplar tree or inside at the bar and a handful of tables prepares pan-Chinese comfort cuisine. Dishes that might include pork wonton noodle soup, spicier Taiwan beef noodle soup, congee (rice porridge), sizzling black cod, and Szechuan mapo tofu with black bean sauce are easy to appreciate on their culinary merits, the bonus being the sense of deep cultural attachment underpinning them.

The 1877 farmhouse that gives this restaurant its name contains two warmly lit dining rooms, one with a wraparound mural depicting the founding family's five generations in Sonoma County agriculture. It's a fitting flourish, given the emphasis in the featured tasting menu (à la carte also available) on produce and proteins so "hyper-local" that the inn's gardener cultivates many of the former on-site and one of the owners raises some of the latter on a nearby farm.

The chefs at this casual-contemporary, wide-windowed restaurant in downtown Forestville prepare two types of pizzas—thicker pies cooked in a wood-fired oven and thinner ones with cold-fermented dough baked in an electric oven. Tapas, meatballs, salads like the seasonal burrata-and-beets, and other small plates are among the non-pizza alternatives.