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• Oakland gets a taste for gourmet
10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
The New Restaurant at Ventana Debuts
Former Cielo Restaurant Opens After Year Long Renovation
Big Sur, Calif. (Oct. 20, 2009) -The Restaurant at Ventana, which was damaged in a structural fire in August 2008, has been completely renovated and reopened to the public on Friday, September 25.
With a new wine room greeting guests at the entry, the expansive cedar interiors open up to an inviting lounge area with a majestic redwood bar and oversize copper fireplace. The new dining room provides the opportunity to share in the excitement of the restaurant's exhibition kitchen. As part of the renovation, the dining room floor was elevated, offering picturesque views of the Santa Lucia Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
The Restaurant at Ventana's legendary outdoor terraces are an ideal venue for dining alfresco, with dramatic 50-mile views of the rugged coastline. Guests can select to sit beneath the vine draped arbor, in front of the grand outdoor rock fireplace or under a market umbrella. Whichever the choice of location, a meal here is as spectacular as its surroundings.
Ventana's new Executive Chef, Dory Ford, has crafted seasonal menus with fresh local, organic and sustainable ingredients. Ford comes to Ventana from the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium where he created menus for the Portola Café and Restaurant, oversaw the banquet/ catering division as well as served as host chef for Cooking for Solutions, the Aquarium's premier annual food and wine event. Under Ford's leadership, The Restaurant at Ventana is now participating in the Aquarium's acclaimed Seafood Watch program, which contributes to healthy oceans by educating consumers about environmentally sustainable seafood choices.
Lunch offers delectable options such as Piave Cheese Soufflé, Sustainable Seafood Chowder and Pumpkin Agnolotti; dinner includes outstanding main dishes such as Seared House-Spiced Bison Strip Loin, Liberty Farms Sonoma Duck Trio and Dungeness Crab Stuffed Monterey Squid. Additionally, much of the produce on the menu is harvested from Ventana's own organic gardens.
The restaurant is open daily with the following hours:
- Lunch: 12:00-3:00 p.m.
- Mid-Day Menu: 3:00-5 p.m.
- Dinner: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Reservations are recommended. Call 831.667.2331. For more information about The Restaurant at Ventana visit the resort's website at www.ventanainn.com.
