Solbar at Solage in Calistoga, Napa Valley
by Janel on September 18, 2009 · 0 Comments
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Last week Funk and I spent a wonderful week on vacation in Northern California. (Sneaky how I still kept all my blog posts coming, huh? Don’t worry, I was most certainly NOT blogging while on vaca!) We started off the trip by driving right up to Calistoga, a little sleepy-town in Napa Valley
. Calistoga is known for it’s mineral water hot springs and mud baths, both of which we tried at the spa (mud baths are verrrryyyy unusual, but once you get used to having mud everywhere, they’re sublime). We absolutely loved this quaint little quiet town, and our first night in Calistoga happened to be one of the highlights of our whole trip.
We went to Solbar restaurant at the Solage Luxury Resort for dinner. It was tucked away on the Silverado Trail in a beautiful setting. Each private room even had two bicycles at the front step for guests to ride around town! We ate on the outdoor patio alongside a sparkling pool and toasty fireplace. While we dined on one of the most amazing meals we had ever had, (a pan seared Pacific halibut with sugar snap peas, shishito peppers, ginger carrots and cashew vinaigrette for F
unk and some ahi tuna with chantrelles, blue lake beans, butter beans and salba reduction for me) we enjoyed a bottle of white from a local vineyard, Homage, in Calistoga. As if that meal wasn’t perfect enough, we topped it off with a Black and White Cobbler for 2 with blackberries and pope valley white peaches with a sweet biscuit crust and vanilla ice cream. Oh. My. Gooooodness. We basically licked the plate clean.
The food was beyond divine but the whole experience was heightened by the best service we have ever received from the hostess who addressed us by name when we left, to the waiter who made spot on recommendations, and the chef and miatre d’ who visited our table personally.
Funk and I have already declared we WILL be back to Solbar at Solage later in life, even if we have to tap into our 401k to afford it! It was the ideal kickoff to our vacation.
