Dry Creek Kitchen Restaurant Review:
Dry Creek Kitchen helped guide Healdsburg’s maturation into a restaurant destination. While it’s just one outpost in chef Charlie Palmer’s nationwide collection, it has a special mission --- to celebrate Sonoma County’s culinary richness. Executive chef Andrew Wilson came on board in early 2015. Still progressive American, Wilson's seasonal menus ebb and flow with what’s at the farmers market...
Chef Charlie Palmer's ultramodern destination restaurant enchants diners with clever combinations of flavors and textures in dishes based on seasonal, often local ingredients. A perennial favorite among the starters is the diver scallops with fennel in a thin and flaky pastry shell, with a caviar-Pernod beurre blanc sauce. Expect a similar level of complexity with main courses that might...
Chef Charlie Palmer's ode to fresh, local ingredients in the belly of his Healdsburg Hotel. Staples like Petaluma chicken and braised beef short rib set aside more creative takes such as warm dungeness crab fondue and black cod serried on soba noodle cake. There's a strong wine list, of course, with rare private library and limited production wines among the 600 available. No corkage on Sonoma...
If you're loath to surrender high heels and urban style just because you're in ag country, you'll appreciate celeb chef Charlie Palmer's Sonoma County outpost, Dry Creek Kitchen at Hotel Healdsburg. The architectural elements—vaulted ceilings, towering columns, and a wall of windows overlooking the town plaza—look out of place in this small town of white picket fences, but they set a dramatic...