Ask anyone who knows me: I’m the world’s pickiest eater. I’ll eat anywhere that’s well rated on Yelp, but typically I only “trust” a handful of restaurants both for quality of food and safety, I don’t want to get sick from dining out. If you’re in the SF Bay Area and plan to take a trip through the world famous 
These places are in no particular order, they’re all good and I’ll pick one over another based on my mood.
- $$$$=>$100/person
- $$$=$50-$75/person
- $$=$30-$40/person
- $=<$25/person
Wine Train – $$$$
This is a 3 hour experience on an historic train that lets you dine as you travel up and down the .
Sushi Mambo – $
Everything here is good. The sushi is fresh. Service can be hit or miss but the locals put up with it for the food. Order a lot of sushi and you’ll bump into the $$ range.
Rutherford Grill – $$
Favorite dish here is their Chicken Sandwich though the ribs, french dip, and veggie burger are great too. Try the corn bread and deviled egg appetizers and the oreo cookie dessert. Nice atmosphere too. This is very similar to the “
Cole’s Chop House – $$
Fantastic Filet Mignon, great fish of the day (usually halibut), and tasty desserts like Pecan Pie. Be sure to make reservations here by calling or using opentable.com. Nice wine and drinks will bump you into the $$$ range, I’m an iced tea kind of guy .
Pizza Azzurro – $
The caesar salad is good (fresh crisp lettuce, large croutons), as is the marguarita pizza, baked rigatoni, and manciatas. Might be in the $$ range depending upon what you order. It’s not a Pizza Hut.
Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant (St. Helena) – $$$
Fantastic food here, top quality, and you eat in an old monestary overlooking a beautiful vineyard in
Seafood with daily specials like Mahi-Mahi or Ahi. Nice small, intimate restaurant, friendly staff.
Angele – $$
French country, great food. Fantastic Buf Bourgignon.
Barber’s Q – $
Fantastic
Celadon – $$
They have an excellent scallops dish for dinner, and a tasty cheese stuffed chicken breast. The food here can be a bit rich, lots of oil and butter in their sauces.
This is a 50′s style outdoor-only restaurant (with picnic tables and a section with outdoor heaters) that serves really good comfort food, hamburgers, shakes, really good chicken sandwiches, soups, fish tacos, etc. Located north of
I beg of you, do NOT start making “food posts” a regular thing. I love your blog and I have to tell you that I absolutely detest those restaurant food close-up posts on JohnChow.com.
Vic
Might want to take it easy vic, blogging is about freedom of personal expression. If you “detest” against these articles, your freedom to remove yourself from this blog is also an option.
Of course I realize that. That is why I have “removed” myself from John Chow’s blog.
Vic
Oh no not another JhonChow. well I guess to have your supper deducted off your income… why not bore your readers.
Paul.
Sorry that I happen to enjoy dining out – a blog about business business business all the time is boring. So, you’ll find posts about what I like, my personality, stuff I find interesting, interspersed with business posts. I’m not a machine, I can’t write “50 ways to make a million dollars” every day.
LOL, Scott, sure I understand that. There’s just something about closeups of plates of food that bugs me. Maybe it goes back to my childhood, I don’t know…
I wouldn’t mind hearing about your hobbies or movies you like. And again I want to emphasize that I think you have an excellent site here. Very down to earth and non-sensational in your presentation of information.
Vic
Keep up the excellent work scott. I’ve would’ve never known that you owned resellerrating.com until I stumble onto your blog.
Modchipstore.com and Allmodchip.com were the businesses I enlisted on your service but too bad they’ve been all sold and now is in a huge decline due to new management :/
I must also plead with you not to make food posts a regular feature – please stick to internet business!
If I was planning to make it a regular feature I would have posted pictures from one restaurant – this was a Napa eating roundup – I’ve already shown you photos of all the places I eat…
i love food posts! im getting hungry now so ill be back once i grab a drumstick or somethin. bye
may be you should include the price of food along with the pics so ” average Joe’s” like us can look at fruit that never falls from the sky
Loved eating at Taylor’s last time I was up there touring a few of the wineries. A friend works in the industry so we toured Kuleto’s, Twomey, Larksmead and Frank Family vinyards but stopped at Taylor’s for food after Kuleto’s. Then we had dinner at Travigne which I am surprised you didn’t mention, after all Napa resident and Food Network star Michael Chiarello got his start there. Excellent food and great wine selection for the price.
Yeah taylor’s is really good.
“may be you should include the price of food along with the pics so”
I added a $ scale just for you!
“Then we had dinner at Travigne which I am surprised you didn’t mention”
I’m not a big fan of Travigne – ate their once and didn’t care for it, but I might have just ordered the wrong thing.
All those dishes look so delicious and beautiful. I can also vouche for the Wine Train!
is it me or your photos look super crisp. What camera do you use?
That dessert looks artistically delicious. Undoubtedly, it probably tasted just as good too.
Want to eat all of this: so hungry now!
How come you did not list the good resturants like the frnch laundry or bottega or how about bistro jeanty I could go on but I see you eat at mid level food joints
Sorry dude but I don’t eat at french laundry every week, do you? These are the restaurants that I eat at daily/weekly.