Tuesday - October 25, 2011

Fence around a vinyard



We decided to stay in Santa Rosa for the day to visit some of the wineries. However, before setting out we went to another Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives spot this morning for breakfast. Place called Hank's Creekside Restaurant. It primarily serves breakfast and it was good. I had biscuits and gravy, eggs and corned beef hash. Brenda had whole wheat pancakes with eggs and sausages. As I mentioned both meals were good but special mention to the corned beef hash(for which we have the recipe) and the sausages. Brenda was stuffed for the rest of the day.

After breakfast we took a tour of the wine country. There are so many wineries here it is hard to know where to start. You just drive along the various back roads until you see a winery that has tastings that day and there are a lot of them. Since we had a GPS, it was not possible to get lost since we just kept going down various roads. Stopped at several wineries and bought some wine for the drive home. The wine is not cheap but it is quite good. Can't bring more than 4 750 ml bottles back to Canada. The duty on anything above that would make the cost of a bottle very prohibitive and substantially exceed the wines value.

After returning back to San, we went to dinner at another recommendation for the 3D book - a place called Willie Bird's. It mainly serves turkey dishes but does have other meals. Again a great meal for a reasonable price.









The interesting thing about the 3D recommendations are the meals are all good but not expensive. The other thing is that you would not usually stop at the restaurants unless you were a local who knew of the restaurant, either because of the location or the outside appearance. Each of the places we visited had a lot of customers so you had to know it was good.