Enjoy our reduced off-season rate of just $295/night, including holidays, now through 4/30. From January through March, enjoy a free 3rd night with any 2-night (*non holiday) booking. Now booking for Summer 2012! New Friday turn day in July and August makes coordinating your summer schedule with a group that much easier; best weeks sell out far in [...]
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Visit the Wild Steelhead Festival Website
Friday, February 10th
The 5th Annual Healdsburg WILD Steelhead Festival kicks off with
the WILD Salmon Dinner at the Villa Chanticleer
in Healdsburg. Jim Norton will be the Guest Speaker and
will be screening his film: ‘Salmon: Running the Gauntlet’, the most watched PBS Nature episode, ever.
Saturday February 11th
The Plaza in Downtown Healdsburg is the place to be from 10am to
4pm as the Festival gets going! There will be a trout pond under the Gazebo
for the young angler, and a fly fishing pond to learn from the pros. Fish
cooking demos from local chefs, wine tasting, fish soup and treats to eat, face
painting and art for kids to do and a live steelhead display to enjoy. Live band for dancing and info booths from Trout Unlimited, Russian Riverkeeper, Dept. of Fish and Game, Army Corp, Healdsburg Museum, Dyna-King, Sonoma County Water Agency, Costeaux Bakery, Chicago Hot Dogs, Vintage Valley Catering and more!
Sunday February 12th
Family fun events at the Visitor Center at Lake Sonoma. See the
fish returning to the hatchery and jumping the fish ladder, fish sorting,
Healdsburg High School Jazz Band, Michel Schlumberger Wines and more! 10am-3pm.
Thanks to the generous support of new and long-time sponsors, the Cloverdale Historical Society is pleased to bring you the 37th Annual Cloverdale Old Time Fiddle Festival. This year is going to be a lot of fun!
Sharing this event with you is something we plan and look forward to all year long. So we hope you will join us in celebration of the old tunes; music that has passed from person to person through the generations; music that lifts the spirit and makes your toes start tappin
Final Schedule for Entertainment is as follows:
Entertainment for Saturday January 21st
2:50 Cobb Stompers
4:45 Bean Creek
Jamming Stage
10:45 Cobb Stompers
11:45 Richard Brandenburg
1:15 Bean Creek
2:15 Hicktones
3:15 Slow Jam (Hosted by the Hicktones)
12:20 The Haute Flash Quartet
2:45 Debby McClatchy
4:45 Special Consensus
Jamming Stage
11:00 Charlie Poole Workshop (Hosted by Debby McClatchy)
2:00 Special Consensus
3:30 The Haute Flash Quartet
215 N. Cloverdale Blvd. ~ PO Box 628, Cloverdale, CA 95425 ~ 707-894-2067
From the Healdsburg Jazz Festival website:
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is a celebration of the indigenous American art form known as JAZZ.
Over the past 14 years, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival has become a favorite local tradition with a growing national reputation. This 10-day festival of public performances by world-renowned musicians in diverse settings, including the historic Raven Theater, the glamorous Hotel Healdsburg, boutique restaurants and wineries, has grown into one of the North Bay’s most celebrated annual musical events.
Come join us this year for an exciting line-up of festive events featuring new talent, living legends and energetic exponents of “real jazz” in the Wine Country.
Complete Festival Program online
All text and images courtesy Healdsburg Jazz Festival.
Mission Statement The Healdsburg Jazz Festival stimulates interest in and promotes awareness and appreciation of jazz by facilitating cross-cultural interaction, providing performance opportunities, and educating young people and adults about the important role of jazz as an indigenous American art form.
Founded in 1999, the Festival has flourished into an annual event featuring performances from some of the most renowned musicians world-wide.
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival also produces and promotes regular jazz performances in the area year-round, and sponsors and organizes educational programs and concerts for children and adults.
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Modcloth did bring a few props for the shoot, but we’re so thrilled to see their gorgeous creations being shown off in different spots throughout Westside Lodge.
Are you looking for a spot to shoot your catalog, commercial, corporate photos, or film? Westside Lodge is known as a residential vacation rental, but if you or your company is interested in using the home for commercial purposes, we can provide simple location or full-fledged production services.
We are exclusively represented by Scout Napa Valley. Per diem pricing for commercial use must be arranged separately from any residential rental. Get more info at Scout Napa Valley’s site.
[ February 10, 2012 to February 12, 2012. ]
Visit the Wild Steelhead Festival Website
Friday, February 10th
The 5th Annual Healdsburg WILD Steelhead Festival kicks off with
the WILD Salmon Dinner at the Villa Chanticleer
in Healdsburg. Jim Norton will be the Guest Speaker and
will be screening his film: ‘Salmon: Running the Gauntlet’, the most watched PBS Nature episode, ever.
Saturday February 11th
The Plaza in Downtown Healdsburg is [...]
[ January 21, 2012 to January 22, 2012. ]
Thanks to the generous support of new and long-time sponsors, the Cloverdale Historical Society is pleased to bring you the 37th Annual Cloverdale Old Time Fiddle Festival. This year is going to be a lot of fun!
Sharing this event with you is something we plan and look forward to all year long. So we hope [...]
[ June 8, 2012 to June 17, 2012. ] From the Healdsburg Jazz Festival website:
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is a celebration of the indigenous American art form known as JAZZ.
Over the past 14 years, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival has become a favorite local tradition with a growing national reputation. This 10-day festival of public performances by world-renowned musicians in diverse [...]
Anyone who knows Russian River Valley Pinot Noir has heard the family name Bacigalupi. This family is responsible for some of the best-known and most highly regarded vineyards in the area, and has produced both Chardonnay and Pinot grapes that have been the basis for award-winning wines for decades. Some of the Russian River Valley’s [...]
Enjoying a long standing passion for Pinot Noir, the winery namesake and winemaker, Virginia Marie Lambrix now has the platform to expand her expression of stylistic single vineyard designated Pinots and Chardonnays from sustainable and organically grown vineyards.
Duskie and John do an American Gothic pose, Zazu Style
Special Info: Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday are PIZZA & PINOT nights. Zazu makes pizzas paired for pinot noir and offers a paired tasting flight of pinot.
The Focus: Our kitchen emphasizes ingredients grown within a 50 mile radius of the restaurant unless a [...]
I hear my neighbor’s 2 hens mumbling in the way that happy chickens do, thankful for new beet + chard sprouts in my Glen Park #urbangarden
Evening temps @westsidelodge are hovering just above freezing. Would love to see some snow on #pinot vines over the next couple of days
New photo slideshow of Westside Lodge interior and grounds with detailed descriptions http://t.co/QStSsGR via @AddThis
Just west of 101 and Downtown Healdsburg, right here on Westside Road, you’ll find the new DaVero tasting room. Sample their luscious olive oils (Mario Batali calls it “green gold love juice”!), estate-grown wines, and if you’re lucky, Colleen might be serving tastes of her delicious homemade soups or biscotti.
Enjoy the biodynamically farmed products here, [...]
According to the Beer Advocate, Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa has the #2 and #3 Best Beers in the world!
#2 Pliny The Elder, American Double / Imperial IPA / 8.00% ABV, Russian River Brewing Company A+
#3 Pliny The Younger, American Double / Imperial IPA / 11.00% ABV, Russian River Brewing Company A+
Watch out for that [...]
This is a new event, so there’s not much info posted except what we’ve read on the event’s site at http://sfnaturalwineweek.wordpress.com/
We
The Seghesio family has been involved in the winemaking business in Sonoma County since 1886. Edoardo Seghesio first immigrated to the “Italian Swiss Colony” to work in the vineyards, and rose through the ranks to winemaker. In 1895, he and his wife finally purchased a home and surrounding vineyards in Alexander Valley, now knows as [...]
Tours of The Melissa Garden, by Garden Designer Kate Frey
Garden Tour Date schedule for 2010:
Friday, June 11 ~ 10-11:30 am
Friday, July 16 ~ 10-11:30 am
Friday, August 20 ~ 10-11:30 am
Friday, September 17 ~ 10-11:30 am
Come experience the buzz and blossoms at our honeybee sanctuary with garden [...]
From the Windsor-Sonoma site:
We’re Building Our New Home!
We’re proud to announce that we recently acquired, and have begun to replant, a 40-acre vineyard estate on Westside Road in the esteemed Russian River Valley Appellation. Now that many of the grapes are firmly planted and growing happily, we are further [...]
Restaurant and Inn profile of the Farmhouse Inn in Forestville, CA. This Michelin star restaurant is located just 5 minutes from Westside Lodge.
Screen Shot and text from the River Rock Casino site:
River Rock Casino offers 1300 state-of-the-art slot machines, featuring classics like video poker, video keno, and exciting in-house progressives, and many more of your favorites. Come and try your luck at everything from penny slots to $100 pulls. Guest favorites like Wheel [...]
Newsflash! We’ve just learned that Sarah’s Forestville Kitchen is now open for business on Front Street near Nightengale Breads, serving Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch every day but Tuesdays. (Front Street is the section of highway 116 that passes through Forestville just before Mirabel Road)
WIth menu items like Shrimp & Grits, organic egg omelettes, and Corned [...]
“Redwood Beauty, Mackenzie Challenge”
Recently recognized by Golf World Magazine as the #3 Nine-hole course
in America!
Enjoy a round of golf among the majestic redwoods in the heart of the Russian River Resort Area, just 10 miles from Westside Lodge.
Experience one of the most unique golf courses in the world, one of Alister MacKenzie’s [...]
Influenced by his family’s 400 years of grape growing and winemaking in Alsace, Jacques Schlumberger is committed to producing small lots of fine wine imprinted with the distinct terroir of the estate’s steep hillside vineyards. Winemaker, Mike Brunson, applies the highest standards to compose classic wines. Cheese and [...]
This incredible event is devoted to all things Pinot, with an intense focus on California producers, along with a few Oregon and Burgundy producers as well. One very special feature of Pinot Days is that many winemakers themselves are pouring their own wines, allowing for a kind of interaction Pinot lovers rarely get to experience, [...]
Thurs. April 29
The Uncorked festival features a host of sponsors, including many of California’s larger wine producers including Beringer, Stag’s Leap, Souverain, Chateau St. Jean, Meridian, and benefit’s San Francisco’s La Cocina, a culinary business incubator here in San Francisco. For more info about La Cocina, visit their site.
However, you’ll also find Westside Road’s very own John [...]
They’re here, they’re free, and they include Westside Lodge!
The 2010 Sonoma County Visitors’ Guide and Map are available by mail and at hundreds of locations in and around Sonoma County. Pick yours up while you’re visiting, or visit the Sonoma County Visitors Guide page to request one by mail.
Westside Lodge is a Featured Vacation [...]
The 2010 Golden Glass will celebrate the efforts of over 100 international wine producers who strive to protect, nurture, and revive the indigenous and classic varieties of their regions. The wineries will be clustered in designated, regional areas throughout the [...]
Saturday January 30
We’ve yet to get a hold of Gracianna’s wines, but they have been quietly making a new and solid mark among the winemakers on Westside Road. On Vinography, Alder ranked the 2007 Gracianna Zinfandel, Sonoma Valley ($42) an 8.5, in good company with many established winemakers’ creations. We also see that Gracianna took a few [...]
Photo from Kim Kaldo-Alvarez, Sonoma West
Nightingale Breads is a newcomer to Forestville, doing business on Front Street, the section of highway 116 that runs through central Forestville (just under 4 miles from Westside Lodge). They’ve already won popular attention on many of San Francisco’s food blogs, and enjoyed medals at the 2009 Sonoma Harvest Fair [...]
We first heard about this on the Huffington Post, and laughed ourselves silly when we saw it… enjoy!
Upcoming events, as published on the Omnivore Books website. Where will you ever find a better place to do your Christmas shopping?
Visit Omnivore’s site
Wednesday December 2
This morning, we found the Business Section of the newspaper amongst the remains of our busy Thanksgiving, and saw a great article profiling one of the city’s foodie microcosms: Bi-Rite. This store, creamery, and art space has proven that a single company and devoted group of people can turn a single location into an epicenter [...]
From the 231 Ellsworth newsletter:
January 15th, 2010: 5-Course Dinner Paired with Moshin Vineyards Wines
Located in Russian River Valley, Moshin Vineyards specializes in small lot hand crafted wines. Rick Moshin’s dream became a reality in 1989 with the purchase of a ten acre plot of land in Sonaoma County. Today, the winery controls 28 acres of [...]
Omnivore Books is one of our favorite little detours in Noe Valley. It’s easy to get lost in here, even though the whole shop is smaller than the living room at Westside Lodge. Stop by, enjoy a reading, and support our local bookstore. You can find Omnivore Books in Noe Valley on Cesar Chavez St., [...]
From the Winejudging.com site:
Save the Date! February 20, 2010.
The Public Tasting of the largest competition of American wines in the world is much more than just a wine tasting
The Russian River can be fished year-round, and with some expert help, you’ll be taking home dinner (or at least a great story about the one that got away!) You’ll find Steelhead, Salmon, Bass, and Catfish. King’s Sport in Guerneville can provide you info on which fish you can keep, when you need a license, [...]
PinotFest 2009
A Public Tasting of a Sexy Wine
San Francisco
Wednesday, October 14th 6:30-8:30pm
The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center
101 Henry Adams Street, SF
VIP early admission 6pm
This food & wine event is a celebration of Wine and Spirits Magazine’s Top 100 Wines. Admission includes tastes from San Francisco restaurants including Flour & Water, Nettie’s Crab Shack, and Kitchenette, to name just a few. Additional [...]
Taste of the Bay is an opportunity to sample food and wine from some of the Bay Area’s premiere producers. Who will we be looking for?
Sarah Schafer, the Chef from Anchor and Hope will be at the event. Sarah’s menu at A&H is a melange of classic seafood dishes blended with sophisticated new preparations. The [...]
From the Press Democrat, 9/29
This farm, which sells to about 40 restaurants in the Bay Area, operates its own farmstand from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily on bucolic Westside Road, starting in late July through early November.
Wild Flour on CNN
We happened upon Wild Flour Bread on the way back from a “research” outing to Osmosis Day Spa, and were stunned to find some of the best bread we’ve ever happened upon. (and we live in SF, less than 2 miles from the line-around-the-block
Winery Tour Hours: Winery tours are offered daily, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., and Wine Shop/Tasting Room hours are from 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Garden Tour Hours: The Garden Tour is offered daily, 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday (mid-April through mid-October).
Location: 13250 River Road, Guerneville, CA 95446 (about 5 minutes west [...]
A delicious visit, between Westside Lodge and Sebastopol. Don’t miss the apple or pumpkin butters, and the best-selling red raspberry vinegar.
From the Kozlowski Farms Website:
Located five miles north of Sebastopol near the town of Forestville, the Kozlowski Farm itself is steeped in California history. We
The Dry Creek Olive Company invites you to stop by… this is a great stop to make when you’re tasting over on Dry Creek Road.
From the Dry Creek Olive Company Website:
Please stop by our newly opened tasting room to sample them for yourself. Our tasting room is located at Timber Crest Farms in Healdsburg, California. [...]
The Bishop’s Ranch
5297 Westside Road
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Phone: 707-433-2440
Link to Website
From the Bishop’s Ranch Website:
Who We Are
On a sunny knoll nestled among the forests, farms and vineyards of Sonoma County is the Bishop’s Ranch — owned by the Episcopal Diocese of California since 1947. This retreat and conference center provides a variety of meeting facilities, comfortable [...]
Visit Madrona Manor Restaurant Page
Reservations:
This year, the Jazz and Blues Festivals will be combined for one powerful weekend of music. Book early–this weekend is sure to book quickly.
From the Omega Events site, as of May 27th, 2009:
Sat. September 12 (Jazz Festival):
AL JARREAU – 5 time Grammy Award winning vocalist
JAZZ ATTACK – a high-energy collaboration featuring three stars of contemporary [...]
Special Info: Great place to sit outside, especially if you can score a patio table during the free Tuesday night summer concerts in the square. The $8 Angus burger with house-made bread & butter pickles on a Costeaux sourdough bun is a steal.
The Focus: American bar food, elevated with local, fresh, high-quality ingredients.
Westside Lodge recommends: [...]
What better way to truly experience a vineyard than to walk through it with an experienced guide? Zephyr Adventures/Sonoma Wine Country Walks offers 1, 3 and 5 day vineyard walks and walking tours through different vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley and nearby vineyards.
The 3-day and 5-day tours include lodging in nearby Santa Rosa or [...]
Williams Selyem wines in the making
Williams Selyem is a well-respected maker of Pinot Noir and other boutique wines, including the highly rated “Westside Road Neighbors” Pinot Noir. They do not maintain a tasting room. Visits to the winery are by appointment only, for Mailing List members only. It can take a while to “make the [...]
Arista Winery Grounds
Arista Winery is located directly on Westside Road. In January of 2009, Arista received 90+ ratings on every one of its 2006 Pinot Noirs. While tasting these beautiful Westside Road wines, enjoy Japanese gardens and water garden, picnic on the grounds, or plan a private event here.
From the Arista site:
Come taste our handcrafted [...]
Feel like a leisurely horseback ride through one of the local parks? Austin Creek State Park and Armstrong Woods State Park both offer horseback rides of various lengths from short to pack rides.
ARMSTRONG WOODS PACK STATION
Jonathan and Laura Ayers; guides/ outfitters/ owners – Since 1983
Box 287, Guerneville, CA 95446
(707) 887-2939
reservations made by phone only
visit site
Note: as of late spring 2011, C. Donatiello has moved. VML wines now occupies the property and tasting room at this location.
C. Donatiello is one of our very favorite destinations on all of Westside Road. From the moment you get out of your car and begin ascending the herb-planted stairs to the tasting room, [...]
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