kenwood restaurants

Salt and Stone serves steaks, seafood and California standards along Highway 12 in Kenwood, with a vineyard-side patio. Executive chef Enrique Alcaraz's menu runs from grilled octopus, steak tartare and ahi poke to steaks up to bone-in cuts with a table-side salt sampler. Monday to Wednesday Bistro Nights bring three courses for $35, and local wines come by the carafe.

Chef Ari Weiswasser's second restaurant, after Glen Ellen Star, cooks California-Italian on Highway 12 in Kenwood around an open fire. Dinner starts with morning-baked focaccia and the mozzarella bar, then moves to bucatini cacio e pepe, lobster ravioli, whole roasted fish or tomahawk steak from the plancha. Sonoma and Napa wines and low-proof cocktails pour alongside.