Dead Letter

Dead Letter opened on July 16, 2026 at 101 East Napa Street, on a corner of the Sonoma Plaza, in a stone-walled building that once housed the town's third post office and later Pete's Electric and a run of restaurants. The restaurant takes its name and much of its look from that postal past, down to a vintage postal window and mail-themed details. Owners Sondra Bernstein and John Toulze, the partners behind the Girl & the Fig, built it as a modern California restaurant of about 65 seats around a Josper charcoal grill, with an open kitchen behind an enlarged bar and banquettes along the walls. Surreal digital art by PROTO.logue shifts across screens set against the rugged stone. A young kitchen, it is already finding its following.