Dry Creek Kitchen

Dry Creek Kitchen is chef Charlie Palmer's Healdsburg restaurant, set inside Hotel Healdsburg on Healdsburg Avenue, across from the town Plaza. It opened in 2001, among the first serious dining rooms in a town that has since become one of Wine Country's great places to eat, and it celebrates its 25th anniversary in November 2026. The room is polished and calm, a hotel restaurant that draws as many locals as hotel guests. Executive chef Shane McAnelly now leads the kitchen and writes its tasting menus. The wine list is the restaurant's other identity: more than 600 labels, every one from Sonoma County, with more than twenty local wines poured by the glass. Palmer's name and that all-Sonoma cellar still bring people to Healdsburg just for dinner here.