Lauren Kershner turned the old Pagani family winery in Jack London Village into Songbird Parlour, a Victorian-style salon of green paneling, velvet sofas and a piano. Executive chef Miller McRae cooks hyper-local plates to share, with hot honey fried chicken on Sundays, and nightly social hours introduce one Sonoma Valley winemaker at a time.







Songbird Parlour began in 2022 as restaurateur Lauren Kershner's event space and catering hub inside the century-old Pagani family winery at Jack London Village, a Glen Ellen site whose history reaches back to an 1839 sawmill. In November 2024 she opened it as a full-time, five-nights-a-week restaurant, and the room is the first thing guests remember: pine-needle-green paneling, velvet sofas, gilded mirrors, an upright piano, and an enchanting floral mural, all staged as a Victorian-inspired salon. A hallway “museum” of local history leads to the dining room, setting the tone for a place built as much around gathering as around dinner. Still a young restaurant, it is already finding its following in the valley.

Lauren Kershner opened Songbird Parlour as a full-time restaurant in November 2024, inside a century-old winery building at Glen Ellen's Jack London Village. Trained at Le Cordon Bleu, she cooked at Morimoto Napa and Beltane Ranch and founded Goodness Gracious catering in 2016. She also runs Valley of the Moon Kombucha and West Wine Tours.