Stéphane Saint Louis cooks a tasting menu only, five or seven courses, for seventeen seats on Petaluma Boulevard South. Classical French technique meets West County produce in courses like duck breast with persimmon and a Wellington with its jus, with the cooks working steps from the tables. The Michelin Guide added it to its California selection in 2025.













Table Culture Provisions is a seventeen-seat dining room on Petaluma Boulevard South, run by chef Stéphane Saint Louis with chef and co-owner Steven Vargas and business partner Marta Saint Louis. Open since the start of the decade, it is still a young kitchen, and it serves fine dining by tasting menu only. Saint Louis calls it his happy place, and the intimacy shows: the cooks work steps from the tables, and the pace of the evening is set by conversation as much as by the courses. In spring 2025 the Michelin Guide added Table Culture Provisions to its California selection, recognition the team had long worked toward. For downtown Petaluma, it marked the arrival of a dining room that people now plan a trip around.

Stéphane Saint Louis leads the kitchens of two Petaluma restaurants he owns with Steven Vargas and Marta Saint Louis: Table Culture Provisions, the tasting-menu room added to the Michelin Guide's California selection in 2025, and Bijou, the French-California bistro opened in June 2025. He earlier cooked at The Shuckery and was chef de cuisine at Della Fattoria.

Steven Vargas co-owns Table Culture Provisions and Bijou with Stéphane Saint Louis, and he ran the tasting-menu kitchen while Saint Louis opened Bijou in June 2025. He started as a busser, studied culinary arts at Santa Rosa Junior College, and cooked at Della Fattoria and The Shuckery before the pair launched their first pop-up.