Around California.
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26 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 26 of them.
The North Coast10
Mendocino and Humboldt hold it: the brewpub at Fort Bragg, the inn at Elk, the roadhouse at Gualala and the store above Shelter Cove, with Anderson Valley's brewery and wineries inland at Boonville and Philo.
Boonville · 2
Fortuna · 2
Gualala · 2
Elk · 1
Fort Bragg · 1
Philo · 1
Whitethorn · 1
The Desert6
Palm Springs runs from Workshop Kitchen & Bar and Farm to the bar at Dead or Alive, and La Copine stands on its own out at Yucca Valley.
Yucca Valley · 1
The Central Valley5
Wool Growers cooks Basque family-style in Bakersfield, and Winters and Fairfield hold taprooms where the valley runs down to the delta.
Bakersfield · 3
Fairfield · 1
Winters · 1
The Sierra4
Truckee and Kings Beach sit either side of the Tahoe shore, and Oakhurst keeps a dining room on the road into Yosemite.