Gold Country.
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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.
Placerville and Apple Hill12
Highway 50 climbs into El Dorado County and the orchards start. Apple Hill sells pie and cider at Camino, wineries ring Placerville on the ridges either side, and one more pours further south at Somerset.
Placerville · 9
Somerset · 1
The Highway 49 towns9
The northern mines, strung along Highway 49. Auburn keeps a roadside market, a diner and two breweries, and the wineries pick up again at Penn Valley, Grass Valley and Nevada City.
Grass Valley · 3
Nevada City · 1
Penn Valley · 1
Sacramento and the valley floor5
Rooms on the valley floor: a brewery and a market kitchen in Sacramento, tacos at Roseville, a beer company at Lincoln and a public house at Rocklin.