Marin and Point Reyes
10 open around Around the Bay
North over the Golden Gate: sushi and a corner kitchen in Sausalito, beer in Mill Valley, Puerto Rican plates in San Rafael, and dining rooms inland at San Anselmo and Fairfax. The road then runs west to Tomales Bay, where oyster companies sell off the water at Marshall, Point Reyes Station holds a meadery, a butcher and a coffee bar, and Inverness and Olema each hold a room.
The towns
Restaurants6
Madcap★
Destination · Contemporary Californian, Asian influence · San Anselmo · $$$$
booking essential
Ron Siegel cooks a prix fixe five nights a week in San Anselmo, and it holds one MICHELIN star.
Sushi RanMichelin
Solid · Japanese, sushi · Sausalito · $$$$
booking essential
Forty years of nigiri in a Sausalito bungalow, run by executive chef and partner Takanori Wada.
Stillwater
Solid · New American, cocktails · Fairfax · $$$
walk-in
David Ruiz left Junior in the Mission, moved to Marin and opened a cocktail restaurant in Fairfax during the pandemic. Cameron Myers cooks.
Sol Food
Solid · Puerto Rican · San Rafael · $$
walk-in
Sol Hernandez learned to cook in Puerto Rico, started in the San Rafael farmers market, and now holds two doors on one block of Lincoln Avenue.
Provisions1
Hog Island Oyster General Store
Listed · Oysters, shellfish, picnic supplies · Marshall · $$
walk-inthe room’s own account
The retail window at the front gate of the Marshall farm, open every day from nine, selling the oysters live and unshucked.
Coffee1
Toby's Coffee Bar
Listed · Coffee, pastry · Point Reyes Station · $
walk-inthe room’s own account
Espresso on Linea beans with Straus milk, poured from a counter inside a 1942 feed barn in the middle of Point Reyes Station.
Producers2
Tomales Bay Oyster Company
Solid · Oysters, shellfish · Marshall · $$
walk-inthe room’s own account
Live Pacific oysters straight off the farm at Marshall, sold unshucked, since 1909.
Heidrun Meadery
Solid · Sparkling varietal mead · Point Reyes Station · $$
booking essentialthe room’s own account
Gordon Hull ferments honey by its flower and finishes it in bottle the champagne way, on a Point Reyes dairy farm replanted as bee forage.
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