![]() Too bad I am on a (mostly) vegan and gluten-free stint right now, but I like to challenge a menu! Anyway, point is, snout to tail pig is their specialty so go hungry for pork and you won’t be disappointed. One thing you should know is that this is a meat-lover’s paradise, and more specifically a pig-lover’s haven. The place feels busy without being jam-packed. There’s an open kitchen in the back, a big open bar with plenty of seating in the center of the room, and a dining patio. Inside the space is HUGE – the ceiling reaches so high I couldn’t calculate how tall it is, and while there’s a danger of it feeling cold and unwelcoming, especially with the concrete floors, the bright yellow bar stools and blue water glasses help to add a sense of warmth. It was somewhat hard to get a reservation (of course!) but not impossible. It prides itself on organic, often home-grown food and appears to be the anchor restaurant tenant for The Barlow. Zazu has long been known as a great place to eat, and was formerly located in Santa Rosa. Anyway, I digress, go check it out for yourself. Yet. Personally, I’m pretty stoked to have a place like this closer to home than Napa’s Oxbow Market or Healdsburg, and I hope Petaluma gets it act together one of these days to do something similar. It’s really well done, big lofty barn-like spaces, wide sidewalks, open air spaces for eating and drinking, and it’s obviously super clean and new – which is probably the part that doesn’t feel quite like Sebastopol. That being said, the recent completion of The Barlow, a re-imagining of an industrial apple processing plant to create a place where artisanal food and wine producers can mingle with their consumers, seems to somehow change the vibe. It reminds me a lot of Hanalei in Kauai, without the amazing bay and tropical weather of course, but the soul of the place beats to a similar, independent drum. ![]() It’s proud of its eclectic mix of residents, stores and restaurants, and eschews anything that feels corporate, polished or overly manipulated – at least that’s always been my impression. Sebastopol is more off the beaten path than Petaluma or Sonoma, boasting a population of under 8,000. Tired of local pastures we decided to zip over to neighboring Sebastopol, a quick 20 minute drive through mostly pastoral scenes, to check out Zazu Kitchen & Farm‘s new home. Saturday night was date night, and although my intrepid dining companion is a little shorter than most and goes by the nickname of Monkey, after a hectic week for each of us, it was time to reconnect over dinner, a movie and ice cream. ![]()
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