Harvest Moon

Frommer's Review

If great food is essential to your experience, don't miss this restaurant run by chef/owner Nick Demarest, whose experience at Berkeley's world famous Chez Panisse is evidenced by his use of outstanding ingredients combined into dishes of clean, pure, and glorious flavors. His chicory salad with mustard vinaigrette, house-cured bacon, and Gruyère is a case-in-point appetizer that's easily backed up by entrees such as pan-fried local rock cod with Swiss chard, fingerling potatoes, and beurre rouge. Sweetening the already delicious deal, his wife Jen is a pedigreed pastry chef. The interior is awkward, with the chef hard at work within the shoebox-size open kitchen and a quirky scattering of tables tucked within a cramped and warm historic adobe room. But there are great seats at the wine bar, and, weather permitting, the back garden dining is spacious and relaxed. Regardless, if it's a good meal your after, you will not find a better one this side of the Mayacamas.

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