Dan & Kathleen Berman
Mixx
135 Fourth Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
707-573-1344
Mixx proprietors and chefs Dan and Kathleen Berman offer fresh, regional eclectic cuisine featuring a local mix of fresh Sonoma County produce, meats, and dairy products with their award-winning wine and dessert lists.

Paul Bertolli
Oliveto
5655 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
510-547-5356
Oliveto’s Paul Bertolli has mastered age-old techniques that rely on the use of the freshest ingredients, an appreciation of their particular qualities, and the skillful coaxing of their best possible flavors. Nestled in Oakland's distinctive and charming Rockridge neighborhood.

Wendy Brucker
Rivoli
1539 Solano Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
510-526-2542
With its contemporary American food and casual but elegant dining, Rivoli and Wendy Brucker specialize in preparing local and seasonal menus using predominantly organic ingredients, natural meats and poultry, and local and seasonal seafood.

Jesse Cool
Flea Street Café
3607 Alameda de las Pulgas
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-854-1226
With Jesse Cool's emphasis on seasonal and organic ingredients, Flea Street Café is a casually elegant restaurant appropriate for both business and private dining.

Gary Danko
Gary Danko
800 North Point at Hyde Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-749-2060
Award-winning chef Gary Danko’s distinctive culinary style combines the sophisticated refinement of classical cuisine with the satisfying exuberance of traditional cooking.

Jody Denton
Restaurant LuLu
816 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-5775
Restaurant LuLu’s executive chef and partner Jody Denton prepares simple, earthy, and varied cuisine of Provence and the French Riviera. Located in San Francisco's South Market district in a beautifully renovated, vintage 1910 warehouse.

Anne Gingrass
Hawthorne Lane
22 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-777-9779
The menus at Hawthorne Lane are built around the bounty of northern California&Mac226;s farms, ranches, dairies, and waters. Chef Anne Gingrass’s distinctive style combines strong flavors with contrasting textures and temperatures to create dishes that are satisfying and memorable.

Reed Hearon
Rose Pistola
532 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-399-0499
Reed Hearon’s Rose Pistola features a variety of tastes and shared pleasures by lending itself to family-style dining. The food is inspired by the cooking of the area’s oldest residents, most of whom hail from Genoa and the Ligurina coast.

David Kinch
Restaurant Sent Sovi
14583 Big Basin Way
Saratoga, CA 95070
408-867-3110
The small, intimate, French-California Restaurant Sent Sovi is a culinary gem located in Saratoga. David Kinch’s small, ever-changing menu offers both à la carte and six-course tasting menus that rely on local farmers and wineries for the freshest, most up-to-the-minute flavors possible.

Ian Liberton
Park Hyatt San Francisco
333 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-392-1234
Award-winning Park Grill has produced a popular, private club atmosphere to showcase Chef Ian Liberton’s menus of delicious California cuisine. Menus are continually updated to present unique selections reflecting the freshest local and seasonal produce and seafood. The Park Hyatt recipes in Cooking Fresh from the Bay Area are by former executive chef George Cronk. Recently George left the Park Hyatt to become executive chef at the Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando. The Park Hyatt’s new executive chef is Ian Liberton.

Nancy Oakes
Boulevard
One Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-543-6084
At Boulevard, Chef Nancy Oakes assimilates a range of ethnic influences into her cooking, including Asian, Mediterranean, and Latin. Classic French sensibilities and fresh, flavorful ingredients form the backbone of her seasonal and modern American menu.

Bradley Ogden
Lark Creek Inn
234 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur, CA 94939
415-924-7766
Located in picturesque Larkspur, Lark Creek Inn and Bradley Ogden have been hailed for their seasonal, farm-fresh American fare.

Daniel Patterson
Elisabeth Daniel
550 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-397-6129
Chef Daniel Patterson and wife Elisabeth Ramsey offer a classically French progression of courses using fresh, organic ingredients. Elisabeth Daniel is located in San Francisco's historic Jackson Square neighborhood.

Michael Quigley
Cafe Lolo
620 Fifth Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
707-576-7822
Nationally acclaimed Cafe Lolo is a small, intimate café serving Michael Quigley’s California wine-country cuisine and featuring local and seasonal ingredients.

Judy Rodgers
Zuni
1658 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-552-2522
An animated, bohemian-spirited restaurant, Zuni and Judy Rodgers feature inspired dishes made with the freshest ingredients possible.

Annie Somerville
Greens
Fort Mason, Building A
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-771-6222
A world-renowned vegetarian restaurant, Greens has been delighting patrons with its fresh, meatless cuisine for over 20 years. Annie Somerville is a well-known vegetarian chef and cookbook author.

Ralph Tingle
Bistro Ralph
109 Plaza Street
Healdsburg, CA 95448
707-433-1380
Located in Healdsburg, Bistro Ralph is small, slightly loud, and absolutely unpretentious. It’s a nice cross between city and country with Ralph Tingle's menu to match.

Eric Tucker
Millennium
246 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-487-9800
A fine-dining, vegetarian restaurant, Millennium specializes in Eric Tucker's eclectic, world cuisine, artfully presented and emphasizing local and organic produce, grains, and beans.

Thomas Vinolus
Bittersweet Bistro
787 Rio del Mar Boulevard
Aptos, CA 95003
831-662-9799
Housed in the 100-year-old former Deer Park Tavern in Rio del Mar, Bittersweet Bistro and Thomas Vinolus feature American bistro dining with Mediterranean influences.

Frances Wilson
Lalime&Mac226;s
1329 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94706
510-527-9838
With the soul of a fine-dining restaurant and the heart of a family sharing a meal, Lalime’s features Frances Wilson&Mac226;s California-Mediterranean cuisine prix-fixe dinners every night as well as à la carte menus.

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