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VENICE
Al Covo
Small family owned -American wife Venetian husband, wonderful
food & ambience.
www.ristorantealcovo.com
PARIS
Au Bon Accueil
Small, romantic, local favorite with fabulous food &
wine list. The view of the Eiffel Tower will make your heart
skip a beat.
114 rue de Monttessuy
SAN FRANCISCO
ISA
Another family owned busy spot with a menu of delicious
small bites to share family style. Fun neighborhood for
walking around before or after dinner.
3324 Steiner
Street, 415-567-9588
St. HELENA,
CA
Terra
Romantic interior, eclectic menu with Asian influences,
a bit pricey, but worth it.
CALISTOGA CA
Checkers
Are you moaning with Wine Country food-over-load? Just want
a regular place with a great pizza? Then this is your spot.
No delivery.
Road.... Highway
101
South bound into San Francisco from Napa or Sonoma through
rolling vineyards, over rivers and through the tunnel with
the Golden Gate Bridge and the SF skyline soaring into view!
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The Art of Eating
A publication of great class and pedigree, and still relatively
unknown in the food and wine world, is The Art of Eating.
Self-published by Ed Behr for over ten years, it is a throwback
to the days of quality journalism, balanced insight, and
beautifully designed layout. Each issue is an education
in a topic or a place, from Piedmonte to Tokyo to the New
England coast. It is worth every dollar for the subscription. Be
sure to check out the back issue list.
www.artofeating.com
VinMaps.com
Outstanding maps of wine regions are hard to find, but the
best are available from VinMaps.com. These are the
maps we use at our office and for our tasting events.
Incredible detail and rich color make these better than
all maps we’ve found.
www.vinmaps.com
Robin Garr’s WineLoversPage.com
When the internet first started buzzing, suddenly there
were hundreds of sites devoted to wine. Everybody,
it seemed, was an expert and the millions of opinions only
served to confuse the general public. The smart ones
took the roll of wine educator and information organizer,
rather than review dictator. The best of these is
Robin Garr’s WineLoversPage.com. Robin has assembled
an all-star team of writers scouring the globe to give you
unbiased wine opinions and advice. The depth of this
site is amazing, and within it you will find almost all
of your questions answered.
www.wineloverspage.com
Wine Business.com
A must for industry information is Wine Business.com.
This site is updated continuously with the latest news and
information. Their daily email is a good one to subscribe
to (follow the ‘daily news’ page to the bottom
and click on ‘Subscribe to daily news email.’)
www.winebusiness.com
JoTo Sake
When we brought JoTo Sake’ into the portfolio at World
Class Wines, we were admitted Sake’ novices.
The JoTo Sake website is particularly beautiful and full
of detailed information to begin your sake’ education.
For further study, the website of choice is sake-world.com,
run by John Gauntner, the number one English speaking sake’
expert. From here you can learn all you need to navigate
our hand-crafted sake selection, and make informed choices
at your next sushi dinner.
www.jotosake.com
Local Wine
Events.com
There is no better compellation of wine events around the
world than Local Wine Events.com. Eric V. Orange has
done an amazing job of bringing the wine world (literally)
together in this easy to navigate site. Not only a
great source of information for the Twin Cities, you can
use this site before your next trip to plan for wine dinners
and events.
www.localwineevents.com
And of course, when in the Bay Area, you must visit In-n-Out
Burger.
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