Tag: Bonny Doon Vineyard Tue, May 21, 2013
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Does Santa Cruz Have a West End?
NewsCuisineWine Apr 30, 2013, by Christina Waters 10 Comments
Le Cigare Volant space to become taproom; UCSC’s Sprint Plant Sale on.
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The Future of Fine Dining in Santa Cruz
NewsCuisine Jan 16, 2013, by Steve Palopoli 11 Comments
Steeped in natural foods culture and surrounded by grazing lands, small farms, the Pacific Ocean, wine regions and Northern California’s wealthiest county, Santa Cruz County would seem perfectly positioned to become the next Napa Valley.
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Kitchen Gardens: Le Cigare Volant
News Oct 02, 2012, by Christina Waters
Last week, Le Cigare Volant chef Ryan Shelton drew from the restaurant’s bio-dynamic gardens in San Juan Bautista to create dish after dazzling dish of seasonal creativity. Dry-farmed green and crimson tomatoes, honeydew melon and shell beans converged in Shelton’s sparkling salad course. Grilled corn and squashes adorned a platter piled high with roasted suckling pig. And into vast platters of paella, perfumed by smoked paprika and local shellfish, came more of the fresh herbs and vegetables from the chef’s in-house garden.
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Q&A: Ryan Shelton of Le Cigare Volant
News Jul 31, 2012, by Christina Waters
The new chef at the Bonny Doon Vineyard café on the toughest thing about leaving Baumé, why he loves working in an exhibition kitchen and the biggest surprise about Santa Cruz diners.
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Top 10 Santa Cruz Mountains Wines
Wine Jul 17, 2012, by Traci Hukill
We fed Christina Waters a truth serum so she’d name her top 10 Santa Cruz Mountains wines. Here’s what we got, from the summeriest whites to the most profound pinots.
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Roswell Hour at Bonny Doon Vineyard
News Jun 26, 2012, by Christina Waters 1 Comments
Getting Doon cheaply is what’s in store if you stop by the Tasting Room from 3pm to 6pm, any day but Saturday. During those hours you’ll be able to savor a glass of Bonny Doon Vineyards wine at half price—51 percent off, to be precise. It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to know that this is a bargain of extraterrestrial proportions, and another reason to consider the Ingalls Street watering hole as Santa Cruz’ answer to Area 51.
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Cabrillo Culinary Students’ End-of-Year Feast
NewsWine May 15, 2012, by Christina Waters
Spring definitely brings out the hunger artist in us all. The opportunities to savor find local food and wine (and beer and ice cream) is too tempting to resist. For example, the food scholars of Cabrillo College’s Culinary Arts Program will present their final dining showcase of the spring semester this week, May 15–17, at the beautiful Pino Alto Restaurant in the historic Sesnon House.
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New Chef, New Name, New Flair for Bonny Doon Vineyard Cafe
Reviews May 08, 2012, by Christina Waters 1 Comments
With the transfiguration of the Cellar Door bistro into Le Cigare Volant, proprietor/winemaker Randall Grahm plays to his strengths, as well as to his sense of play. Named for Bonny Doon Vineyards’ flagship wine, the restaurant simultaneously debuts chef Ryan Shelton, who brings to the cafe’s exhibition kitchen deep experience in the alchemical ways of tres contemporary French cuisine—molecular cookery replete with scented and spiced foams.
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La Posta Springs Eternal
NewsCuisineWine May 01, 2012, by Christina Waters
The chickens are happy and squawking in their backyard territory. The kitchen herb garden is loaded with fragrance. And chef Katherine Stern’s seasonal menu sprouts beautiful plates of agnolotti with fava leaves and sugar snap peas, shaved asparagus salad with green garlic, and my new favorite—tender potato gnocchi laced with fava beans, green shallots and wild nettles.
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The UCSC Student Behind a New Wine Design
NewsWine Apr 17, 2012, by Christina Waters 2 Comments
Arts student and 2012 Irwin Scholar Louise Leong finds inspiration in her obsession with product design, branding and vintage cartoons. A senior majoring in art at UCSC, Leong recently submitted the design chosen to grace a custom-bottled roussanne white wine made by Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyards.
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