Whatever next? I will surely be one of the many followers of the Valley’s restaurant scene who undergoes a ‘you’re kidding me’ moment on hearing this week’s latest development. Yes folks, Matt Barnes and his partner, chef Patrick Meany, of Stone and Embers “fame” have decided to reopen their fine restaurant once again, perhaps as early as next week.
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NOT TO ALARM YOU, Anderson Valley, but all those rumors about the dead man found in Upper Peachland? True. There was a page out last week of local emergency services people. Phrases like “coroner confirmation”…
Downtown Boonville was hopping on Saturday night and as I flew over the heaving metropolis. In the early evening the throngs on the streets and “traffic jam” in the heart of the “City” was quite a sight to behold. At the Redwood Drive-In there was a birthday celebration attended by many from our Mexican community, while the three other Boonville restaurants. Aquarelle, The Hotel, and Lauren’s had large numbers of vehicles parked outside each of them. Further down the road there was a clearly popular event at the Pennyroyal Farm, while at The Brewery’s Visitor Center people had gathered to watch Game 2 in the Giants/Cubs series.
This is a sequel to my story about the burning of Lone Tree. Maybe ten or twelve years later, along about 1993, my daughter Wendy had gone off to college (not at 18, but a…
ABOUT 2PM SUNDAY a half-dozen people chanting demands to save the forests walked briskly through Boonville. Four men carrying a redwood sapling were the focus of the group's display, and a couple of people appeared to be dressed in green, lending the procession a vaguely druidic cast. Spotting my young friend Miguel across the street near Boont Berry Farm just as the funereal mini-procession passed from view, I asked him what had just happened. "Heepies," he explained without elaborating.
The many followers of the Valley’s restaurant world are still buzzing about the recent happenings, in particular about The Buckhorn, Boonville, and Stone and Embers continuing to swirl in a tornado of gossip and rumor, plus, unfortunately, a few completely untrue fabrications and falsehoods. Fortunately, I have the facts from the ‘horses’ mouths’ so to speak. The owner of The Buckhorn, Tom Towey, is planning to respond to this confusion and misunderstanding with an explanation that will be appear in next week’s AVA. This should clear up much of the silliness over the last two weeks regarding his closing.
It’s been a strange couple of weeks in terms of the recent restaurant developments, with many Valley folks swapping stories and tales on this topic at the various events and social gatherings that I have…