3 Best Restaurants in Forestville, Napa and Sonoma

A longtime Bay Area caterer opened this retail shop serving soups, salads, sandwiches, and a few entrées to go or eat indoors or on the front patio. Supplementing staples like turkey, tri-tip, and roasted portobello sandwiches—the Caesar salad is a town favorite—are surprise items, says the owner, "we just feel like cooking, like pot roast when it rains or Thai wraps on sunny days."

Anchored by a large heated patio adjoining the pool, the Farmhouse Inn's casual all-day restaurant serves farm-to-table cuisine with ingredients as local as the herbs and vegetables from the on-site culinary garden and livestock from an owners' nearby ranch. Look for avocado toast, brioche French toast, and the hearty farmer's plate (eggs, meat, potatoes) for breakfast, smoked salmon salad and the sandwich du jour for lunch, and quail, bass, or a pork chop for dinner.

"Gorgeous, mouth-watering, over-the-top incredible" pizzas are the mission of this casual-contemporary, wide-windowed restaurant in downtown Forestville. The two types of pies—thicker ones cooked in a wood-fired oven and thinner ones with cold-fermented dough baked in an electric oven—live up to their billing, with tapas, meatballs, salads like the seasonal burrata-and-beets, and other small plates among the nonpizza alternatives.