Healdsburg and Berkeley, November 7, 2009—
TAMALES FOR LUNCH, bought from Mateo Granados's stand at the Healdsburg Farm Market. Delicious. We took 'em home, frozen; steamed 'em and warmed up the red sauce and ate them greedily. Mateo was at one time chef at Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen, in the Hotel Healdsburg; I'm glad he's set up on his own; he's much more accessible, and what a cook. But where to eat dinner, in Berkeley, on a Saturday night, the streets crowded after a home football game, and having go go on to an eight o'clock concert? Our friends declined a second Mexican meal, so Picante was out; Corso was jammed; Bistro Liason was jammed; Chez Panisse was ruled out for the same reason. We would up at a place new to me, Cioccolata Divino, not terribly comfortable seating but okay salad and pasta (wide tagliarini, loose sausage) and an interesting wine list.
Montepulciano D'Abruzzo, Cantina Tollo Valle D' Oro, 2005
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