Visitors Share Favourite Recollections
SANTA ROSA, CA, August 24, 2022— Regardless of its unique location being misplaced within the October 2017 Tubbs Fireplace, Willi’s Wine Bar marks its 20th anniversary. The beloved roadhouse was the primary of Mark and Terri Stark’s seven extremely awarded eating places in Sonoma County, California. The James Beard Award nominated husband and spouse restaurateurs acknowledged the milestone by inviting visitors to share their favourite reminiscences and photographs of Willi’s Wine Bar over time by way of the restaurant’s social media platforms for the previous month. A drawing was held to pick twenty submitters and their visitors to hitch a family and friends anniversary occasion held on the restaurant final week.
“We’re all in want of a superb celebration as of late and a method that we thought to unfold the great emotions was to ask our visitors to share their fondest reminiscences of Willi’s Wine Bar over time,” mentioned Terri Stark. “We’ve heard from dozens of visitors about every little thing from Willi’s being a favourite after-work hangout to first dates, birthdays, proposals, promenade dinners, and every little thing in between. One trio of pals even recreated a photograph that appeared of them in our native paper once we first opened twenty years in the past.”
Initially launched in August 2002, Willi’s was the primary of the now seven eating places owned and operated by Chef Mark and Terri Stark, proprietors of the Stark Actuality Restaurant group. It was among the many first Sonoma County eating places to introduce the “small plates” idea, sometimes paired with all kinds of choose native wines. After the 1886 landmark roadhouse location on Outdated Redwood Freeway was misplaced within the Tubbs Fireplace of 2017, the Starks re-opened Willi’s in Might 2019 in its new location on the City & Nation Middle in Santa Rosa’s McDonald Mansion neighborhood.
The eating scene in Sonoma County, and definitely in Santa Rosa, was very totally different when Mark & Terri opened their flagship restaurant in 2002. There have been a number of white tablecloth high-quality eating spots, a few Italian dinner homes and lots of informal bar and grill-type institutions, however nothing that mixed a relaxed vibe with upscale meals, wine, and ambiance.
“The concept of specializing in small plates stemmed from Terri’s and my choice to take a seat on the bar and solely order the appetizers,” says Mark. Pairing worldwide small plates with an in depth array of wines by the style, glass, and bottle has confirmed to be an everlasting favourite of Willi’s Wine Bar clients, and the employees is adept at creating simply the fitting match for diners.
Lately, the Wine Bar has expanded to supply traditional and craft cocktails.
Proper out of the gate, the restaurant received recognition for its wine record from the Wine Spectator, the primary of many native and nationwide accolades together with Michelin Bib Gourmand awards and spots on the San Francisco Chronicle’s High 100 Bay Space Eating places.
“We’re so grateful for our long-term visitors and our employees,” says Terri. “They had been those who completely wouldn’t let Willi’s Wine Bar die. We couldn’t see attempting to re-create the unique Willi’s, so we discovered a approach to deliver lots of the issues that folks beloved about Willi’s again and even reap the benefits of some alternatives {that a} new location offered. We wouldn’t be right here with out our supporters, and it was essential to us to make them a part of our celebration.”
For extra details about Willi’s Wine Bar and Mark and Terri Stark, go to www.williswinebar.internet or name 707.526.3096.
Willi’s Wine Bar is situated at 1415 City and Nation Drive in Santa Rosa, California and is open day-after-day from 11:30am to 9:00pm.
