California Wine Country" opens with the history of winemaking in the state and explains how and why Californian wines have become famous around the world. Leffingwell then guides readers through the winemaking cycle and takes them on a personal tour of the state's most breathtaking and popular wine making regions. 300 color photos.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, explore San Francisco, Napa Valley and Sonoma County, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Road Trips: Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Marin County, Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Russian River, Bohemian Highway and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Road Trips is perfect for exploring the San Francisco Bay Area in the classic American way - by road trip! About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
This area offers everything from historic sights to stunning natural scenery. Whether you want to take a ferry out to the infamous Alcatraz Island, weekend in the Wine Country or hike through the Muir woods, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that San Francisco and the Bay Area have to offer. A city famed for its seven steep hills, San Francisco’s peaks offer unparalleled views over its diverse neighbourhoods, from the historic houses of Alamo to the lantern-adorned alleys of Chinatown. In the surrounding Bay Area, visitors will find lush vineyards, picturesque towns and breathtaking natural wonders. Our newly updated guide brings San Francisco and the Bay Area to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights and advice, detailed information on all the must-see sights, inspiring photography and our trademark illustrations. You'll discover: • our pick of San Francisco and the Bay Area’s must-sees, top experiences and hidden gems • the best spots to eat, drink, shop and stay • detailed maps and walks which make navigating the region easy • easy-to-follow itineraries • expert advice: get ready, get around and stay safe • color-coded chapters to every part of San Francisco and the Bay Area • our new lightweight format, so you can take it with you wherever you go Want the best of San Francisco in your pocket? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 San Francisco. Seeing more of the state? Try our DK Eyewitness California.
Completely revised and updated Every trail rehiked, with 13 new hikes and 80 new photos GPS driving directions to every trailhead No one knows this premier hiking region better than author John Soares, who now offers his fourth and fully updated edition of 100 Classic Hikes: Northern California. And while he’s still in love with many of the old trails, some of them have become unsafe or less accessible. The good news is that this gave him the chance to fall for some new trails, which are happily now included in this new edition. The old-growth forests and multiple mountain ranges of Northern California beckon the 10 million urban inhabitants of the Bay Area—who need outdoor experiences BADLY! This new edition not only gets them to the best of nature not far from their door, but looks tremendous on an urban coffee table, too. New hikes in this edition include: 2 in the Bay Area, including the Coastal Trail in San Francisco 5 in the Redwoods and along the coast north of the Bay Area 4 in the Sierra Nevada, including two summits: Ellis Peak and Sierra Buttes 2 in the Russian Wilderness in the Klamath Mountains
This eBook version of the MICHELIN Guide San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country 2014 helps both locals and travelers find great places to eat, with meticulously researched, objective recommendations to approximately 540 delicious restaurants in San Francisco proper, and from Sonoma County to the South Bay, representing 40+ diverse cuisines. The MICHELIN Guide, updated annually, pleases all palates and pocketbooks and is easy to use with multiple, user-friendly listings. Recession-proof dining options can be found among the Under $25 restaurants and those with the Bib Gourmand designation—a distinction that highlights inspectors' favorites for good food at reasonable prices. Local, anonymous, professional inspectors use the renowned Michelin food star rating system to create the restaurant selection, with its famed Michelin stars indicating culinary excellence. In this eBook you’ll find: • Reviews of delicious restaurants for every budget—all grouped by neighborhood for easy, spur-of-the-moment decision-making. • Extensive lists of restaurants where one can dine for Under $25 as well as the Bib Gourmand selection for budget-conscious diners seeking culinary quality at a good value. A Bib Gourmand restaurant offers two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less (tax and gratuity not included). • Many user-friendly indexes facilitating informed decision-making include eateries listed from A-Z, starred restaurants, cuisine by category, cuisine by neighborhood, and restaurants offering brunch. • Time-tested Michelin symbols for easy reference: Michelin stars indicate culinary excellence while the couverts (fork and spoon) indicate the level of comfort. • For a special treat, look for restaurants with notable cocktail, sake, beer or wine lists—there's a dedicated symbol for each. Download onto any kind of eReader (tablet or smartphone), and you’re set to go. Use the guide to orient yourself at any time with 18 detailed maps showing the exact location of each establishment, even if you’re offline with no Wi-Fi or 3G connection. With the interactive navigation, it’s easy to move within the guide. Click from an index to the restaurant or from an establishment to its location on the map. With one touch, you can even phone the restaurant directly from the page or click through to a website for more information. No matter what eReader you use, with the MICHELIN Guide San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country 2014eBook, you have what you need to enjoy a great dining experience.
Showcasing 17 stunning residences in California wine country designed by top architects and designers. Through compelling narrative and stunning photography, authors Heather Hebert and Chase Ewald feature the architecture, style, and design of 17 homes—plus 4 unique auxiliary structures—in California’s picturesque wine country. At Home in the Wine Country showcases the work of many of California’s top architects and designers, with styles ranging from modern farmhouse to refined rustic to updated agrarian to unapologetically modern. This virtual tour documents a native, terroir-derived style that has evolved dramatically since the days when the region looked to European chateaux for inspiration. These ranges of styles—as well the varied approaches to managing environmental factors—is broad and captivating and pays homage to wine-country living in an atmosphere of understated, family-focused hospitality. The California wine country is a region without distinct edges. In recent decades, this region has come to be defined by its lifestyle just as much as its wines. It has developed its own ethos, one whose contemporary expression is creative, sustainably minded, art-filled, and bathed in light. It has a youthful attitude and a decided sense of fun. Central to this distinct way of life is the indoor-outdoor experience; today’s homes seamlessly integrate the region’s sublime scenery and climate with its cuisine and lifestyle. At Home in the Wine Country pays homage to a region that is ever innovating, adapting, and evolving and showcases the best of design and lifestyle in California's iconic landscapes.
The MICHELIN Guide contains a selection of more than 500 quality restaurants based on anonymous visits made by our team of professional, local inspectors. Here you will find only the best places to fit your budget and culinary cravings. Here's how it works : Our inspectors visit hundreds of establishments every year and evaluate each one according to a rigorous set of criteria ; Only the best restaurants and hotels in each category are included in the guide; every establishment is a trusted Michelin recommendation ; Our selection represents a wide variety of styles, price ranges, and cuisine types ; Considering décor, ambience, and service, our inspectors classify restaurants by comfort, with 'one flatware' indicating a modest establishment and ' five flatware', the most luxurious ; The restaurants that stand out for the exceptional quality of their cuisine are awarded Michelin stars, the highest honor in the culinary industry ; Special symbols, such as the Bib Gourmand, indicate our inspectors' favorites for great food at reasonable prices ; Our extensive list of places to eat for $25 or less is perfect when both quality and price matter ; Our inspectors offer their tested selection of 5mall Plates as a dining option, indicated by 'plate'. Our inspection process has been refined over decades so you can feel confident in selecting a Michelin-recommended restaurant. No matter what the occasion, the MICHELIN Guide will help you make the right choice.
Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.