October 25, 2026 – January 23, 2027 The Next 90 Days in Sonoma County

Forty-five wineries pairing food to wine on their own ground, right as the cellars finish this year's ferments — the last big county-wide tasting weekend before the holidays take over the calendar.

Falls on the Sunday of this coming weekend — a free community event worth building a Sonoma weekend around if the Wine & Food Affair the following Saturday is the bigger anchor.

Three Michelin stars and a Green Star, cooking from the Stone Edge Farm gardens steps from the table. The next release (last Friday of November) opens January dates — mark it now.

New owners José López Núñez and Marta Elena Echeverría Bacab are a year into running the kitchen they bought from retiring founder Saul Gropman — a good month to see a 25-year room settled under its new hands.

First holiday-marketplace event of the season on this calendar — a marker that the county's turning from harvest to holiday mode.

Food-truck chef Dino Moniodis — "The Greek" — is running five-course Greek tasting dinners here as a residency of unconfirmed length. Go before it's gone.

Reopened July 29 after a May SUV crash, same owner and chef, menu unchanged — the dependable downtown Monday table, running at full strength again.

The right stop after a Wine & Food Affair day in Alexander Valley — wood-fired and house-cured, built for a crowd coming off a tasting circuit.

Chef Jeremy Zimmerman's live-fire kitchen, from the Girl & The Fig / Poppy team, is still finding its full audience after its July opening — a genuinely new way to eat on Sonoma Plaza.

Two Michelin Bib Gourmands and a natural-wine list that's shifting toward structured reds as the season turns — a good Plaza stop before or after the Dia de los Muertos events.

On-property cured and smoked pastrami in a room that works as a genuine neighborhood hub — a solid anchor if Santa Rosa is the base for the month.

Jordanian, Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese cooking with Greek, Turkish, Spanish, and Moroccan touches — genuinely new on a stretch of Montgomery Village that's churned through several short-lived concepts.

A farm staking its own paid-event calendar on this stretch of the season — Gold Ridge pulled fresh olive oil on Oct 24 and is now running fermentation workshops, a direct read on what's actually at peak right now.

Reported open by two outlets that trace to one syndicated story — a second, independent source would move this straight onto the main list. Worth a direct check before planning around it this month.

Chef Stéphane Saint Louis's steak frites is built for exactly this stretch of the calendar, and the Monday table is nearly unique among Petaluma's serious bistros.

Tomales Bay oysters at a dollar apiece, every Monday, no exceptions — the standing value anchor for this whole 30-day window.

The county's clearest marker that December has arrived — the plaza fills with the same crowd that was tasting at Wine & Food Affair a month earlier, now in coats.

One of the only two-Michelin-Key rooms in the county still seating Monday dinner through the holidays — useful when Thanksgiving week scatters everyone else's hours.

This year's switch to an à la carte format means a Thanksgiving-week Monday dinner here is actually bookable, which the old prix-fixe structure never allowed.

Four months into service and settled — a reliable new weeknight option for a stretch of the calendar when most households aren't cooking elaborate dinners anyway.

The only Kenwood kitchen open seven nights a week — a dependable table through the stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas when most valley rooms thin their schedules.

The county's winter release weekend, booking now for a January date almost three months out — exactly the kind of event this far-ahead section exists to flag before it sells through.

A coastal-foraging dinner at the edge of Tomales Bay in the dead of winter, when the bay's at its most dramatic — worth watching for the reservation link to open.

By January, Hazel will be five months into its relocated space — a good season to catch a West County kitchen once it's fully found its footing, away from the Winter Wineland crowds further north.

A fitting pair with the Jan 21 Coastal Foragers Dinner down the road at Tony's, or a quieter alternative on the same weekend as Winter Wineland further inland.

A simple, reliable lunch stop if Winter Wineland's wineries leave the afternoon open — Graton's version of the neighborhood table everyone actually uses.