The Top 11 Cocktail Bars Near Augie’s French
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Rank 1. Grossman’s Noshery & Bar
NY-Style American Cocktail Bar
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Rank 2. Hazel Hill
Californian French
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Rank 3. Layla
Mediterranean
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Rank 4. The Matheson
Mediterranean New American
The Matheson is a splashy, high-ceilinged restaurant in Healdsburg where the kitchen does genuinely clever things with California produce and Mediterranean ideas, and the wine program pours over a hundred options by the glass from some kind of fancy tech system. The crowd leans wine-country weekend, well-dressed but relaxed about it. This is a real dinner-out spot, not a quick bite, and the cooking earns the occasion.
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Rank 5. North Block
New American
Attached to the luxury hotel of the same name, North Block is the kind of Yountville restaurant where you can actually relax, order wood-fired pizza and a local pour, and feel like wine country is delivering on its promise. The room is airy and unfussy, the crowd dressed in that particular Napa way where "casual" still means nice shoes. Seafood, pasta, and pizza all get equal attention, and the caramel budino is genuinely worth saving room for.
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Rank 6. Little Saint
Vegetarian
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Rank 7. Winston's Cafe & Bakery
Filipino Cocktail Bar
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Rank 8. Chispa
Latin American
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Rank 9. Giaco's Valley Roadhouse
Farm-to-Table Italian Cocktail Bar
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Rank 10. Guesthouse
Contemporary New American
Kentfield's answer to "let's go somewhere nice but not weird about it," Guesthouse is a polished neighborhood restaurant where Marin's million-dollar-home crowd goes to feel casually fancy. The room pulls off that trick of feeling both roomy and intimate, with leather booths and a tiled bar that make it easy to stay longer than planned. The cocktails are genuinely good, and the food is comforting in an elevated way.
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Rank 11. Scoma's
Seafood
Scoma's is a classic waterfront seafood restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf that earns its reputation the old-fashioned way: generations of Bay Area families keep coming back, and they're not wrong to. The wood-paneled bar, white-jacketed servers, and walls of celebrity headshots set the scene. Get the cioppino or the chowder, order something from the sea, and don't overthink it.
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