After he closed Cyrus, the Healdsburg, Calif., restaurant for which he’d earned two Michelin stars, in 2012, it took the chef Douglas Keane a decade to scout the dream locale for his new restaurant.
Mr. Keane finally landed last year at a former prune-packing plant overlooking vineyards where the Russian River snakes through the Alexander Valley.
Those vineyards are not in Healdsburg, Sonoma County’s unofficial gastronomic headquarters, but eight miles north in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Geyserville.
“Geyserville is real, rural wine country: Farmers are out at 5 a.m.,” said the 52-year-old chef on what drew him to the town.
The whole town may be just two blocks of Wild West-looking storefronts, but its charms take an entire weekend to uncover.
Persons:
Cyrus, he’d, Douglas Keane, Keane, ”
Organizations:
Michelin
Locations:
Calif, Alexander, Healdsburg, Sonoma