Today started with coffee from the shop across the street. We delayed leaving the hotel until we thought that the breakfast crowd at Hank’s Creekside would be gone and then headed the short distance to our favourite breakfast place. This was our fourth visit to Hank’s and my favourite place to get a Benny. Today was no different and I had a half order of Eggs Benedict and Mum had a poached egg with a biscuit and fruit.
One thing that we love about Hank’s, besides the food, of course, is its location. We are able to head out of town towards Wine Country without any issue – today was no different. We jumped onto CA-12 and headed east to the Sonoma Valley. In prior years we have gone up to Healdsburg and St. Helena, but on this trip, we decided to concentrate on just visiting the Sonoma Valley. We drove down through Glen Ellen and Kenwood before we reached the town of Sonoma. We lucked out and were able to find a parking spot (in the shade) right across from the Sonoma Plaza.
We walked around the Plaza as I took pictures of some of the flowers and also met a trio of women who asked me to take their picture. We wandered around the outside of the plaza and stopped in a few of our regular haunts, but for some reason, we just didn’t find it was as charming as it had been in prior visits. We were unable to grab a coffee at Basque Boulangerie as there was a line-up that was almost out the door and Wine Country Chocolates didn’t seem to hold its same charm. We left Sonoma and headed back to Glen Ellen in search for somewhere to sit and have a beverage. We tried finding somewhere at Jack London’s Village but found it all but closed up – turns out that Tuesday is a bad day to find things open. We stopped at a small market in Kenwood where Mum was able to grab a Diet Pepsi before we headed back to the hotel.
We spent some time at the hotel – mainly cooling off with the beautiful A/C – and then headed to dinner. We decided to go back to Russian River Pub in Forestville – a place we had visited in 2013 and a restaurant from the first DDD episode. Mum had the pesto chicken sandwich with a salad and I had the Tri-Tip Sandwich with a salad. Both of these were featured on the Triple D episode. At least we were able to end our day on a high note.
We came back to the hotel after dinner and decided to have an early night. Tomorrow we are heading to Winters for breakfast at Putah Creek Cafe and then on to Chico.
Thank you for reading and I will talk to you soon.
L