Article: Hotel Healdsburg.(Restaurant review)

By Kate Leahy, Senior Associate Editor

Healdsburg, Calif.

During a recent weekly conference call, restaurateur and Chef Charlie Palmer challenged his chefs de cuisine to add spring ingredients to menus at all of his restaurants. Dry Creek Kitchen-Palmer's restaurant within Hotel Healdsburg-responded with a spring-pea ravioli paired with local baby carrots, black trumpet mushrooms, shavings of pecorino cheese and a carrot-yuzu froth.

'The menu is an ongoing collaboration between Charlie and myself,' explains Michael Ellis, Dry Creek Kitchen's chef de cuisine. But Ellis says he is constantly changing the menu, too. 'I have a network of local farmers,' he says. ...

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