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Article: Vintage Napa Valley.(hotels and restaurants)(Recipe)(Directory)
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- October 1, 2000
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The ultimate guide to unparalleled inns, restaurants, and bargains--plus recipes for creating your own sublime wine Country picnic FRIDAY NIGHT in downtown Napa, California. Cole's Chop House, to be exact.
A crowd mingles in the bar, the host fields telephone calls, and a waiter hoists a steak the size of home plate to a hungry diner.
"Downtown has been starved for something like this," Greg Cole says, describing his eponymous restaurant. Cole understands one secret of Napa Valley success: pairing perfectly prepared classics, in this case a local Cabernet with an artfully aged steak, to make a sublime marriage of food and wine. Open less than a year, ...