Auberge du Soleil Dinner, Napa, California
Frank and I joined my parents for dinner at Napa’s beautiful Auberge du Soleil last Friday. My dad’s company, Save Mart Supermarkets, sponsors a Nascar race–The Toyota/Save Mart Supermarkets 350–in Sonoma every year, and they make a weekend of the event. Last year, dinner was at the Pine Ridge Winery, where we got to have dinner 150 feet under the grape vines. So cool!
The dinner was a joint function between Save Mart and General Mills, who sponsors race car driver Bobby Labonte. He drives car #43 and he sat out our table. We got to ask him all sorts of racing questions and I found out that their cars only get about 4.5 miles to the gallon! Oh my! He’s a very nice, down-to-earth guy. We don’t really watch Nascar, but we will definitely root for him from now on.
This year’s dinner at Auberge du Soleil was equally yum! The dessert was to-die-for! Christina Aguilera even had her wedding rehearsal dinner and stayed there when she got married in Napa a few years ago. It’s a beautiful place! We hope to go back some day!
A picture before dinner. The view was gorgeous–you could see the entire Napa valley. But it was soooo hot that day!
