On our 2nd full day in wine country, we decided to explore the Sonoma countryside including Seghesio Winery, Mazzocco and Papapietro. For lunch, the girls decided on Rustic at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery especially since we had to cancel the previous nights dinner due to... Nuvi navigational issues. The winery itself is huge even by Napa standards with many costumes and trinkets are on display from movies directed by the owner himself. Of course while strolling the grounds, I had to continually go into my rendition of Marlon Brando as Don Corleone to the dismay of my traveling companions.
Once again I started with my cocktail of choice:
We then sampled some of the vegetable side dishes including Sauteed Broccoli Rabe and Sauteed Escarole along with Table Fries for the Mrs.
K chose the Rack of Lamb Madame Bali which was pomegranate and onion marinated for 3 days before being grilled. TENDER in capitals and bold faced!
The Mrs selected Mrs Scorsese's Lemon Chicken - supposedly fellow director Martin Scorsese's mother's recipe. Tender and simple though very GOOD!
D ordered the Spaghetti Carbonara Classico
While I selected the Pizza Sofia (my guess it refers to Sofia Coppola, the director's daughter and Nicolas Cage's cousin). I had to try the pizza since Coppola brought a mega $$$ pizza oven from the old country along with a pizza chef from the old country. It was a simple pizza with proscuitto, arugula and Parmigiano but with that great crackly, charred crust.
We skipped dessert since we had diner reservations at BarnDiva later that evening... but low and behold, I crapped out. Too much food, too much wine. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
Rustic at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery
300 Via Archimedes
Geyserville, CA 95441
(707) 857-1485
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Open Daily
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