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Nella Kitchen & Bar is the restaurant inside the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn in Los Olivos, run by the team behind S.Y. Kitchen, and it brings the same instincts to a smaller, inn-side dining room. It is the meal at the end of a Grand Avenue tasting day, steps from a dozen winery doors.

The cooking is Italian-inspired wine country fare, headlined by Roman-style pinsas, the crisp, oval flatbreads that have become its signature. A full cocktail program runs alongside, unusual depth for a town this size, and the patio catches the evening light beautifully.

Corkage is $35 a bottle with no limit. In the middle of Los Olivos, that makes Nella an easy place to open the day's best purchase.