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Thomas Keller's The French Laundry is the most famous dining room in Napa Valley, a three-Michelin-star restaurant in a stone cottage in Yountville that lands on "world's best" lists year after year. Reservations are famously hard to secure, released in small batches and gone in moments.

Dinner is a single multi-course tasting menu that changes daily, built around whatever the garden across the street and the day's markets give the kitchen. It is precise, formal, and quietly theatrical, the kind of meal people plan trips, and anniversaries, around.

The wine program matches the food: one of the great cellars of California, poured by a team that treats pairing as part of the menu's architecture. Come ready to let them guide you, and expect the bottle, whichever one ends up on the table, to be part of the story of the night.