Downtown Sonoma at Night
The El Dorado Hotel looks like it’s probably close to 100 years old and has a gorgeous little restaurant inside and a beautiful little coffee shop. The restaurant looks like it serves food at least until 10 o’clock. There’s also a bar downtown called Steiners. Steiners says it was established 1927 and when you look inside the bars going even late at night, it looks like somewhere that’s been running continuously since 1927. There’s also a movie theater downtown that looks like it comes out of a movie. It was also built in the 1920s or the 1930s. It reminds me of the type of movie theaters I used to go to when I was a kid. There’s only one movie playing at any time. There’s also a cute pizza place that was open until 10pm and a few other bars and a Ben & Jerry’s.
On the Sonoma Square is also an adorable restaurant called The Girl & the Fig. We’ve been meaning to eat there for awhile and maybe, we’ll still get there this weekend. It looks like it probably doesn’t seat more than 20 or 30 diners in one half and another 20 people can be seated on the bar on the other side, and it gives off a warm glow o a winter’s night. There’s another bar that’s open at a place called the Swiss Hotel and there’s also a pizza place called Mary’s Pizza. There have a big sign out front showing they also sell cocktails. There’s a place called the Sonoma Cheese Factory that’s been manufacturing cheese that looks like it’s close to 100 years also.
The movie theatre as we just drove by it again is called the Sebastiani Theater. There’s also a hotel called the Ledson Hotel which looks like it simply has a restaurant and bar in it and no longer is an actual hotel. It’s one of the most beautiful buildings on the Sonoma Square.
The city hall of Sonoma which sits in the center of the square is also another gorgeous building, kinda reminds me of the movie “Back to the Future”. On the corner of 2nd Street West and Napa, just a little bit off of the main square, I also passed one of my favorite places in the world, The Black Bear Diner. I’ve literally driven hundreds of miles out of my way to get to eat at one before. Right next to The Black Bear Diner we also spotted a (???). It closes earlier than the ones in other parts of the country and at 9:30pm, it was already shut down.
