In the last two weeks we have offered the special menus being served New Year’s Eve in Sonoma Valley restaurants. Almost all of your favorite bars will be open to help you celebrate, with HopMonk and Steiner’s offering music. Be sure to call your favorite to make sure they are open.
If you are at all concerned about the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, your kitchen, or another room in your home might be the best place to dine and celebrate.
Reel & Brand
Kevin Kress is still planning his big New Year’s Eve Party at Reel & Brand featuring Spike’s Awesome Hot Cakes, along with dinner and dancing to live music from 8 p.m. to midnight. Regular menu plus a fried calamari special appetizer. "$10 music charge goes straight to the band," according to Kress.
When asked if Reel & Brand would go ahead with these plans, Kress emailed "The grocery store could be a super spreader location as well. We don’t engage in politics, just fun and good food, we allow people to make their own choices as to what they do." 401 Grove St., Sonoma.
Community Breakfast
The Valley of the Moon Knights of Columbus host their first Sunday of the month Community Breakfast this Sunday, Jan. 2, served both inside Father Robert’s Hall and to-go.
This month’s special is $5 mimosas in addition to great sausages, scrambled eggs, potatoes, French toast, pancakes, sautéed vegetables, sautéed potatoes, fruit salad and Aunt Momo’s dressy donut holes. $10 adults, $5 kids, $25 family. 8 to 10:30 a.m.
Apparently last month the club decided to make breakfast free as a surprise to their regulars. It tuned out that most of the regulars insisted on paying anyway, so the Knights donated the $1,240 to Sweetwater Spectrum, “our community based, long term housing solution for adults with Autism or similar intellectual developmental disabilities,” according to Brendan Roche.
For more ways to celebrate, read last week’s column.
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