The Forbes Journey Information has honored Montage Resort and SingleThread Farms and Restaurant, each in Healdsburg, with its high five-star luxurious score in 2024. A number of further native institutions have garnered Forbes’s four-star scores or been really helpful as a part of the journal’s just lately unveiled Star Award Winners record.
Forbes describes these annual awards as an “impartial, international score system for luxurious motels, eating places, spas and ocean cruise ships.” The journal’s Star Score system places an emphasis on reviewing service high quality.
“Ensconced among the many vineyards in Sonoma, Montage Healdsburg immerses you in wine nation,” wrote Forbes. “The resort, which debuted in January 2021, seamlessly blends into the panorama, with its 130 rooms tucked into bungalows that bear the identical shade of brown because the heritage oaks that cloak them.”
The Montage Resort has a popularity for attracting the wealthy and well-known to its 250-acre property nestled within the hills above Healdsburg. In response to The Hollywood Reporter, pop star Justin Bieber and his spouse, Hailey Bieber, are among the many high-profile visitors who’ve just lately stayed on the property.
Amongst its luxurious choices, the resort boasts a 4,600-square-foot lodging referred to as the Visitor Home, priced at $15,000 an evening. Catering to well-heeled vacationers, the resort’s “The Sky’s the Restrict” package deal, which runs as much as $95,000, consists of non-public jet flights from anyplace in the US.
Along with its five-star score of the Montage Resort, Forbes additionally highlighted the Montage Spa and the resort’s restaurant, Hazel Hill, with their very personal four-star scores.
The 11,500-square foot Montage Spa consists of 11 remedy rooms, a health heart and a zero-edge pool.
The French-inspired Hazel Hill gives breakfast and lunch, however it’s the restaurant’s dinner menu that steals the present.
“The open kitchen at Hazel Hill makes use of native, seasonal substances to craft dishes like plump gnocchi with fava beans, morel mushrooms and white asparagus together with tender Liberty Farms duck breast with rhubarb, turnips and a sprinkle of pistachios,” wrote Forbes.
A brief drive south of Montage, situated in downtown Healdsburg, SingleThread is the one three-star Michelin restaurant in Sonoma County. Run by husband-and-wife crew chef Kyle Connaughton and farmer Katina Connaughton, the restaurant additionally has a five-room inn the place visitors can keep the evening. (Forbes individually included the inn in its “really helpful” record of locations to remain.)
“To name SingleThread Farms a restaurant is akin to calling Buckingham Palace merely a home. This temple of haute delicacies in Sonoma County’s quaint city of Healdsburg delivers on the oft over-used promise of ‘farm to desk,’” wrote Forbes.
Sourcing substances from its 24-acre biodiverse farm within the Dry Creek Valley, SingleThread serves a kaiseki-style 11-course menu.
“The Japanese philosophy of omotenashi — a deep sense of hospitality the place a visitor’s each want is anticipated — permeates each side of the fine-dining room, from the service to the artfully offered plates,” wrote Forbes.
Sonoma’s MacArthur Place Resort and Spa obtained two separate four-star scores from Forbes: one for the whole property and one other for the just lately refurbished Spa at MacArthur. Forbes additionally really helpful the property’s restaurant, Layla.
Extra Sonoma County luxurious institutions that have been really helpful by Forbes embrace Farmhouse Inn and Farmhouse Inn Restaurant in Forestville and Resort Les Mars in Healdsburg.
The Forbes Journey Information additionally handed out a plethora of awards to luxurious motels and eating places in Napa this yr, which embrace five-star scores for Auberge du Soleil, 4 Seasons Resort and Residences, The French Laundry, Meadowood Napa Valley and Meadowood Spa.
Forbes Journey Information Star Award inspectors charge properties primarily based on as much as 900 goal standards, in accordance with Forbes. The inspectors are at all times nameless and spend a minimum of two days staying on the motels they evaluate. See the entire record of 2024 awardees right here.
