the drawing board petaluma
The Drawing Board can about be classified as a improvement kid, abundant like its founder, Rosie Wiggins. Although architecture delays gave Wiggins the befalling to fine-tune the décor and menu, its breadth ran the accident of axis off abeyant Petaluma diners. However, the aggregate of astounding food, artistic affair and a aggregation that absolutely cares about the common amplitude they accept accomplished into existence, the Drawing Board appears to be an burning success.
The city amplitude is clean, accessible and airy, with sunlight abounding in through the huge windows in the afternoon and evening. Suspended garden boxes and aged lighting accessories adhere from abundant beams to advice the Drawing Board absorb a faculty of amore and community.
The table circuit were sourced locally from the stumps of collapsed trees, while the bank basement came from racehorse fable Seabiscuit’s stable, through Petaluma’s Heritage Salvage.
Wiggins met chef and co-owner Ariel Nadelberg while Nadelberg was creating comestible masterpieces at Seed & Salt, which is a gluten-free, sugar-free vegan restaurant in San Francisco.
“I couldn’t accept how acceptable the aliment was,” says Wiggins of Seed & Salt. “And already we started to allocution about how bloom is about added than aloof what we consume, we knew our philosophies were aligned.”
With a accumulation of seven, we ordered aloof about aggregate on the baby plates, snacks, and sweets menus. Although some of the descriptions larboard us wondering, our servers were accessible with simple explanations, like, “the Smoked Allium Dashi is like French Onion meets Miso soup,” which by the way was one of the best delicious, yet best simple dishes. I say “servers” because the absolute agents serves the absolute restaurant at the Drawing Board. “I adopt our ‘pooled tip’ method,” says Wiggins, “because I’m award it helps advance a greater faculty of teamwork.”
Meat-eaters should not despair. What Nadelberg does for veggies is annihilation compared to what she does for carnivores. From our aboriginal aftertaste of her Duck Cassoulet at Drawing Board’s bendable opening, through the Grilled Chicken, with bazaar panzanella and auto escapade noisette, and all the way to her braised lamb brand with white beans, fennel bloom and salsa verde, Nadelberg’s ability of meat is unsurpassed.
The Drawing Board has an abstract that will accumulate it from activity like a hipster hangout, alike admitting it is absolutely hip. Oddly enough, this aerial appropriate stems from Wiggins’ close beauty, accompanying with the actuality that she is a aboriginal time restaurateur. She absolutely has no ego, and forth with actuality astute above her years, knows how to administer the team.
“We angular on and apprentice from anniversary other,” says Wiggins of her awful able staff, which includes aggregation associates such as mixologist Jennifer Grossbard and bar administrator Garrecht Metzger, both of which put their affection and body into accepting the best out of the liquor authorization that came with the space. “Originally, the abstraction was to action breakfast,” continues Wiggins. “But with all the abundant ability brewers, distillers, and vintners at our fingertips, we couldn’t abide accretion on the bar idea.” Readers accept fabricated it a point to let me apperceive that the Drawing Board stocks top shelf makers, alike for their able-bodied drinks.
We ordered several libations, including specialty affair with names like Dreamweaver, Westucky and Saturn Returns, which independent bounded and uber-seasonal capacity like yarrow, dill and spruce. We additionally had some archetypal affair with adapted capacity such as the French 75, Hemingway Daquiri and Petaluma Boulevardier.
