Cheap Eats: Pizza and Pinot at Estate in Sonoma
Sondra Bernstein (who also owns The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma and The Fig Café in Glen Ellen) opened Estate in Sonoma in a recession. A daring move for any restaurateur, but good news for frugal customers. The regular menu isn’t cheap (entrees are roughly $10-$25 each) but in order to attract a local clientele during hard times, she began a Pizza and Pinot promotion—a 12″ pizza and a glass or Pinot Noir or Pinot Grigio for $10 (available only in the bar, porch and patio lounge).
“It has been an incredible success for us,” she says. “We started it a couple of months ago to try to get guests to come to our new restaurant. We opened a month before the economic woes started freaking people out. We knew that we would have to do something aggressive. Our guests are embracing the promotion and what we thought may be short lived will continue indefinitely until we stop doing it.”
The pizza is oak fired and you have your choice of white pizza (baugna cauda, pecorino, garlic, greens, chili flakes); red pizza (roasted garlic, four cheese, balsamic onions), margherita pizza (mozzarella, tomato sauce, basil, parmigiano) or a daily chef’s special pizza.
400 West Spain Street
Sonoma
707-933-3663
