Not long after I returned to Napa and went to work for the Register in 1999, I got a call from KQED, the public television station in San Francisco, asking me if I’d like to come down and watching ...

After a year of waiting, chef Michael Chiarello has reopened the V Marketplace space formerly inhabited by his NapaStyle shop as an Italian marketplace called Ottimo, where people can shop, sip, eat ...

To a nation of foodies, Michael Chiarello is a god, albeit an approachable one ? prone to endearingly calling women ?sweetheart,? men ?buddy? or ?amigo.? Catch the longtime chef, restaurateur, vintner ...

I picked up some great habits from Julia Child along the way. When in public and something goes wrong, the ability to be self-deprecating and roll with the punches will endear you to your audience.

A former top Disney exec allegedly hatched a treacherous plot to seize an acclaimed Napa Valley restaurant from the estate of late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello — cheating the chef’s widow and ...

Michael Chiarello, the celebrity chef best known for his Napa Valley restaurant Bottega, unexpectedly died at age 61 in 2023. Now, Chiarello’s estate has filed a lawsuit accusing three of his former ...

A month after The Press Democrat first reported the transfer of late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello’s flagship restaurant to his longtime business partners, new court filings reveal a bitter legal ...