Best Anniversary Restaurants in Sonoma (2026)
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The 2026 Sonoma anniversary pick is Enclos, a two-Michelin-star tasting in a restored Victorian off the plaza. Editorial runners-up: Cafe La Haye, Layla, Glen Ellen Star, Wit & Wisdom, LaSalette.
Candlelight on old Victorian glass, a cork drawn slow, the year you are marking sitting between two plates. Nineteen Sonoma rooms sit in our directory; six carry an anniversary.
Six Sonoma Tables for an Anniversary
Enclos earned two Michelin stars and a Green Star within a year of opening, in a restored Victorian at 139 East Napa Street near the plaza. Chef Brian Limoges runs a roughly eight-course tasting at $280 that pulls global flavours through his New England roots. It is the highest-stakes anniversary table in town — book via Tock weeks out. For a milestone anniversary you have already decided is a statement, this is Sonoma's most ambitious room.
Cafe La Haye is a 34-seat bistro a half block off the plaza, run by chef-owner Jose Lopez Nunes in a room open since 1996, cooking produce sourced from within sixty miles. The daily risotto and the grilled pork chop are the reads on the kitchen, and the small warm space is built for an anniversary you want intimate rather than grand. Book two to three weeks out for the size. For an anniversary that wants a quiet bistro and a real cook, not a tasting-menu spectacle.
Layla anchors the MacArthur Place hotel in a converted barn on six acres of garden at 29 East MacArthur Street, two blocks off the plaza. Chef Cole Dickinson cooks Mediterranean-Californian — the crispy octopus over black risotto is the order — in a candle-bright room that opens onto a garden patio. It is the most openly romantic setting in town. For an anniversary that wants weathered beams, candlelight and a garden table for two.
Ari Weiswasser cooks at a 650-degree wood-fired oven at Glen Ellen Star, 13648 Arnold Drive up the valley, a Bib Gourmand in the 2025 Michelin Guide and a fixture since 2012. The blistered vegetables and the brick chicken are the signatures, and the snug valley room makes a warm, unstuffy anniversary. For an anniversary that wants serious wood-fired cooking in a relaxed Sonoma Valley room rather than a formal dining room.
Michael Mina built Wit & Wisdom as a wine-country tavern, a hearth at its centre and the bar lively without being loud, with a tented back patio for warmer nights. The wood-fired, bounty-of-the-valley menu carries technique without ceremony, which suits an anniversary that wants to celebrate rather than sit in silence. For an anniversary that wants a polished, festive tavern over a hushed tasting room.
Manuel Azevedo, born in the Azores, has cooked his Cozinha Nova Portuguesa at LaSalette in the Mercato courtyard off the plaza since 1998 — woodfired seafood, daily bread, and the Dungeness crab empadas that regulars order first. It is a distinctive, warm anniversary room with a story behind every plate. For an anniversary that wants Portuguese wood-fired cooking and something different from the wine-country norm.
How to Book
Enclos is the room to plan around — book the $280 tasting via Tock weeks ahead. Cafe La Haye books two to three weeks out for its 34 seats; Layla, Wit & Wisdom and Glen Ellen Star take OpenTable tables a few days to a week out, earlier on anniversary-heavy weekends.
A weekend sunset seating suits an anniversary. Ask for the garden patio at Layla, a window at Wit & Wisdom, and the early tasting seating at Enclos so the evening has room to breathe.
Frequently Asked Questions
The 2026 editorial pick is Enclos, a two-Michelin-star tasting in a restored Victorian at 139 East Napa Street, where chef Brian Limoges serves a roughly eight-course menu at $280. For an intimate bistro anniversary, chef-owner Jose Lopez Nunes's 34-seat Cafe La Haye off the plaza; for the most romantic setting, Layla's candle-bright converted barn.
Layla at MacArthur Place is the most openly romantic — a converted barn on six acres of garden at 29 East MacArthur Street, where chef Cole Dickinson cooks Mediterranean plates like crispy octopus over black risotto in a candle-bright room that opens to a garden patio. Cafe La Haye's intimate 34-seat bistro is the close second.
It ranges from the mid-band rooms — Cafe La Haye, Layla, Glen Ellen Star, Wit and Wisdom and LaSalette at roughly $60 to $110 a head — up to $280 for the eight-course tasting at two-Michelin-star Enclos. An anniversary lands comfortably in the middle of that range, or at the top for a true milestone.
Enclos holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star, both earned within a year of opening, at 139 East Napa Street. Glen Ellen Star is a Bib Gourmand in the 2025 Michelin Guide, and Cafe La Haye, LaSalette and Wit and Wisdom all appear in the current Michelin Guide listings for the Sonoma area.
Book Enclos via Tock several weeks out for the tasting, and Cafe La Haye two to three weeks ahead for its 34 seats. Layla, Wit and Wisdom and Glen Ellen Star take reservations a few days to a week out, but fill earlier on weekends heavy with anniversaries and wine-country visitors.