Hazel Hill

About Hazel Hill

Hazel Hill is the signature restaurant at Montage Healdsburg, the 258-acre luxury resort that represents one of the most ambitious hospitality projects in Sonoma County wine country. Chef de Cuisine Jason Pringle and Executive Chef Jaron Dubinsky lead a kitchen built around seasonal California produce, Sonoma ranches, and French technique handled with restraint rather than display. The signature milk bread with whipped mascarpone and estate lavender honey is the first indication of the kitchen's confidence; it is the kind of amuse that establishes an evening before a menu has been consulted.

The room was designed for its views. Hazel Hill sits among rolling vineyard hills on the Montage property, with an interactive expo kitchen, exhibit pantry, al fresco dining area, and wine bar that collectively operate as a single piece of stagecraft. The chef's tasting menu is available in the kitchen-adjacent space for guests who want to watch the preparations up close. The standard dining room is calibrated differently — distance enough for privacy, light calibrated for faces across a table, and a pace that never forces a course out before the conversation has caught up with it.

Menu signatures rotate by season, but the tagliatelle tartufata with confit egg yolk and shaved truffle, the Hazel Hill salad with local greens and hazelnuts, and the ahi tuna tartare appear frequently enough to count as house dishes. The forbidden rice preparation with squash, chickpeas, and kimchee signals that Pringle and Dubinsky are not content to recycle French bistro standards; the wine country context invites a California looseness that the kitchen accepts without losing discipline.

The wine program reflects the resort's scale. Sonoma producers dominate, as they should in a restaurant that sits on a 258-acre property overlooking Alexander Valley, but the list includes serious Burgundy and Bordeaux selections that recognise the international clientele Montage attracts. A romance dinner menu is offered separately — four courses structured around occasions where the reservation is the point.

Best Occasion Fit

For proposals, Hazel Hill is the most complete venue in Healdsburg. The combination of vineyard views, Forbes four-star service calibration, and a kitchen that treats every table as a milestone creates conditions under which the emotional weight of the evening is fully supported. Request a window table at sunset — the Alexander Valley light at 7pm from Montage property is the kind of detail you remember for decades.

For birthdays, Hazel Hill understands celebration without insisting on performance. The chef's tasting counter seats four and operates as a kitchen table for milestone dinners; the main dining room accommodates larger parties who want the Montage setting without the tasting-menu commitment. For impressing a client, the property itself does half the work. Few California addresses announce the effort you've invested in a dinner more clearly than 100 Montage Way.