SingleThread

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SingleThread
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SingleThread in September 2022.
SingleThread
Restaurant information
Established2016;8 years ago (2016)
Owner(s)Kyle & Katina Connaughton, Tony Greenberg
Head chefKyle Connaughton
Food type Japanese and New American
Rating Etoile Michelin-3.svg (Michelin Guide) ,
*AAA Five Diamond Award (2019-2023) [1]
Street address131 North St.
City Healdsburg
State California
Postal/ZIP Code95448
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 38°36′44″N122°52′11″W / 38.6123333°N 122.8696579°W / 38.6123333; -122.8696579
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

SingleThread is a farm, restaurant, and inn, located in Healdsburg, California.

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Farm, restaurant, and inn

Tomatoes for sale at SingleThread's farm stand in Healdsburg. The farm stand opened in 2022. SingleThread Farm Stand - August 2022 - Sarah Stierch 06.jpg
Tomatoes for sale at SingleThread's farm stand in Healdsburg. The farm stand opened in 2022.

In 2014, Kyle and Katina Connaughton bought property in Sonoma County, California for a five-acre farm, restaurant, and inn located in downtown Healdsburg. They worked over two years to cultivate the farm's vegetables and flowers, olive trees, fruit orchards, beehives, chickens, and cattle. They prepared the inn and developed a menu for the restaurant, opening in December 2016 as SingleThread. [2] [3]

The menu at SingleThread combines Japanese influences with farm-to-table ingredients. The dinner menu features 11 courses, with vegetarian, pescatarian, and omnivore options and dishes changing each night. [4]

Eater named SingleThread one of the most beautiful restaurants of 2016, and the restaurant's design won a James Beard Award in 2017. [5] It was designed by AvroKO.

The San Francisco Chronicle gave the restaurant four stars. [6] The World's 50 Best Restaurants named SingleThread its "One To Watch" in 2018. [7] The Michelin Guide awarded SingleThread two stars in the 2018 Michelin Guide for San Francisco, and three stars in 2019. [2] There are 13 three-star restaurants in the United States, with six of them being in California. [8]

Ownership

The owners, Kyle and Katina Connaughton, were high school classmates in the suburbs of Los Angeles who married and had two daughters, Chloe and Ava. Kyle and Katina had lifelong dreams of opening their own farm and restaurant in Northern California. [2] [3]

Kyle Connaughton attended culinary school and worked in several notable restaurants in Los Angeles, including Spago, Campanile, and Suzanne Goin’s AOC and Lucques. Connaughton then trained as a sushi chef, working under Andy Matsuda at the Sushi Chef Institute. In 2003, Connaughton moved to Japan to work for Michel Bras in Hokkaido. In 2006, Connaughton moved to England to work for Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck. During their travels, Katina Connaughton studied sustainable agriculture and English and Japanese gardens. [2] [3] [9]

In 2015, Kyle Connaughton published a cookbook, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking with Naoko Takei Moore. [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/05/2023-five-four-diamond-lists/ [ bare URL ]
  2. 1 2 3 4 Baker, Abbe (January 29, 2019). "Power Couples: SingleThread's Kyle and Katina Connaughton". Michelin Guide.
  3. 1 2 3 Fabricant, Florence (October 8, 2018). "An Overnight Success Story That Took Decades". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Fort, Ellen (December 2, 2016). "Single Thread Explained: What to Expect at the Restaurant, Inn, and Farm". Eater SF.
  5. ↑ Canavan, Hillary Dixler (May 17, 2017). "The Restaurant That Proves the Best Dining Room Is a Living Room". Eater.
  6. ↑ Bauer, Michael (March 24, 2017). "Single Thread in Healdsburg: A flawless 4 stars on arrival". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. ↑ Odell, Kat (May 30, 2018). "Seven reasons why SingleThread in California is the restaurant to watch in 2018".
  8. ↑ "California 3 Stars MICHELIN MICHELIN Restaurants – the MICHELIN Guide United States".
  9. 1 2 "Chef Kyle Connaughton of SingleThread - Biography". StarChefs. September 2017.
  10. ↑ Moore, Naoko Takei; Connaughton, Kyle (2015). Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking. Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale. ISBN   9781607747000.
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