The Etoile restaurant at The Domaine Chandon winery in Yountville, is the only one of the 4 restaurants boasting a Michelin star that we visited over Memorial weekend, and they must have earned that for pretension.
When compared with Redd, Bardessono and Bottega, Etoile came fourth, by some margin.
Domaine Chandon is not one of the warmest wineries in Napa - it lacks a pleasing atmosphere, imagining that waistcoated waiters and overly complex dishes automatically count with diners.
Those dishes, amuse bouches and other fripperies didn't really hit the spot, and the atmosphere was akin to a waiting room at a truck stop in Outer Mongolia (cruel, I know, but it was DULL).
In Etoile's defence, we had gorged at Redd earlier in the day, and sampled wines at a few Napa wineries that afternoon, so maybe we'd already had too much of a good thing before our late dinner.
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