The French Laundry best restaurant in marin county a three-Michelin star French and Californian cuisine restaurant located in Yountville, California, in the Napa Valley. The building was built as a saloon in the 1900s by a Scottish stonesman for Pierre Guillaume.
In the 1920s, the building was owned by John Lande who used it as a French steam laundry, which is the origin of the restaurant’s name. In 1978, Don Schmitt, the mayor of Yountville, renovated the building into a restaurant. He and his wife Sally Schmitt owned the French Laundry for much of the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1994, Keller bought the restaurant. In 1999, Keller published The French Laundry Cookbook, which he considers his definitive book on cuisine. In 2004, the restaurant installed a geothermal heating and air conditioning system.
In July 2014, the Napa Valley restaurant celebrated its 20th anniversary with a six-hour feast for friends, locals, and luminaries and temporarily closed for renovations before the end of the year. Most of the wine was subsequently recovered. On April 7, 2015, the restaurant reopened following demolition of a number of buildings on the site. During the remainder of the renovation project, the staff worked out of a temporary kitchen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, The French Laundry has opened and closed a few times. They are currently open with limited seating, in accordance with pandemic restrictions.
In November 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom attended a private party at the restaurant. Every day, the French Laundry serves two different nine-course tasting menus, one the Chef’s Tasting Menu and the other the Tasting of Vegetables, which is vegetarian. In February 2004, Thomas Keller opened the East Coast version of his Yountville restaurant, which he named Per Se. The kitchens of both restaurants are connected via a real-time video feed on a television screen. Spa during the renovation of The French Laundry.
The restaurant, which serves American classics, is called Ad Lib. Since 2006, it has been awarded three stars in the Michelin Guide to San Francisco. It received a favorable review in The New York Times and was called “the best restaurant in the world, period” in 2005 by Anthony Bourdain. Since 2007, the restaurant has been the recipient of the Wine Spectator Grand Award. French Laundry chef talks about celebrity life”.