Chili De Arbol

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Anette’s Chocolates, on First Street in downtown Napa, has done it again, with another Specialty Outstanding Food Innovations (SOFI) award. Their new Chili Lime Tequila Tortilla Brittle is a silver finalist in the prestigious 39th annual awards competition. This brittle delivers on taste. Made with organic white and yellow corn tortilla chips, roasted pumpkin seeds and a mighty fine tequila, it is topped off with the bold flavors of all natural lime, and a little chili de arbol for kicks.

This summer at the Fancy Food Show in Washington, D.C., Anette’s will compete in the second round, and hopefully take home the gold in the outstanding snack food category. The SOFI awards, considered the Oscars of the specialty food trade, recognize outstanding specialty foods and beverages in

33 categories. As a silver finalist, Anette’s receives a silver trophy in the shape of a chef.

This will not be the first time Anette’s has contended for a SOFI Golden Chef. In past years, Anette’s won the gold with their Triple Nut Kentucky Bourbon Brittle, Micro Brew Beer Brittle and twice with the Micro Brew Firey Beer Brittle.

Anette’s is open daily at their 1321 First St. location, and also at Oxbow Public Market.

Cheers!

1313 Main, a bold, new kind of wine destination, joined Downtown Napa’s wine tasting scene last month. Featuring more than 1,300 rotating labels offered by the taste, glass, flight or bottle, 1313 Main is an intimate and sophisticated wine bar and lounge.

Best of all, it’s a really comfortable place to enjoy wine — beautiful, but not at all stuffy — a place where friends can relax with wine or craft beers complemented by a selection of artisanal small plates, and feel at home.

“One of the best things I’ve heard a customer say so far,” says Al Jabarin, proprietor, “is ‘this place hugs you,’ which was my intention in creating a comfortable ambiance.”

Jabarin may be proudest of 1313 Main’s “Cru 32,” a private room housing 32 wine lockers and the ‘Vintners Table,’ reserved for use by 1313 Main’s most exclusive club, the Cru 32. The Vintners Table provides winemakers an executive suite to meet and taste with their fans and guests.

Jarbarin came to the Napa Valley in 1990, and fell in love with wine. After working for several years in Napa’s restaurant hospitality, he jumped into the business of wine merchant, creating CalWine, one of the first and still successful Internet-based wine outlets. 1313 combines his more than years of understanding and knowledge of good wines with a good space in which to enjoy them, and the hospitality to make the experience as enjoyable as possible.

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