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SingleThread is a farm, restaurant, and inn, located in
In 2014, Kyle and Katina Connaughton bought property in
Healdsburg, California
Healdsburg is a city located in Sonoma County, in California's Wine Country. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,254. Owing to its three most important wine-producing regions (the Russian River, Dry Creek, and Alexander Valley ...
.
Farm, restaurant, and inn
In 2014, Kyle and Katina Connaughton bought property in Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County () is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 488,863. Its county seat and largest city is Santa Rosa, California, Santa Rosa. It is to the n ...
for a five-acre farm, restaurant, and inn located in downtown Healdsburg
Healdsburg is a city located in Sonoma County, in California's Wine Country. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,254. Owing to its three most important wine-producing regions (the Russian River, Dry Creek, and Alexander Valley ...
. 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.
The menu at SingleThread combines Japanese influences with farm-to-table
Farm-to-table (or farm-to-fork, and in some cases farm-to-school) is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer (which might be a winery, brewer ...
ingredients. The dinner menu features 11 courses, with vegetarian, pescatarian, and omnivore options and dishes changing each night.
''Eater
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'' named SingleThread one of the most beautiful restaurants of 2016, and the restaurant's design won a James Beard Award
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media award ...
in 2017. It was designed by AvroKO.
The ''San Francisco Chronicle
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'' gave the restaurant four stars. ''The World's 50 Best Restaurants
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'' named SingleThread its "One To Watch" in 2018. The Michelin Guide
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awarded SingleThread two stars in the 2018 Michelin Guide for San Francisco, and three stars in 2019. There are 13 three-star restaurants in the United States, with six of them being in California.
Owners Kyle and Katina Connaughton
The Connaughtons were high school classmates in the suburbs ofLos Angeles
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who married and had two daughters, Chloe and Ava. Kyle and Katina had life long dreams of opening their own farm and restaurant in Northern California.
Kyle Connaughton attended culinary school and worked in several notable restaurants in Los Angeles, including Spago
Spago is chef Wolfgang Puck's flagship restaurant worldwide, known for serving California cuisine. Spago is Puck's first restaurant venture.
Name and history
The word "spago" is Italian for "string" or "twine". The plural would be "spaghi," whi ...
, Campanile
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, and Suzanne Goin
Suzanne Goin is a chef and restaurateur from Los Angeles, California. As a restaurateur, she runs three fine dining restaurants in the Los Angeles area: a.o.c., Lucques, and Tavern, which she runs with partner Caroline Styne, as well as four Larde ...
’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
Michel Bras (born 4 November 1946) is a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999. It is also classed in the "Relais & Châteaux" since 1992. He was classed several time ...
in Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The la ...
. In 2006, Connaughton moved to England to work for Heston Blumenthal
Heston Marc Blumenthal (; born 27 May 1966) is a British celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and flavour encapsulation. He came to public attention with un ...
at The Fat Duck
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. During their travels, Katina Connaughton studied sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs. It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem ser ...
and English and Japanese gardens.
In 2015, Kyle Connaughton published a cookbook, ''Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking'' with Naoko Takei Moore.
See also
*List of Michelin 3-star restaurants
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* List of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States
This article contains a complete list of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States. Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The guide was originally developed in 1900 to s ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:SingleThread Michelin Guide starred restaurants in California James Beard Foundation Award winners