Hotel Healdsburg – Healdsburg, Calif.
Chef Charlie Palmer and co-owners John Holt, Paolo Patrone and Merritt Sher celebrate the senses at this North Sonoma County retreat that offers luxury accommodations, a spa and the Dry Creek Kitchen restaurant, which celebrates the area’s bounty of foods and wines. Charlie Palmer’s Aureole restaurant in New York City was an Ivy winner in 1997.