Housemade Corned Beef Hash and Nightingale Toast at Sarah’s Forestville Kitchen

[Melanie Wong]

The newly opened Sarah’s Forestville Kitchen was this morning’s site for a wine country brunch. Cash only and liquor license pending, it serves breakfast and lunch and promotes itself on this street sign as “Food for Everyone”.
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Most of the seating is outside on the shaded patio. I had a view through two windows into the long, narrow kitchen from my table under the big shade tree.
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The base of the tree is planted with kitchen herbs, as shown here.
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I also noticed a small smoker in the courtyard and wondered what was cooking in there. Pretty soon Chef Brian came out to check the smoker. http://twitpic.com/1xc7pn

He uses it to smoke rectangles of marinated tofu.
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These are the base for a vegetarian Reuben that I’ll have to try another time.

Service changes from breakfast to lunch at 11:30am. But at 11:45am, the kitchen was willing to take my breakfast order. I’d been curious about the house-cured corned beef I’d read about on the restaurant’s blog. My server said the corned beef hash, $9.25, is her favorite thing on the menu. http://www.flickr.com/photos/melaniewong/4707746720/

The over-easy farm eggs whites were a little tough but the runny yolk was perfectly oozy over the hash. Some browned fatty pieces punched up the flavor of the mostly lean, shredded corned beef mingled with the cubed potatoes and occasional bits of bell pepper to deliver the best tasting corned beef hash I’ve had in ages. The shredded meat was a little stringy but the peppery spice, meaty depth, and cured salty tones of the corned beef made this. The butter-brushed, whole wheat bread toast from the wood-fired oven of Nightingale Bread across the street was terrific.
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While I do want to come back for the tofu Reuben, the regular way made with this corned beef will have priority. Anyone else tried Sarah’s Forestville Kitchen yet?

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Nightingale Breads
6665 Front St, Forestville, CA

Sarah's Forestville Kitchen
6566 Front St, Forestville, CA 95436

[Melanie Wong]

According to Carey Sweet's piece for Inside Sonoma, Sarah's Forestville Kitchen is now serving dinner.
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Sarah's Forestville Kitchen
6566 Front St, Forestville, CA 95436