Schmitt and her husband Don opened The French Laundry in 1978 after spending four years renovating a rustic building that once operated as an actual laundry. By The Associated Press Sally Schmitt, who ...

The famed French Laundry in Yountville was named to a list of favorite “splurge-worthy” restaurants in the world. The famed French Laundry in Yountville was named to a list of favorite “splurge-worthy ...

A local restaurant was recently named the most famous restaurant in California. Chef Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry in Yountville was crowned the Golden State’s “most famous” eatery in a July 15 ...

Well, strap in, everyone, there’s no other way to put it: San Francisco Chronicle food critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan dropped a bombshell of a story about visiting the three-Michelin-starred restaurant ...

For millions of newly unemployed people, the pandemic is a time of financial hardship. Others, apparently, can still afford to drop $850 to eat caviar at the French Laundry. On Wednesday, Thomas ...

A restaurant owner who mocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s widely criticized outing at French Laundry in Napa Valley said lockdown restrictions have had a crushing impact on his business during the ...

Sally Schmitt, who founded the French Laundry restaurant in California wine country and helped launch the region’s farm-to-table movement, has died. She was 90. Schmitt died on March 5 at her home in ...