With its intimate Belle Epoque aesthetic and remarkable Oak’s inspired cuisine Boulevard has been chosen as the Bay Area’s favorite restaurant by the Zagat Survey for an incredible six straight years, and has consistently raised the bar in a city famed for its restaurants. While Pat carefully worked to cultivate the gardens, groves and especially the stunning and demanding mountainside vineyards of Kuleto Estate, he continued to co-create some of the Bay Area’s most cherished and visionary restaurants. In 1997, Pat and chef Mark Franz, of Stars restaurant fame, opened Farallon near San Francisco’s Union Square. Drawing on their mutual love of the ocean, Pat designed an undersea fantasy to match Franz’s inspired “Coastal Cuisine”. Later that year, Pat collaborated with chef Traci Des Jardins, known for her work at Rubicon, to open Jardinière. The restaurant showcases sophisticated, award-winning French-California cuisine served in a celebratory Kuleto- designed environment that is dramatic and sexy, yet warm and inviting. In the fall of 2001, Pat and former Campton Place chef Todd Humphries opened Martini House in St. Helena. With a world-class 700-bottle wine list that complements a menu based on the best-loved foods of the wine country, the highlights of Martini House include hand-built fireplaces, signature Kuleto light fixtures, an open staircase that descends into the wine cellar, and outdoor garden seating around a 75-year-old fountain. Close to home, and occasionally acting as an impromptu tasting room for the wines of Kuleto Estate, Martini House invites both locals and visitors to enjoy a quintessential Napa Valley wine and food experience. Over the years Pat Kuleto’s name has become synonymous with excellence in restaurants, food and wine. A leader in the hospitality field, in 1999 Pat won Bon Appetit's Food and Entertaining Award for Best Designer and was honored the following year by Time magazine as one of the “Top 100 Innovators” in its 2000 Millennium issue. So for the man who claims he was born with a building permit, not a birth certificate, the expectations for his own home and winery ran high. Villa Cucina, Pat’s stunning Tuscan-style home designed around a central kitchen hearth, sets the tone for the surrounding ranch and vineyards. Blending early California craftsman and pastoral Mediterranean styles, Pat’s home and the neighboring winery fuse his signature attention to natural materials, custom craftsmanship, and warm yet spectacular lighting. True to a more European estate philosophy, Villa Cucina celebrates a life lived close to nature, with most of the food served in the kitchen coming from the ranch, gardens or the estate’s beautiful Lake Brunello. Crafted to complement the bounty of the land, Pat Kuleto’s open and opulent wines have always found their best home amongst good food and great company. What he first envisioned, and has since created from the remarkable land of Kuleto Estate is a coherent, sustainable and calm reflection of the things that matter most to Pat. “Wineries exist from generation to generation,” says Pat. “They grow and evolve with a timeless elegance that I find fascinating. I’ve been passionate about wine for years and I’ve always been a farmer and a gardener. Here I’ll be able to teach my son Daniel those skills and traditions while I watch him grow. That makes it easy for my heart to be here in the vineyards.