How come there are no buffet restuarant in Napa and in Sonoma? Like sizzlers or hometown buffet?|124844

Is it because it_s a tourist spot? Wine county, and it would be like an eye sore to have a chain buffet restaurants?

As noted in some of the other answers, there are buffet-style restaurants in the City of Napa, but you won_t find such places in the Napa Valley (north of the city of Napa). The Valley emphasizes fine dining and fine wines. Buffet and chain restaurants are out of character with the whole experience that the Valley promotes. I totally agree with their philosophy. You can find chains almost everywhere in America, they don_t need to be in places like the Napa Valley, which attracts visitors from all over the world because of its beauty and uniqueness. Big-box stores, chain restaurants, malls - all of these things would ruin the feel of the Valley and are not allowed. This is not _snobbery,_ it is an attempt to retain some feeling of uniqueness and authenticity to what is essentially an agricultural area (grape growing and wine making are the two major industries).

There_s a Sizzler_s in Napa (ate there on New Years Eve). There_s a Marie Calendar. There (used to be?) a Lion_s.

why would you ask us. shouldn_t you ask the buffet company

snobs thats why

there really aren_t many chain restaurants in napa or sonoma. sonoma I believe has an anti chain restaurant thing of some kind. there are very few fast food places in sonoma that are chains.

And in napa they just don_t really do that well. lyons closed years ago, marie callendars is never very full when i go there and ditto with Denny_s. Applebees is the only one that does decent. And to be perfectly honest with you I don_t really care for those chain buffets. I think they are very popular in the midwest, but the truth is they just don_t do well here in california.

though I would love to see baja fresh or or panera in napa.

True there is no Hometown Buffet because that_s entirely too new of a chain. Napa is too established for that. There is a sizzler on Trancas Street though. Across from Longs, Kaiser Permante and Safeway.

The city of Napa does have a sizzler. It is on Trances street. Napa has many many chain restaurants too. The rest of the valley has not allowed fast food places for many, many years. The a_w/KFC in St. Helena was put there before this ordenence. Traffic is the main reason for not having any fast foods and yes they are also snobs and want to offer only high quality places to eat.