10/25/2026
THREE COMMUNITIES, ONE TABLE. ❤️
No burger in this post. No special, no coupon. Just something we've been wanting to say.
We cook in two towns, but we live in three communities — and the more we learn about them, the prouder we are to be here. So we've been doing our homework, and we wanted to share a little of it.
WINDSOR became a town in 1992 — the youngest in Sonoma County — and built its heart around a Town Green shaded by oaks that were old long before the town was. On summer mornings, hot air balloons rise over Keiser Park before most of us are awake. Windsor planned itself around families, and you can feel it.
WIKIUP is the one most people drive past without knowing. It's the hills and the creek behind Larkfield — and a hundred years ago it was Rancho Wikiup, a famous racehorse ranch whose stallion raced at the Epsom Derby, later called into service as Camp Wikiup during WWII. Mark West Creek still runs 29.9 miles through it, still home to salmon and steelhead. Wikiup doesn't even get counted separately in the Census — it gets folded in with Larkfield. We think it deserves to be named out loud.
LARKFIELD was never incorporated at all. No city hall, no mayor — just neighbors who decided this was a place worth fighting for. After the Tubbs Fire took hundreds of homes here, Larkfield rebuilt itself lot by lot. This month, the new Mark West Area Community Park opened on Old Redwood Hwy. That's who Larkfield is: it doesn't wait to be saved. It rebuilds.
Three communities. All different. All ours.
We were born and raised right here in Sonoma County — and we're still learning new things about home. So teach us: what did we miss? What's the story about Windsor, Larkfield or Wikiup that everybody here should know?
Good Food. Good People. Community First.
— The Machado Family
(Photos: Balloon Classic night glow — Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Mark West Creek — Stephen Gold, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · Larkfield cruise-in — ours.)
