A Los Gatos patisserie-chocolaterie working from French recipes for its mousse cakes, tarts and pastries. Its café pours Verve Coffee and Harney & Sons tea alongside the pastry case.
Best for French mousse cakes, tarts and pastries made with Verve Coffee and Harney
Gali Vineyards is a family-owned winery with a tasting room on West Main Street in downtown Los Gatos, pouring estate-grown chardonnay, pinot noir, syrah, tempranillo, and albarino. The Gali family farms 18 acres by hand in Corralitos, and the tasting room rotates local art on its walls and hosts musicians and pairings.
Best for Estate-grown chardonnay, pinot noir, syrah, tempranillo
Saison Winery makes small-lot, single-vineyard wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains under winemaker Mark Bright, as part of the wider Saison Hospitality group. Its downtown Los Gatos tasting room on North Santa Cruz Avenue is open Thursday to Sunday, with an online shop and wine club for buying the wines.
Best for Small-lot, single-vineyard Santa Cruz Mountains wines by winemaker Mark Bright
Testarossa Winery has produced Pinot Noir and Chardonnay since 1993 in the historic Novitiate Winery on College Avenue in Los Gatos. It sells wine through its online shop and a tasting room open daily, and pairs visits with the on-site 107 Bistro and Wine Bar.