Fine Dining at Orange County's Best Restaurant

Expect to stumble into wine country in the heart of Orange County at The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar at The District in Tustin. Hip, vibrant and sophisticated, The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar showcases the best of the wine country with unique and refreshing food & wine pairings that create a well-rounded menu with something to satisfy every diner. Offering the best in service and a variety of settings under one roof, The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar provides the perfect backdrop for any occasion, from intimate dinners and private celebrations, to holiday gatherings, elegant events, and corporate receptions and meetings.

Executive Chef & Partner, Yvon Goetz, directs a culinary team that delivers a cutting-edge menu featuring contemporary California regional cuisine. Using the freshest ingredients and products available, the menu features line-caught Opah, Ono & Mahi Mahi flown in from Hawaii. A strikingly designed open-air kitchen enables diners to watch Goetz in action!

The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar also features The Cellar, a large-scale temperature-controlled wine cellar lined with a rustic limestone floor and granite walls accented w ith mahogany racking. This state-of-the-art cellar can easily accommodate up to 7,500 bottles! The main dining room has a solid marble floor and offers a combination of comfortable booth and table seating custom-designed to visually convey the many colors of the Wine Country.

In addition, The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar offers two private dining rooms, both capable of accommodating 24 guests. The Napa, also utilized as a Chef’s tasting room, features a beautiful marble fireplace. The second room, The Sonoma, is ideal for corporate meetings and presentations.

The room features tempered glass walls that look into The Cellar. It offers state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment with drop-down video screen.

A solid marble-top bar resembles a dried, pressed grape leaf and features ultra-plush back velvet bar stools, where a built-in temperature-controlled unit holds magnum bottles to ensure wines are poured at the right temperature.

The Vineyard, a 1,000-square-foot limestone patio showcases stone tables accented with contemporary whicker and teak chairs, and features a retractable waterproof awning and fireplace that ensure an open-air dining experience year-round.

The Havana, a separate humidor patio, with plush seating, Havana fans and plasma screen, offers an array of premium cigars for the cigar aficionado.

The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar offers a warm and passionate menu complemented by the perfect wines -- endless possibilities and something to suit every palate.

The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar is located at The District in Tustin (2647 Park Avenue, Tustin, California 92782). For more information, call (714) 258-7600 or visit www.thewineryrestaurant.net.

California Cuisine for Lunch and Dinner

Having opened in Orange County, California in mid-2007, The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar has created quite a stir by successfully pairing contemporary California regional cuisine, with a hip, vibrant, sophisticated setting, to create a cutting-edge dining experience.

Partners JC Clow, William Lewis and Patrick “Irish” Quinn, spent more than 12 years together at the second-highest grossing Morton’s in the country at South Coast Plaza, before embarking on their own journey to open The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar. The restaurant strays from their steakhouse past, as the menu focuses on contemporary California regional cuisine at its finest, with Executive Chef & Partner, Yvon Goetz, directing a team that delivers a culinary experience straight from wine country.

Chef Goetz, considered one of the most highly decorated chefs in Southern California, has received such accolades and awards as “Alsace’s gift to Southern California” by the Los Angeles Times, “The Best of the Best” by the Travel Guide, one of three recipients in California of the AAA Five-Diamond Award, “Chef of the Year” by the Orange County Business Journal, “Chef of the Year” by the Southern California Restaurant Writer’s Association, one of “Orange County’s HOT 25” by OC METRO Business.

In addition to wild game and USDA prime steaks, the menu is peppered with Pacific Rim flavorings, such as fresh line-caught Opah, Mong Chong, Ono & Mahi Mahi flown in daily from Hawaii. Using the finest ingredients and products, the menu has received acclaim for deviating from the norm in Orange County by featuring venison, caribou, pheasant, quail, rabbit, squab, fois gras, veal cheeks, pork cheeks and frog legs. Tying the expansive wine list into the menu, award-winning Chef Goetz features additions such as gewürztraminer vinaigrette and roasted garlic-syrah essence into many of his signature dishes. The restaurant’s wine list, which currently offers 650 selections, changes weekly, offering diners a wide range of varietals from around the world. Guests can look into and even tour the restaurant’s 800-squarefoot, climate-controlled cellar, which currently holds approximately 7,500 bottles!

In the short time it has been open, the restaurant was voted “Restaurant of the Year” by the Orange County Concierge Association in its first two years of business, “2009 Business of the Year” finalist by the Tustin Chamber of Commerce, and has received many glowing reviews in The Orange County Register, Orange Coast Magazine, Riviera Magazine, COAST Magazine and The Orange County Business Journal. In addition, The Winery has received accolades from many editors and food writers in many well-read publications, including The Southern California Restaurant Writer’s Association for “Sommelier of the Year” to Managing Partner William Lewis; Chef Magazine for “Chef of the Year” nomination and recognition for charitable work; The James Beard Foundation’s Beard Bites; the Orange County Business Journal as one of the region’s top restaurants in the publication’s biannual “Fifi’s Best;” the Orange County Register’s front page of the Food section with Chef Goetz as one of Orange County’s “Top Chef’s” and leader of a Mediterranean voyage with Silversea luxury cruises; OC Menus with our talented Chef on the cover; Riviera Magazine’s “Best of Issue” for a Distinguished Service award; Great-Taste Magazine with The Winery and Chef Goetz on the cover; The Orange County Register’s annual “Best of O.C.,” which rated The Winery as one of the top new restaurants; OC METRO Business Magazine, which recognized Chef Goetz as one of “The Hot 25,” a special feature honors the top 25 business individuals and entrepreneurs in Orange County each year; Color & Aroma Magazine, which printed a beautiful three-page spread; Live OC Magazine, which ran an in-depth review; and MOVES, a national magazine geared towards professional athletes distributed at the Super Bowl. In addition to print media, Chef Goetz and Managing Partner JC Clow were featured on Food & Dining on AM 830 with host Mario Martinoli.