The moment you bite into the carrot cake at Dry Creek General Store in Healdsburg, you’ll understand why people drive hours through winding wine country roads just for a slice.
This isn’t your grandmother’s carrot cake – though she’d probably approve of the generous portions and the way it makes you close your eyes and sigh with pure satisfaction.
Hidden along Dry Creek Road, where grapevines stretch as far as you can see and the pace of life slows to match the lazy drift of clouds overhead, this weathered general store has been keeping a delicious secret.
Sure, locals know about the sandwiches, and yes, the wine selection is worth browsing, but the real treasure here is a dessert so good it’s practically criminal that more people don’t know about it…