SingleThread
{{Short description|Restaurant in the California, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox restaurant
| name = SingleThread
| image = SingleThread - September 2022 - Sarah Stierch 01.jpg
| image_caption = SingleThread in September 2022.
| established = {{start date and age|2016}}
| closed =
| current-owner = Kyle & Katina Connaughton, Tony Greenberg
| head-chef = Kyle Connaughton
| food-type = Japanese and New American
| dress-code =
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- {{Michelinstar|3}} (Michelin Guide)
- {{michelin stars|hotel}}{{michelin stars|hotel}}{{michelin stars|hotel}} (Michelin Guide)
- AAA Five Diamond Award (2019-2023){{Cite web | url=https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/05/2023-five-four-diamond-lists/ | title=2023 Five & Four Diamond Hotels & Restaurant Lists | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218234942/https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/05/2023-five-four-diamond-lists/ | archive-date=2023-12-18 }}
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| street-address = 131 North St.
| city = Healdsburg
| state = California
| postcode = 95448
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{coord|38.6123333|-122.8696579}}
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| website = {{official website}}
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SingleThread is a farm, restaurant, and inn, located in Healdsburg, California.
Farm, restaurant, and inn
File:SingleThread Farm Stand - August 2022 - Sarah Stierch 06.jpg
In 2014, Kyle and Katina Connaughton bought property in Sonoma County, California for a five-acre farm, restaurant, and inn located in downtown Healdsburg. They worked over two years to cultivate the farm's vegetables and flowers, olive trees, fruit orchards, beehives, chickens, and cattle. They prepared the inn and developed a menu for the restaurant, opening in December 2016 as SingleThread.{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Abbe |title=Power Couples: SingleThread's Kyle and Katina Connaughton |url=https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/illinois/chicago/article/people/kyle-katina-connaughton-singlethread-couple |work=Michelin Guide |date=January 29, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Fabricant |first1=Florence |title=An Overnight Success Story That Took Decades |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/dining/singlethread-farms-kyle-connaughton.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 8, 2018}}
The menu at SingleThread combines Japanese influences with farm-to-table ingredients. The dinner menu features 11 courses, with vegetarian, pescatarian, and omnivore options and dishes changing each night.{{cite news |last1=Fort |first1=Ellen |title=Single Thread Explained: What to Expect at the Restaurant, Inn, and Farm |url=https://sf.eater.com/2016/12/2/13815726/single-thread-restaurant-farm-healdsburg |work=Eater SF |date=December 2, 2016}}
Eater named SingleThread one of the most beautiful restaurants of 2016, and the restaurant's design won a James Beard Award in 2017.{{cite news |last1=Canavan |first1=Hillary Dixler |title=The Restaurant That Proves the Best Dining Room Is a Living Room |url=https://www.eater.com/2017/5/17/15619368/single-thread-avroko-interior-design-photos-shop-the-restaurant |work=Eater |date=May 17, 2017}} It was designed by AvroKO.
The San Francisco Chronicle gave the restaurant four stars.{{cite news |last1=Bauer |first1=Michael |title=Single Thread in Healdsburg: A flawless 4 stars on arrival |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/diningout/article/Single-Thread-in-Healdsburg-A-flawless-4-stars-11025774.php |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=March 24, 2017}} The World's 50 Best Restaurants named SingleThread its "One To Watch" in 2018.{{cite news |last1=Odell |first1=Kat |title=Seven reasons why SingleThread in California is the restaurant to watch in 2018 |url=https://www.theworlds50best.com/blog/News/seven-reasons-why-singlethread-california-is-one-to-watch-in-2018.html |date=May 30, 2018}} The Michelin Guide awarded SingleThread two stars in the 2018 Michelin Guide for San Francisco, and three stars in 2019. There are 13 three-star restaurants in the United States, with six of them being in California.{{Cite web|url=https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/california/restaurants/3-stars-michelin|title=California 3 Stars MICHELIN Restaurants – The MICHELIN Guide USA|website=MICHELIN Guide}}
Ownership
The owners, Kyle and Katina Connaughton, were high school classmates in the suburbs of Los Angeles who married and had two daughters, Chloe and Ava. Kyle and Katina had lifelong dreams of opening their own farm and restaurant in Northern California.
Kyle Connaughton attended culinary school and worked in several notable restaurants in Los Angeles, including Spago, Campanile, and Suzanne Goin’s AOC and Lucques. Connaughton then trained as a sushi chef, working under Andy Matsuda at the Sushi Chef Institute. In 2003, Connaughton moved to Japan to work for Michel Bras in Hokkaido. In 2006, Connaughton moved to England to work for Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck. During their travels, Katina Connaughton studied sustainable agriculture and English and Japanese gardens.{{cite web |title=Chef Kyle Connaughton of SingleThread - Biography |url=https://www.starchefs.com/cook/chefs/bio/kyle-connaughton |publisher=StarChefs |date=September 2017}}
In 2015, Kyle Connaughton published a cookbook, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking with Naoko Takei Moore.{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Naoko Takei |last2=Connaughton |first2=Kyle |title=Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking |date=2015 |publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |isbn=9781607747000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnWWBgAAQBAJ |language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
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- {{Official website}}
{{Michelin Guide 3-star restaurants in the US}}
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Category:Michelin-starred restaurants in California