Food Travels: Santa Rosa, California

 For our one year wedding anniversary, my husband and I took a trip to California. We were both so excited to see the sites, drink in the local wine and of course, the food! My husband has been a long time fan of the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I was never much of a fan before we met as most of the food destinations were outside of Ohio and I was more interested in watching shows about cooking. However, once we met and I started watching the shows, I too was hooked! We have added DDD stops to most of our vacations now and it really is quite fun to try them all out.

Since we were going to be in California, we definitely had to stop at one of our main man's restaurants. We made a detour on our way from San Francisco to Napa, to stop at Tex Wasabi's in Santa Rosa.  While Kevin was in 7th heaven driving the windy along Route 1A from San Francisco north, I was dreaming about lunch at our special destination.

 

We stopped in on a Tuesday afternoon around 1:00 and surprisingly it wasn't crowded at all - perfect time to stop by! We were both so excited and honestly, pretty famished from the ride from San Francisco.  Although his new restaurant in NYC has received some flack lately for its food quality, we didn't experience anything like this at Tex Wasabi.  For an appetizer we ordered the Gringo Sushi Jackass Roll, shown below, which was made up of BBQ pork, sushi rice, french fries all rolled in rice paper and topped with a garlic chili mayo.  What an interesting take on sushi!  I have to say, it was pretty tasty and we had no problem at all finishing it right off! 

 

For our main meal I ordered the Tom "Real Deal" Turkey Sandwich" and Kevin ordered Guys Big Bite Burger.  Neither were let downs and both were enormous, as seen below.  We were both thoroughly excited to have finally eaten at a Guy Fieri restaurant as well as have a truly delicious meal after a long day of driving.  If you're ever around Santa Rosa, we would definitely recommend a trip to Tex Wasabi!

 

xoxo Melissa