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California Central Coast Weekend Getaway

Fall is the the season of entertaining! From dinner parties to Friendsgivings and impromptu cocktail parties, I’m all about gathering friends to toast the season. And nothing seems to celebrate my home state of California like a road trip and harvest dinner!

Recently, I joined up with my friends Nastassia, Kate, and Kristen for a California Central Coast road trip to Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara and harvest dinner. We tasted local wines, shopped local, and threw a harvest dinner. Check out the full experience here below. 

Central Coast Harvest Dinner

After returning from a California road trip, I’m always inspired to cook and want to bring memories of those adventures home. Around here, hosting friends and throwing dinner parties is how we preserve those memories, and of course, that goes hand in hand with wine.

Speaking of, we partnered with Zephyr to feature their new wine fridge known as the ZEPHYR PRESRVâ„¢. The newly launched Zephyr Presrv Wine Cooler is a premium wine fridge with LED lighting, full-extension racks, Dual Zone temperature control, and Active Cooling Technology. That means the wine fridge does all the work while you prep your meal so that when your meal is ready, your wine will be at the perfect temperature!  Read on for all the recipes from our dinner party as well as the must-stop spots when you’re next visiting California’s Central Coast!

Road Trip Bruschetta
Zephyr Harvest Dinner
Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake

Fall Harvest Dinner Party Menu

All those delicious seasonal recipes you see in the video? Kate and I made created them for the occasion and they’re all make ahead yet stunning so they’re perfect for a dinner party! Here are the recipes so you can make them yourself for anything from Thanksgiving to the holidays:

Two women at Helena Avenue Bakery Santa Barbara
Ojai Valley Inn
Ojai Tipple and Ramble

Central Coast Road Trip Itinerary

We hit the road in a GMC Yukon and played carpool karaoke and drove our way up the coast. We stopped at wineries and local shops to stock up for our Harvest Dinner.

Here are a few of our favorite places in Ojai, Santa Barbara, and Santa Ynez:

Ojai Valley Area

Santa Barbara Area

Santa Ynez Area

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