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Cellar Door Café, Down at Bonny Doon, Gets Renamed Le Cigare Volant

The flying cigar, you see... it's a spaceship.
The flying cigar, you see… it’s a spaceship.

Quickly following on the heels of the announcement that former Baumé chef de cuisine Ryan Shelton was moving further south to take the helm at Bonny Doon’s Cellar Door Café, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that the winery restaurant will get a new name on April 1: Le Cigare Volant. It’s the name of one of Bonny Doon’s more popular wines, a red blend meant to emulate Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and as the Scoop notes it’s also the name of the fictional French restaurant that Niles and Frasier once opened on Frasier, after which much farce ensued. (Winery and restaurant owner Randall Grahm is nothing if not a comedian.) The restaurant got on the map in 2010 largely thanks to the work of former chef Charlie Parker, who did a stint at Plum before moving to L.A., and we look forward to seeing this new incarnation. [Santa Cruz Sentinel via Scoop, Earlier]

Cellar Door Café, Down at Bonny Doon, Gets Renamed Le Cigare Volant