At SingleThread, a $525 Dinner Starts With the Farm

HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA — At SingleThread, the farm is part of the explanation for the bill. Kyle and Katina Connaughton's restaurant serves a ten-course, kaiseki-inspired tasting, drawing on the seasons of Sonoma County. Its official gift-certificate form lists dinner at $525 per person before tax and a nightly wine pairing at $300 before tax. Together, those reference prices produce an $825 subtotal per diner, or $1,650 for two.

There is an important qualification. The same form describes dining experiences as ranging from $475 to $525 and says prices can change. Its dinner selector uses $525, but that is a gift-planning reference rather than a live quote for a chosen night. The selected date and experience determine the reservation price. Gift planning and a confirmed dinner booking remain different transactions.

The restaurant's identity is more specific than the broad phrase farm-to-table suggests. Katina leads a 24-acre property in Dry Creek Valley, with culinary crops and flowers contributing to the operation. The farm describes hundreds of varieties grown through the seasons and fields worked by hand. This gives the dinner an agricultural calendar of its own, rather than a fixed procession of luxury ingredients that can be repeated unchanged throughout the year.

Kyle's cooking draws on substantial time in Japan and his earlier work in restaurant research and development. Katina's responsibilities also reach into foraging and floral design. Those roles make the connection between the field and the dining room unusually concrete: growing, selecting and arranging are part of the same project. The restaurant offers its ten-course menu around guests' dietary requirements, subject to its published limits.

An archival Eater visit makes that approach visible. In its 2022 coverage, the kitchen paired squash with sashimi and used different parts of the plant across the preparation. The film is a useful look at technique and the relationship with the farm, but no diner should book expecting that old dish to appear unchanged. Seasonal cooking is only meaningful if the kitchen is free to move on.

Eater's 2022 film from the SingleThread kitchen — archival footage of the farm-to-table approach, not the current menu.

The financial commitment starts before arrival. SingleThread says dining reservations are confirmed only after full prepayment through OpenTable. Bookings cannot be canceled or rescheduled, although they can be transferred to another guest for the same date and time. Sales tax is added at checkout, and gratuity is encouraged rather than described as included. The restaurant asks diners to allow at least two and a half hours.

There is a second route for travelers: staying in the five-room inn comes with a guaranteed restaurant reservation and included breakfast. That does not mean the ten-course dinner is included in the room rate. The distinction matters when comparing the cost of an overnight trip with dinner alone, especially if a reader is tempted to treat guaranteed access as a complimentary meal.

SingleThread's strongest luxury argument is the continuity between the growing and the cooking. The changing harvest gives the meal an identity beyond its list of expensive ingredients. Meanwhile, the $300 pairing reference makes wine a substantial share of the evening's spending. Prepayment and the final-sale policy add another dimension: this is a commitment of time as well as money.

Prices are US dollars, checked November 11, 2026. A listed experience is not verified seat availability. No reservation was made, no specific night was confirmed, and this is reported analysis rather than a firsthand tasting review.