The Northwood Restaurant (Bistro) is locally owned and operated by Chrissy Schilling (Cronquist), who has an awesome reputation in Sonoma County for the best home-cooked food. Chrissy started her first restaurant with buying Sequoia Burgers in Sebastopol back in 1987, a landmark burger joint since 1962. Under Chris Schilling’s ownership Sequoia Burgers became known for the best burgers in Sonoma County. It was an extremely busy place with the best home cut fries and messiest, best burgers you could get your mouth around. People would come from miles around for her great burgers or make sure it was a stop between wine tasting and/or viewing the natural beauty of Sonoma County.

Fast forward a few years to 1997, Chrissy sold Sequoia Burgers and bought Parkside Cafe on Santa Rosa Avenue in Santa Rosa in 1998. She offered both breakfast and lunch with the same home-cooked goodness that had people flocking to Sequoia Burgers for years for burgers and fries. Mouth watering sandwiches, salads, desserts, and sumptuous amounts of food with selection ranging from Eggs Benedict to Stuffed Waffles. Eating breakfast or lunch at the Parkside Cafe was a feast and meant you could skip a meal for the day. Such caring detail  had people coming from all over the North Bay to have breakfast or lunch when they were in the Wine Country.