Mary's Pizza Shack (Sonoma Plaza)

Sonoma Plaza's garden cafe: breakfast and lunch on a leafy back patio with the duck pond playground across the square.

The playground inside the historic plaza: two age-split structures, a sand pit, a duck pond and huge shade trees, with cheese shops, bakeries and ice cream all around.

A playground with bocce and volleyball courts, picnic tables and the small Depot Park Museum next door.

Thin-crust New Haven-style pizza half a block off the Plaza, with patio seating.

A year-round beer garden and listening room with live music.

Sonoma's family-run adobe-style inn: garden pool, hot tub, free breakfast, and lawns kids can run on, a ten-minute walk from the Plaza.