The World's Best Restaurants · 2026
Healdsburg, United States
japanese experience informs the meal's rhythm and attentiveness, while Sonoma gives it substance and season.
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SingleThread makes farming part of authorship rather than a sourcing footnote. Kyle Connaughton's ten-course, kaiseki-inspired menu is built in direct conversation with Katina Connaughton's 24-acre farm, where planting, harvest, preservation, flowers and honey are planned as parts of one hospitality system. Japanese experience informs the meal's rhythm and attentiveness, while Sonoma gives it substance and season. The restaurant, farm and five-room inn have operated together since 2016, supported by senior staff whose tenures reach back to opening. That integration gives SingleThread a rare ability to control not only technique, but the conditions from which the menu begins.
Planting and harvest decisions are linked directly to kitchen development, giving seasonality a working structure that reaches beyond purchasing from a list of preferred suppliers.
Kaiseki informs progression, detail and hospitality, but the products and changing conditions of Sonoma keep the cuisine rooted in its own place and time.
Restaurant, farm and inn share leadership and standards, allowing food, flowers, rooms, service and guest preferences to be composed as one continuous experience.
The assessment verifies the live tasting format, current leaders, staff continuity, farm acreage and documented operating practices. It does not assume that regenerative claims guarantee flavour, and it makes no first-hand assertion about a particular harvest, course or service.
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