Walnut Creek Restaurant in Spotlight For Al Fresco Dining

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Our beautiful summer weather encourages al fresco dining, but combined with the COVID-19 delta variant surge, more people are opting to dine outside when dining out.

Some restaurants are worth trying because of their hidden gardens and patios.

The Bay Area News Group recently chose nine Bay Area restaurants that have mastered the outdoors, including Bounty Hunter in Walnut Creek.

Bounty Hunter was praised for its tasty barbecue, but received accolades for its garden dining, "Follow your server through the handsome leather-and-suede dining room and out the back door, and you’ll emerge into a lush, shaded garden with high hedges and large trees, trellised flowers and bistro tables. It’s a charming, bustling and sizable hideaway, complete with an impressive stone koi pond."

Bounty Hunter is one of four East Bay restaurants selected for the listing. The others are

• Fieldwork Brewing Co., 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon
• The Dead Fish, 20050 San Pablo Ave., Crockett
• Hofkuche, a German restaurant at 478 25th St., Oakland

Elsewhere in the Bay Area, one North Bay restaurant was selected, and four on the Peninsula or in the South Bay:

• Le Garage, 85 Liberty Ship Way, #109, Sausalito
• Noelani’s Island Grill, 1037 Laurel St., San Carlos
• Caffe Riace, 200 Sheridan Ave., Palo Alto
• Paesano Ristorante, 350 W. Julian St., San Jose
• MOHI Social at the Granada, 17440 Monterey Road, Morgan Hill

Read about all of the restaurants at the Bay Area News Group