Mark Stark, chef/owner of a trio of Sonoma County’s most popular restaurants, has a simple secret to success. At Willi’s Wine Bar and Monti’s in Santa Rosa and Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar in Healdsburg, ...

Mark and Terri Stark, owners of five popular restaurants in Sonoma County, have a business philosophy that goes something like this: Get out a bar napkin, scratch out a few ideas. Order a beverage.

Michael Hirschberg recalls the naysayers a decade ago watching Mark and Terri Stark open their second restaurant, a seafood eatery in Healdsburg featuring raw oysters. How, the critics wondered, could ...

Mark Stark, chef and owner of five restaurants and a catering company in Sonoma County, told graduates of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Greystone that his greatest motivation is the fear ...

Stark's Steakhouse. All photos: Lisa Adams Walter. Santa Rosa chef Mark Stark knows how to satisfy the carnivorous cravings of his diners by serving them seriously good steak. Stark’s selection ...