The charred threshold of the Manka’s Inverness Lodge front entrance stood firm in the foyer of the inn’s less famous boat house overlooking Tomales Bay on Sunday. An ominous black crow perched atop.

After seven months of renovations — and six years after the Christmas fire that destroyed much of the historic Manka’s Inverness Lodge — the hospitality team of Margaret Grade and Daniel DeLong will ...

Margaret Grade still sifts through the ruins of Manka's main lodge in her mind, seeing the flames that destroyed her beloved restaurant and inn on Dec. 27. Yet at the same time, she's envisioning the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a column by Marin Independent Journal food critic Leslie Harlib. IT’S been six years since I dined at Manka’s, but I vividly remember Manka’s co-owner Daniel DeLong crouching ...

The main hall of Manka's Inverness Lodge, a historic Marin County hunting retreat that became a famed hub of gourmet cuisine, burned to the ground early Wednesday. The shingled structure, built in ...

SOMETIMES a restaurant is more than a restaurant. Manka’s Inverness Lodge, which burned down last week, was such a place. Yes, Manka’s food was special – so special that several of Northern California ...

Within a few hours Tuesday, a project to make a Solano neighborhood safer went from guaranteed approval to staunch public opposition to a continuation. The county’s board of supervisors unanimously ...

Tucked in at the base of the Vaca Mountains at the Solano-Napa county line, Mankas Corner is mostly unnoticed by visitors to wine country. And that’s just fine with the owners of the restaurants, ...