Longtime Amador County hospitality experts Mark and Tracey Berkner opened Rest in 2016, about 10 years after they opened Taste, now Zagat-rated as one of the Top Restaurants in America. The inn and restaurant are down the street from each other in Plymouth, the town sitting at the gateway to the Shenandoah Valley wine country. The 16-room inn, created from two dilapidated buildings restored into new life, is graciously sophisticated and simple, very comfortable with luxury linens, loads of amenities, impeccable service and pretty grounds. Among many, some nods to its history include sliding barn doors on the lobby office (made from the original buildings’ timber) and some boards hanging above the bar, which have faint scrawls of graffiti. Breakfast and a wine-tasting/appetizer happy hour are included in room rates.

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