Owner Of Willi’s Wine Bar Volunteers After It Burns Down
After: Kent Porter/The Press Democrat
A local favorite, Willi’s Wine Bar was another casualty of the Tubbs fire on the first day of the fire before dawn. The classic roadhouse-style bar was critically acclaimed and a local gem. The bar and restaurant had been on the list of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bay Area Top 100 Restaurants for four consecutive years. Local resident Sue Asay told the LA Times, “It just had so much character. That stuff is the history of the area.”
Just three days after her restaurant burned to the ground, one of the owner of Willi’s, Terri Stark, graciously volunteered to help feed evacuees and emergency responders by working in the kitchen of a restaurant offering free meals. She told the SF Chronicle, “People are on survival mode right now. And they’ve either lost everything, or they evacuated and have nothing to come back to.”
