Madera

Patrick Heig

Citysearch

Both the setting and the food at this restaurant, the centerpiece of the gorgeous Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel--itself the new preferred schmoozing grounds of the Peninsula tech sector--are good enough to justify its popularity. Past the showcase kitchen, where cords of oak sit waiting to be fed into the massive wood-burning oven, a young and moneyed crowd fills a grand, Craftsman-style dining room and a terrace overlooking the hotel's pool and the Santa Cruz mountains. Chef Peter Rudolph, formerly the exec chef at Campton Place, scours farmers markets at the crack of dawn for fresh ingredients…