Outdoor Dining independent inns

A small bed-and-breakfast on Sonoma's Broadway, the Bancroft Inn keeps things elegant but unfussy — rooms done in a country-chic register that suits the valley outside. Out back, a garden makes room for open-air dining, the kind of setting that turns a morning coffee into a long one. With fewer than thirty reviews on the books, it remains a quiet find rather than a well-trodden one.