âDo you want the real story?â
The willingness of Josiah Baldivino and his wife Stevie Stacionis to admit that their decision to open a second location of their popular Oakland wine shop Bay Grape in Napa came on the heels of a clarity-inducing mushroom trip in Snow Canyo, Utah, is enough to show that this really isnât your typical Napa wine business.
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âBut that happened later,â Stacionis reminded her husband, for itâs not quite as 1970s as it sounds.
Like many, the couple had been having a particularly rough summer, and on top of the pandemic and months of social unrest, their 8-month-old restaurant Mama Oakland, which had just started gaining momentum, had to shut down.