When Tim and Demi Winter opened Luma just six months ago, they wanted to create a restaurant that was cozy and casual in an intimate neighborhood setting. “We wouldn’t have opened a restaurant anywhere else,” says Demi about the riverfront warehouse district in downtown Petaluma. “It’s all about this particular location.” The former city dwellers were attracted by the neighborhood’s industrial backdrop and use many of the products from nearby businesses…

The marvelous painting by John Collins that hangs on the wall opposite the entrance to Luma in the riverfront warehouse district of Petaluma sums up a lot about the place. It’s smart and sophisticated, its colors carefully chosen and harmonic, and it’s painted with a deft but free hand. The same things can be said about the food coming from chef Jen Solomon’s kitchen. Luma was conceived by owners Tim…

Luma was destined to be a neighborhood restaurant even before there was a neighborhood. (via Bite Club Eats) Newly minted restaurateur Tim Tatum (who developed several multi-story loft houses along G Street in Petaluma’s warehouse district) always envisioned this cozy corner as a gathering spot for the 150-plus new residences along this once-stark industrial stretch along the Petaluma River . (Three Twins Ice Cream and Cowgirl Creamery have warehouses across…