Forget the diet and treat yourself to Napa Valley’s finest this February.

We love staying, playing and dining in Yountville. Our wallets, though? Not so much. This Napa Valley enclave of Michelin star restaurants and posh resorts can be cha-ching. Yet through February 28, in a “Moveable Feast” promotion, many of the town’s businesses have joined together to offer discounts reaching up to 50 percent off for resort packages, multi-course restaurant meals and wine tastings.

Strings attached? Nope. It’s all part of an effort by the Chamber of Commerce to drive more traffic during the winter “off” season. Score!

We scouted out the smoking-est steals and cheapest thrills:

1. Best Hotel Deal: The Bordeaux House package is nearly free at $165/double since it also includes breakfast, a VIP wine tasting at Goosecross Cellars and three-course lunch at Hurley’s Restaurant.

2. Best Indulgence that’s Still a Bargain: Bardessono, baby. The lavish eco-resort is one of three LEED platinum properties in the world, and the opulent package offers a luxurious king spa suite, a three-course dinner at the resort restaurant, and VIP wine tasting at Hill Family Estate for $430 (do the math: just the room alone goes for $855-plus in high season).

3. Best Kept Secret: The “secret garden” tasting tour with winery proprietor Ryan Hill from Hill Family Estate. Take a spin through Jacobsen Orchards just steps from downtown Yountville and marvel at the 1.3-acre oasis of figs, walnuts, peaches, apples, persimmons, plums, quince, edible grasses and boutique vegetables and herbs. The property helps feed The French Laundry, and if you time it right, you can see the chefs themselves plucking their daily take. Ok, you really should wait for when the garden is in spring bloom for the tour, but get a head start now with a Riedel glass tasting at Hill.

4. Best Restaurant: Bistro Jeanty, with lunch at $55 per couple, or dinner at $70 per couple. It’s a three-course, multi-choice feast, starting with delicacies like escargot or a tomato soup that’s made with a decadent 3/4-cup of cream per serving, then capped with puff pastry. Then, tackle a huge slab of quiche draped in bubbling cheese, or slow roasted pork shoulder with butternut squash gratin, Brussels sprouts and bacon. For a sweet finish, it’s rum raisin bread pudding, or crepe Suzette, in a lacy round as large as a pizza and slathered in orange butter.

5. Best B&B&B: Bed and breakfast, plus lunch at Bottega. Italian rustic cuisine doesn’t get any better than what comes from celeb-chef Michael Chiarello’s kitchen. Accommodations are also a bargain at the two Four Sisters Inns – the historic Maison Fleurie (1873) and Lavender. Digs include a deluxe king guestroom with daily breakfast and afternoon hors d’ oeuvres, lunch for two at Bottega and VIP wine tasting at Hope & Grace Winery, starting at $280/double.

6. Best Way to Start the Day: Breakfast has been reinvented at Hopper Creek Kitchen inside the brand new Hotel Yountville. Chef Adam Clark makes dinner worthy dishes like “Duck ‘n’ Donuts (crisp-skinned duck confit with bite-size yuzu cream-filled donuts dusted with five spice, over quince agrodolce), risotto (with preserved strawberries, lavender mint, apple vincotto and caramelized pears) and maple pork consommé (a Barrett Farm egg that’s been poached at 63 degrees for 45 minutes, bobbing in a maple pork broth and sprinkled with togarashi spice). Take it in with the hotel’s getaway package including a premium king guestroom, dinner for two at Mustard’s Grill and wine tasting at Hope & Grace Winery starting at $350/double.

7. Best Spa: The new retreat at Villagio Inn & Spa redefines pampering. Start with an aromatherapy deep tissue massage in a private suite set with a flickering fireplace. Then have your butler draw a bubble bath in your suite’s own Jacuzzi tub, complete with champagne and a mini feast of nibbles like Asian shrimp and noodles, crab salad sandwiches, fruit tarts and cheeses. For the promo package, guests then retire to an elegant Tuscan-style guestroom, including a champagne breakfast buffet, a three-course lunch at Bottega and VIP tasting at V Wine Cellar for $360/double (spa services are extra, though all rooms include daily complimentary access to the spa facilities, for outdoor soaking tubs, Swiss showers, steam and sauna).

8. Best Thomas Keller Experience: No, there are no discounts on The French Laundry, but there are deals going down at Ad Hoc, Bouchon Bakery, and Bouchon Bistro. At Ad Hoc, diners eating between 5 and 6 p.m. can get a $39 three-course meal, while Bouchon Bistro will seat guests between 10 p.m. and midnight for a $25 three-course meal. At Bouchon Bakery, every coffee purchase scores a free chocolate bouchon.

9. Best Way to Feel Like a Haute Hobo: Napa Valley Railway Inn, for $195/double. Includes a suite in a classic 100-year old railcar set along the original 1870 Napa Valley Railroad track, plus a three-course lunch at Hurley’s Restaurant and VIP wine tastings at seven wine lounges throughout town. You can’t beat the location in the center of the action, nor the romance of the rails.

10. Best Way to do the Moveable Feast by Barely Moving: We love that Yountville is a walkable town, but for the ultimate in lazy escapes, it’s the Hotel Luca package, which features lodging in the barely year-old Tuscan-style boutique property, breakfast and a three course-dinner at the hotel’s Cantinetta Piero and a private wine tasting for two at Ma(i)sonry right next door for $299/double.

BONUS – Best Bizarre Fact To Discover as You Wander Around: When the Somerston Wine Co. market opens in April, next to the Somerston tasting room smack dab in downtown, it will feature fresh, fresh, fresh eggs. Somerston’s own flock of hens produces 100 dozen eggs per week. At an average of one egg per chicken per day, that’s — carry the 10, add the dozen — a heck of a lot of chickens.

Moveable Feast in Yountville, Jan. 1 – Feb. 28.

Article courtesy of Carey Sweet, 944.com