Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Sonoma from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Sonoma
Tasting menus in our guide are at Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Santé in Sonoma, and Bohemian Bistro in Occidental.
Enclos is a Modern California Coastal restaurant in Sonoma Plaza. It holds Michelin 3 Stars (2026) and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Chef Brian Limoges and Wine Director Ian Cobb run a tasting menu with French technique, Pacific and New England influences, and hyper-local Sonoma ingredients. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led: a 320-label list strong in California and France.
Santé is a Modern California-French restaurant in Sonoma, the signature restaurant at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn. The kitchen uses hyper-local Sonoma ingredients and serves a la carte, prix fixe, family style, and seasonal tasting menus. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list.
Bohemian Bistro is a French-influenced fine-dining restaurant in Occidental. The room is a small white-tablecloth setting. Formats are prix fixe, a la carte, and a tasting menu. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and a strong local wine focus.
Citywide, our guide counts three restaurants with Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and one with Award of Excellence. They are Enclos, Hazel Hill, Layla at MacArthur Place, and Stella.
Enclos is a Modern California Coastal restaurant in Sonoma Plaza. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and Michelin 3 Stars (2026). Wine Director Ian Cobb runs an exceptional, sommelier-led program: a 320-label list strong in California and France. The kitchen serves a tasting menu with French technique, Pacific and New England influences, and hyper-local Sonoma ingredients.
Hazel Hill is a French-Inspired California Cuisine restaurant in Healdsburg with vineyard views and exclusive estate wines. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence (2026). Chef Jason Pringle draws on local producers, and a seasonal harvest section is part of the menu. The exceptional sommelier-led cellar holds 4,000 bottles, weighted toward California and France.
Layla at MacArthur Place is a Mediterranean Farm-to-Table restaurant in Sonoma. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence (2026) and Forbes Recommended (2026). The room includes garden patio dining, and the cooking is farm-to-table Mediterranean, using California produce. The wine program has an extensive wine list, served a la carte.
Stella is a California-Italian Wood-Fired restaurant in Kenwood. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026) and appears in Sonoma Magazine Best New Restaurants of 2025. Chef Ari Weiswasser, a James Beard semifinalist, features house-made pastas and live-fire grilling. The wine program has an extensive list. Formats include a la carte, family style, and small plates.
Among the 22 wineries in our guide, Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards in Carneros produces méthode traditionnelle estate sparkling wines. Hanzell Vineyards in Sonoma pioneered barrel-aging and malolactic fermentation in California.
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards is a winery in Carneros. It has a Falstaff Winery listing (2026). It is the first sparkling winery in Carneros, with estate sparkling wines made by the méthode traditionnelle, terrace views over the valley, and caves that keep production visible to visitors.
Hanzell Vineyards is a winery in Sonoma. Its Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines are the oldest continuously producing vines of those varieties in North America. Burgundian methods at the estate include barrel-aging and malolactic fermentation, the techniques it pioneered in California.
Gundlach Bundschu Winery is a winery in Sonoma Valley. It has a Falstaff Winery listing (2026). It is the oldest continuously family-owned winery in California, operating since 1858. The estate uses low-intervention viticulture and estate-grown fruit, and it offers off-road vineyard tours in a Pinzgauer.
Aperture Cellars is a winery in Russian River Valley. It appears in World's 50 Best Vineyards (2025). The gallery-style hospitality center displays photographs by Andy Katz. The winery sources fruit from cool-climate vineyards.
Sonoma Plaza has exceptional restaurant wine programs at Enclos and Valley in our guide. Enclos keeps a sommelier-led 320-label list strong in California and France. Valley keeps a natural wine list of organic and biodynamic selections. Hazel Hill in Healdsburg, Wit and Wisdom Sonoma in Downtown Sonoma, Santé in Sonoma, Bohemian Bistro in Occidental, and Aya in Rohnert Park also hold exceptional wine programs.
Our guide counts one Michelin-starred restaurant in Sonoma and three Michelin stars in total. All of those stars are at Enclos in Sonoma Plaza. Enclos runs a tasting menu in a restored Victorian home, with French technique and hyper-local Sonoma ingredients. The latest Michelin award for Enclos is from 2026.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Santé in Sonoma, and Bohemian Bistro in Occidental. Enclos serves its tasting menu with French technique, Pacific and New England influences, and hyper-local Sonoma ingredients. Santé, at Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn, offers seasonal tasting menus of modern California-French cooking. Bohemian Bistro offers a tasting menu and prix fixe in a small white-tablecloth room.
Four restaurants in our guide hold Wine Spectator awards. Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Hazel Hill in Healdsburg, and Layla at MacArthur Place in Sonoma hold Best of Award of Excellence. Hazel Hill and Layla at MacArthur Place hold that award for 2026. Stella in Kenwood holds Award of Excellence for 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Enclos earned two Michelin stars in its first full year on Sonoma's East Napa Street, placing contemporary Californian cooking at the summit of the town's dining tier. Chef Brian Limoges and Wine Director Ian Cobb run a tight, focused operation with a 320-label list strong in California and France. For serious dining in Wine Country, this is the address that matters in 2025.
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El Molino Central holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand (2025) and an Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats ranking, placing it among the more credentialed casual Mexican kitchens in Northern California. Located on Central Avenue in Sonoma, it runs six days a week from 11am, with Friday through Sunday opening at 9am. At the $$ price point, it represents a rare intersection of award-level cooking and accessible pricing in a wine-country town better known for fine dining.
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Valley on Sonoma's First Street West earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition two years running by doing what much of California wine country resists: offering honest, ingredient-forward Californian cooking at a genuinely accessible price. Salads, small plates, pasta, and protein served without ceremony in a setting that feels like the town itself..
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Layla at MacArthur Place reads Sonoma through a hotel-restaurant lens: California produce, Mediterranean inflection, and wine-country pacing rather than tasting-menu ceremony. The room, terrace, and all-day format make it useful for travelers who want a polished meal without leaving the 64-room MacArthur Place property, while the menu keeps enough local-seasonal discipline to belong in Sonoma’s farm-to-table conversation.
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A Michelin Plate-recognized Californian restaurant on Sonoma's East Napa Street, Cafe La Haye has anchored the town square dining scene for decades with a menu that tracks the seasons and the farms surrounding it. The room is compact and the approach is direct: local sourcing, confident technique, and a wine list that draws on the valley at its doorstep.
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Named one of Sonoma Magazine's Best New Restaurants of 2025, Poppy sits in Glen Ellen on Arnold Drive, a stretch of the Valley of the Moon where produce-driven cooking and wine country informality set the tone for the whole corridor. The recognition lands it in the company of particularly watched newcomers in the county, at a moment when Sonoma's dining scene is drawing sharper national attention.
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Russian River Pub sits on River Road in Forestville, at the rural heart of the Russian River Valley where Sonoma County's wine country gives way to redwood-shaded back roads. The pub draws locals and visitors alike with the kind of grounded, place-specific character that defines the valley's quieter corners. For travelers moving between Healdsburg and the coast, it reads as a genuine stop rather than a curated destination.
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Counter-service Lebanese in Sonoma wine country, where Chef Cristina Topham leans hard on citrus. The spreads and mezzes arrive in concentrated, acid-bright form, lemon threading through nearly every dish on the menu. In a town tilted toward Californian and contemporary formats, Spread Kitchen occupies a different register entirely.
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Named one of Sonoma Magazine's Best New Restaurants of 2025, Stella sits on Sonoma Highway in Kenwood at the edge of wine country's working corridor. The recognition places it among a small cohort of newer openings drawing serious attention in a county where established names have long dominated dinner reservations. Booking ahead is advisable given its early-recognition status.
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Waterhawk Lake Club arrived on Rohnert Park's Roberts Lake waterfront and earned a spot on Sonoma Magazine's Best New Restaurants list for 2025 before most locals had found it. The lake-club format positions it differently from Sonoma's wine-country dining corridor, trading vineyard views for open water and a setting that draws a loyal crowd back on rotation.
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Wit and Wisdom Sonoma holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, placing it among a select tier of dining addresses on Sonoma's Broadway. Located at 1325 Broadway in the heart of Sonoma's town square district, it occupies a competitive bracket alongside the county's most recognised tables, where wine-country sensibility and culinary seriousness converge.
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Aya brings Californian cooking into Sonoma’s farm-country conversation, where seasonality is not a slogan but the baseline expectation. With no public awards or chef-led mythology to lean on, the interest is simpler: how a Sonoma restaurant reads the region’s produce, wine-country tempo, and casual dining culture without turning dinner into a tasting-menu performance.
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Bohemian Bistro brings a French lens to Sonoma, a city where the table is often shaped as much by nearby farms and cellar culture as by formal technique. The draw is less about ceremony than fit: French bistro cooking makes sense here because it gives local produce, dairy, bread, and wine a familiar structure without turning the meal into a tasting-menu event.
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CaliForno Street Eats sits in Sonoma’s casual dining lane, where wine-country produce and quick-service informality meet. With few formal signals published, the useful read is contextual: treat it as part of Sonoma’s broader ingredient-driven food culture rather than a trophy-table reservation, especially when comparing it with the city’s more structured Californian, French, and Mexican dining rooms.
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A long-running Italian trattoria on Sonoma's East Napa Street, Della Santina's operates in a town where wine-country dining tends toward Californian eclecticism. The kitchen draws on Northern Italian traditions, positioning the restaurant as a counterpoint to the farm-to-table formats that dominate the plaza. For visitors calibrating their Sonoma itinerary, it represents a deliberate shift in register.
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Dry Creek General Store sits on Dry Creek Road in Healdsburg, occupying a position where working agricultural country and wine tourism intersect. The store operates as a local provisioning point in one of Sonoma County's most productive grape-growing valleys, making it a practical stop for those spending time in the Dry Creek AVA. Its address places it within reach of several notable Healdsburg wineries and roadside producers.
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El Dorado Kitchen occupies a prominent address on Sonoma's historic Plaza, positioning itself within the town's mid-to-upper dining tier alongside Californian-focused peers. The kitchen draws on the region's agricultural depth, placing it in a competitive set where wine-country sourcing and seasonal pacing define the dining experience. It is a practical base for visitors moving between the Plaza and the broader Sonoma Valley wine circuit.
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Gaige House sits in Glen Ellen, just outside Sonoma's plaza, at the quieter edge of the Wine Country accommodation spectrum. The property draws guests who want proximity to the valley's farms and vineyards without the scale of a resort.
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LaSalette Restaurant on Sonoma's First Street East brings a Portuguese-inflected sensibility to wine country dining, drawing on the region's notable produce network. Positioned in the mid-to-upper tier of the Sonoma Plaza dining scene, it offers an alternative to the California-Californian formula dominant in the area, with a kitchen approach grounded in direct sourcing from the surrounding agricultural corridor.
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A Sonoma Plaza fixture since 1959, Mary's Pizza Shack on West Spain Street represents the kind of neighborhood Italian-American institution that wine country towns quietly depend on. Direct red-sauce cooking and a casual, family-friendly room sit in deliberate contrast to the fine-dining density a block away. For visitors whose itinerary already includes a tasting room, it fills a different and necessary slot.
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On Sonoma's central plaza, Oso Sonoma occupies a spot in the town's compact dining scene where the pace of the meal matters as much as what's on the plate. The restaurant sits in a price tier that positions it between the casual and the formal, drawing a crowd that takes its food seriously without ceremony. For visitors planning a day around the Sonoma Valley, it merits a place in the itinerary alongside the wine stops.
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A former Victorian family estate on five acres in the heart of Sonoma town, MacArthur Place has operated as a hotel under the Ace Hotel Group banner with 69 rooms, an on-site spa, three distinct food and beverage venues, and complimentary electric bikes for winery access. The property's historic farm buildings and flagstone garden paths set it apart from the larger resort formats that define much of Wine Country lodging.
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El Dorado Hotel sits on Sonoma's First Street West, earning a place on the 2025 Michelin Selected Hotels list, a distinction that places it among a curated tier of California wine country properties recognised for consistent quality. The address positions guests at the centre of Sonoma Plaza, within walking distance of the town's tasting rooms, restaurants, and weekend farmers market.
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A historic Fairmont property in the heart of Sonoma Valley, the Mission Inn & Spa sits above its own source of geothermal mineral waters and within five minutes of the Sonoma town square. The 40,000-square-foot Willow Stream Spa, 226 guestrooms and suites, and daily complimentary wine tastings place it firmly in the full-service resort tier of California wine country accommodation.
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Gaige House occupies a late-Victorian inn in Glen Ellen, sitting at the quieter, more residential end of Sonoma Valley's lodging spectrum. The property draws travelers who want proximity to valley floor wineries without the scale of a resort. Its position in Glen Ellen places it close to Jack London State Historic Park and the Benziger and Imagery estates.
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A Victorian ranch house on Sonoma Highway in Glen Ellen, Beltane Ranch sits at the intersection of Wine Country agricultural heritage and understated California lodging. The property draws guests seeking proximity to Valley of the Moon wineries without the resort-hotel formality that characterises larger Sonoma operations. It occupies a category of its own among Wine Country stays.
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Hyatt Place Sonoma Wine Country occupies a practical middle tier in a county where most lodging skews either toward boutique inn intimacy or full-service resort pricing. The property sits within reach of Sonoma's plaza and surrounding appellation roads, making it a functional base for wine-focused itineraries. Travelers who prioritize access over atmosphere will find it calibrated accordingly.
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Soho Ranch House Sonoma sits in a Sonoma hotel conversation increasingly shaped by design language, privacy, and access to wine country rather than old resort scale alone. With limited public venue data available, the useful reading is comparative: treat it as part of the county’s newer hospitality shift, then measure it against established Sonoma stays by setting, service depth, and planning certainty.
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Vinarosa Resort & Spa sits along Barnes Road in Santa Rosa, placing it within reach of Sonoma County's wine country corridor without the premium address markup of Healdsburg's main strip. The property operates as a spa-anchored resort in a region where agritourism, vineyard proximity, and farm-to-table dining have become the baseline expectation for premium stays.
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Cline Cellars sits on Arnold Drive in Sonoma's Carneros corridor, where the terrain flattens and the bay influence becomes palpable. The estate draws visitors into a slower, landscape-driven rhythm that distinguishes Carneros from the more trafficked Highway 12 route.
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Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards sits at the southern edge of the Carneros appellation, where marine fog from San Pablo Bay produces the cool growing conditions that define its méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine program. The estate's hillside terraces overlook estate vines, and cave infrastructure keeps the production process visible to visitors.
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One of Sonoma's oldest continuously operated family wineries, Gundlach Bundschu sits on the Rhinefarm estate in the Carneros AVA, where a commitment to low-intervention viticulture and estate-grown fruit has shaped its reputation across generations.
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Bedrock Wine Co. operates from the historic Sonoma Plaza. The focus lands squarely on old-vine heritage varieties and Sonoma's pre-Prohibition viticultural past, positioning Bedrock as a reference point for anyone tracing the region's deeper winemaking identity rather than its Cabernet-forward mainstream.
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One of Sonoma's oldest established wine estates, Buena Vista sits along Old Winery Rd with a tasting room format that rewards visitors who arrive with time to spare. It is a reference point for understanding how Sonoma's wine identity developed before the region's modern commercial era.
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Hanzell Vineyards sits at the northern edge of Sonoma Valley. The estate operates at the intersection of serious viticulture and considered hospitality, drawing visitors who treat wine tasting as an exercise in place-reading rather than leisure browsing.
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One of Sonoma's most historically rooted wineries, Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery sits steps from the town plaza at 389 4th St E. The tasting experience draws on deep local viticultural history, positioning it firmly within Sonoma's elder tier of estate producers rather than the newer wave of small-batch boutique labels.
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The estate addresses old-world restraint against a California backdrop, placing it in a distinct tier among Carneros-focused producers and drawing visitors who want something measured rather than muscular.
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The property sits within a category of estate wineries that position themselves as both agricultural and experiential, with the family name tied to one of California's more distinctive cross-industry legacies.
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Nicholson Ranch sits along Napa Road at the southern edge of Sonoma Valley, where the Carneros climate shapes wines with distinctive cool-weather character. The ranch setting and proximity to the valley's Carneros AVA make it a reference point for understanding how geography drives style in this part of California wine country.
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The winery has built its reputation around the cool-climate grape varieties that define Sonoma's most serious vineyards. For those moving through California's premium Pinot and Chardonnay circuit, it sits near the upper end of the Sonoma tier.
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Ram's Gate Winery sits at the southern edge of Sonoma Valley on Arnold Drive, where the Carneros wind corridor shapes every growing season. The property functions as a destination in its own right, drawing visitors who want serious wine in a setting that matches the ambition of what's in the glass.
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Scribe Winery sits at the quieter, estate-focused end of Sonoma's wine country. The property occupies historic land in the Carneros area south of Sonoma town, operating in a tier of California wineries that trade volume for a more considered, appointment-led experience.
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Three Sticks Wines occupies a historic adobe on Sonoma's West Spain Street. The tasting experience draws a loyal following for its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay focus, positioning it within Sonoma's smaller, appointment-driven winery tier where format and sourcing matter as much as the wines themselves.
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Hacienda Wine Cellars belongs to Sonoma’s historical layer rather than its polished tasting-room circuit. Founded in 1973 by Frank Bartholomew and later replaced by Bartholomew Park Winery on the same property, it is useful for readers tracing vineyard land, legacy labels, and the way older Sonoma wine identities survive through place as much as current hospitality.
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Kutch Wines sits in Sonoma’s quieter coastal Pinot Noir conversation: restrained, small-lot, and focused on cold maritime vineyards rather than cellar showmanship. The emphasis is Pinot Noir and Chardonnay shaped by native fermentations, neutral French oak, and a developing Sebastopol estate planted to both varieties.
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RAEN Winery belongs to the quieter side of Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir: small-lot, site-led, and built around restraint rather than weight. Founded in 2013 by Carlo Mondavi and Dante Mondavi, it focuses on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay shaped by coastal conditions, whole-cluster fermentation, native yeasts, and neutral French oak.
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Dunstan Wines - Durell Vineyard belongs to Sonoma’s quieter estate-tasting tier: small-scale, appointment-led, and centered on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Durell Vineyard. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle, with a restored early 1900s ranch house setting and a focus on sustainable farming, vineyard views, and a private seated format.
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Monte Rosso Estate sits on a high-elevation volcanic ridge in the Moon Mountain District of Sonoma, where thin, iron-rich soils and sharp diurnal temperature swings push vines toward concentrated, structured wines. The estate's heritage plantings and demanding geology place it among California's most closely watched mountain-grown red wine addresses. Visitors come to understand what altitude does to fruit, and the wines answer that question directly.
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The Donum Estate occupies a particular tier in Carneros wine country where art installation, land stewardship, and serious Pinot Noir production converge. It draws a returning clientele less interested in tasting-room theatre than in the slow accumulation of knowledge about a single, well-defined site. For visitors prepared to engage on those terms, the estate delivers a depth of experience that justifies repeated visits across vintages.
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