Fairfield's Restaurant Week runs October 4 through 10 this year, and if you live in Cordelia, the citywide list will likely point you toward one name on your side of town: Two60 Kitchen + Bar on Pittman Road. That's a fine recommendation. It's also the smaller half of where Cordelia actually eats.
The bigger half doesn't show up on a citywide restaurant list because it isn't inside the city event calendar's frame of reference at all. It sits a few minutes up Suisun Valley Road, in a building that has been standing since 1853, run by a family that owns two restaurants five miles apart and treats both like an extension of the same kitchen.
The name on the list
Two60 Kitchen + Bar opened at 260 Pittman Road in January 2020, brought to Cordelia by Molly Tou, a longtime Fairfield restaurateur who previously ran Sticky Rice Bistro, working alongside Chef Joey Jaraba. The menu leans into what Jaraba calls Pan Asian-American, which in practice means fish and chips next to Shanghai lumpia next to a Korean chicken sandwich, all coming out of the same kitchen without feeling like a compromise between cuisines.
That combination has held up. Reviews dated as recently as August 2026 still describe the same things regulars have been saying since it opened: a bar seating area that fills up for evening TV crowds, a quieter dining room for anyone who wants to actually hear the person across the table, and a fish and chips order that keeps coming up as the thing people default to when they can't decide. Dinner service starts at 4 p.m., and the private room seats up to 60, which is why you'll see it booked for office parties and birthday dinners as often as date nights.
Two60 is a legitimate answer to "where do I eat in Cordelia." It's just not the only one, and treating it as the whole answer misses the part of the neighborhood's food identity that has nothing to do with restaurant week at all.
The five-minute detour that isn't really a detour
Head west out of Cordelia on Suisun Valley Road and you hit Mankas Corner, a stretch of road named for Christley Manka, one of the original owners of a building that went up in 1853 as a stagecoach stop between Berryessa Valley and the port at Suisun City. That building is now Mankas Grill, and the fact that it's older than almost anything else standing in Solano County changes how you should think about it. This isn't a new restaurant borrowing old-timey branding. It's an actual stagecoach stop that has been feeding travelers on this exact stretch of road for over 170 years, just under different names and different ownership.
The restaurant is owned by brothers Kyle and Jason Barraza, who launched it with a kitchen team built around a wine country grill menu: short rib poutine, pork belly nachos, and a tomahawk steak that current diners describe as big enough to split between two or three people. The menu still rotates with the seasons and leans on ingredients from local farms. It's open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner and Sunday morning through afternoon for brunch, closed Mondays, which is worth knowing before you drive out expecting a quiet weeknight dinner and find the doors locked.
What makes Mankas Grill more than a good steakhouse is the family structure behind it. The Barrazas also own The Napa Deli, a sandwich counter about five miles away in Green Valley where their father still works the register. It's a small detail, but it tells you something real estate listings never capture: the food identity of this stretch of Solano County isn't organized around city boundaries. It's organized around one family's two locations, and around how far people are actually willing to drive for a good sandwich or a well-cooked steak.
What fills the gap between lunch and dinner
Mankas Corner isn't just the one restaurant. It's a small cluster that functions as a self-contained food and wine stop, which matters if you're the type who wants to make an afternoon of it rather than just grab dinner and leave. Within the same stretch you'll find:
- Village 360, a wine country complex with tasting rooms and a public house feel, built for lingering rather than a quick stop
- Vezer Family Vineyard, one of the small producers pouring in the immediate area
- BackRoad Vines and Il Fiorello Olive Oil, both destinations in their own right if you're doing a slower Saturday loop
- Suisun Valley Filling Station, the kind of stop that rounds out an afternoon without requiring a reservation
None of these show up on Fairfield's Restaurant Week roster because Restaurant Week is built around participating dinner menus inside city limits. That's a reasonable way to run a promotion. It's a poor way to understand where Cordelia residents actually spend a Saturday afternoon, because the answer is frequently this exact corridor, and it has nothing to do with what the city event calendar is tracking.
Reading the list correctly
None of this means skip Restaurant Week. Two60 is a genuine anchor for Cordelia, and a week built around trying new menus at a fixed price is a reasonable excuse to go if you haven't been in a while. The point is narrower: don't mistake a citywide promotional list for a map of where the neighborhood eats.
If you're planning around the October 4 to 10 window, a workable version of the week looks like this. Use Restaurant Week itself as the excuse to get back to Two60 on a weeknight, since dinner service starts at 4 p.m. and the earlier seating tends to be less of a wait. Save a weekend afternoon for Mankas Corner, where the food and wine cluster rewards slower browsing more than a rushed dinner reservation. Check hours before you go. Mankas Grill's Monday closure and Sunday brunch cutoff have caught more than one visitor off guard, and Village 360's tasting room hours don't run on restaurant time.
The broader pattern is worth sitting with even after the promotional week ends. Cordelia's food identity was never going to be captured by a single downtown-facing list, because the neighborhood's real geography runs west into Suisun Valley as much as it runs toward central Fairfield. A 170-year-old stagecoach stop and a family-run sandwich counter five miles apart tell you more about how this corner of the county actually eats than any seasonal roundup will.
If you're weighing a move into Cordelia and want a fuller picture of what daily life looks like here beyond the food scene, our Cordelia neighborhood guide covers the rest of what makes this stretch of Fairfield distinct. And if you're already thinking about buying or selling in the area, Michael Hulsey has spent years working this exact corridor and can walk you through what's actually happening in the local market, not just what shows up on a seasonal list.
