Food & Drink
East Meets Best: Chef Lina Fat
Frank Fat is the de facto downtown home to generations of lobbyists and legislators alike. Enter the wife of Frank Fat’s son Kenneth, Lina Fat, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1950s. While her background isn’t as Horatio Alger as her father-in-law’s, her rise to prominence and her breaking of barriers is no less impressive.
A (New) Christmas Story
A desire to break with tradition has one mom dreaming of a Korean Christmas.
Super Bowls
Kru chef-owner Billy Ngo goes underground to serve up hearty heaps of authentic ramen at his new downtown basement restaurant Kodaiko.
A Rockin’ Jewish Deli
Solomon’s Delicatessen opens downtown at the former site of a Tower Records store, dishing out classic and neoclassic food like lava salt bagels, thick-cut pastrami on rye, vegan Reubens and schmaltz fries that’s music to our taste buds.
The underground Honey & the Trapcat to open in Old Sacramento
Honey & the Trapcat, a new dual-concept restaurant and bar, is slated to open at the end of September in a 6,000-square-foot, basement-level spot in the Old Sacramento Waterfront that formerly housed German beer hall Knobs and Knockers. "We're just trying…
Paradise Found
After a career that took her from being a style maven at Williams-Sonoma to launching a boutique bowling alley in San Francisco, Fair Oaks native Sommer Peterson has returned home, importing a slice of mid-century Palm Springs along the way. She calls her little piece of heaven Shangri-la. You can call it your new home away from home.
Craving of the Week: Identity Coffees' Caramel Mocha Frostee
Whether you want to cool down after a summer bike ride or just want a sweet pick-me-up, the caramel mocha frostee from Identity Coffees may be your new go-to grown-up treat. (It's certainly ours.) The icy concoction was rolled out…
Vanilla, Iced
T Think vanilla’s plain? Ten Ten Room co-owner Tyler Williams sure doesn’t. “I’ve been a fan my entire life,” he enthuses. Sample the downtown cocktail lounge’s new Bourbon Vanilla Milkshake (which the barkeep dreamed up with general manager Kristin Sweeney),…
If Wallpapers Could Talk
The Snug 1800 15th St. 916-619-8897 snugca.com T The great California modernist Charles Eames once said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” In creating The Snug, their new Irish cocktail bar on R Street, owners Henry and Simon…
The Boy with the Dragon Tattoo
The list of his regulars reads like a Rolodex of Sacramento’s culinary elite. Randall Selland. Molly Hawks. Ginger Elizabeth. Now, two years after opening the sophisticated expansion of his celebrated restaurant Kru—known for its exquisitely crafted sushi—top chef Billy Ngo is going underground, literally, for a new venture with a concept as unpretentious as he is: a basement ramen bar. How did a boy born in a Hong Kong refugee camp become a thirtysomething star of Japanese cuisine in Sacramento? The story, it turns out, is written in ink. On his skin. And luckily, for those who haven’t seen him naked, it’s also told in the pages that follow.
Tailor Made
California cool meets British haberdashery at chef Oliver Ridgeway’s new brasserie, Camden Spit & Larder.
He Has the Meats
Chef-owner Sam Marvin targets contemporary carnivores with the opening of a modern steakhouse at Downtown Commons.
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