Food & Drink
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.
Flights of Fancy
Food flights! From a trio of house-made ice cream to a quartet of bacon strips and a quintet of frozen cocktails, we’ve got eight great medleys that are triple (or quadruple or quintuple) the fun. Sacramento, get ready for takeoff.
The Great Sacramento Beer Boom of 2018
If you’re a beer lover (or even a mere beer liker), there’s never been a better time to soak up the suds, with yet another pub popping up seemingly every week around town. Have foam FOMO? Here are 10 cool new places to grab a pint, from Ruhstaller’s underground downtown bar to the moxie-infused Moksa brewery in Rocklin. Hop to it—it’s always beer o’clock somewhere in Sacramento.
An Instant Classic
The new locale from Sacramento’s most prolific new husband-and-wife restaurateurs takes you back to a time of mid-century manners, meals and mixology.
A la Cart
Tiger—a new bi-level restaurant and bar on K Street—reinvents the dining wheel with dim-sum-style trolleys that roll out inventive craft cocktails and tasty New American bites.
Opposites Attract
The buzzy new Beast & Bounty draws diners on both ends of the food spectrum with a smoking-hot menu that is as veggie friendly as it is meat forward.
A Man for All Seasons
At his new midtown restaurant, chef Chris Barnum puts the "local" in Localis with his inventive farm-fresh fare.
New Glory Craft Brewery opens new taproom and eatery in Granite Bay
New Glory Craft Brewery is pairing pies—pizza pies, that is—with pints at its new restaurant in Granite Bay, which held its soft opening in mid-October and will host a grand opening later this year. Unlike the brewery’s existing taproom near Sacramento's Colonial Village neighborhood,…
Taste: New food truck Nash & Proper dishes up tongue-tingling hot chicken, and other dining news for Oct. 18
The bird is the word at Nash & Proper, a new mobile hot chicken joint that has been heating up the region's food truck scene since it debuted at the Our Street Night Market along the R Street Corridor in…
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