Food & Drink
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.
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.
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