Sacramento’s Golden Road for game fanatics: The beer and vegan victories have you covered
Newest team at Golden Road’s ‘Pub Midtown’ focuses on brews, bites and year-round game fun By Casey Rafter Holding glasses of beer that glint yellow…
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Waiting to tell the tale: After 50 years, Chez Panisse’s first waiter decides to dish
Memoir from Sacramento-area restaurant veteran adds a new flavor to the California Cuisine legend By Scott Thomas Anderson Drinkers stepping into the Double A Tap…
From bee to mead showcased at The Hive in Woodland
New experiential honey center opens this weekend This roadside attraction is sure to get people buzzing. Featuring the first varietal honey-and-mead-tasting room of its kind,…
Monk’s Cellar’s new whiskey club brings a reveling reverence for the art
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement The gold-glinting allure of whiskey flows from…
Virtual Village Feast celebrates, supports women working in Sacramento food and Ag
Registration is open for Oct. 9 farm-to-fork experience Here’s your chance to feast like a Dame – and support women who work in food and…
The battle of wine and fire: Inside the struggle to save El Dorado County’s acclaimed vineyards from Caldor
By Scott Thomas Anderson Randy Rossi throws some muscle against the gear-shifter of his Kubota ATV as it plows through broken powder on a mountain…
Post-COVID Kitchen Confidential: Sacramento’s tough-willed cooks and pastry chefs soldier on through an upside down world
Worker shortages, supply chain chaos, constant rule changes, public fear, bad air and petty criminals – life is never boring for the indie kitchens making…
California says goodbye to ‘the Godfather of Barbera’
Dick Cooper’s vision, with advice from the guru of Corti Brothers, launched Plymouth’s international wine phenomenon By Scott Thomas Anderson In the late 1970s, a…
The best Sacramento butchers for lighting up the barbecue season
By Scott Thomas Anderson ‘Summer time, and living’s easy.” At least, it is for those countering the heatwave by igniting their own flames under the…
Downtown Sacramento’s iconic Jim Dennys is Back!
Fabled diner gets new energy from a local chef By Ken Magri Just in time for California’s post-Covid era, Jim Dennys restaurant is back in…
In Sacramento, the Devil gets his icy due
Devil May Care Ice Cream is breaking out of the icebox on flavors By Jocelynn Rubio Downtown Sacramento has gotten devilishly sweeter as Devil May…
How the Old Sugar Mill became a river-bound wine citadel
As the days get warmer, Clarksburg’s great hall of vino is pouring again By Scott Thomas Anderson Spring skies are sparkling against the river near…
Fig collectors’ paradise
While driving north toward Oroville for a Feather River salmon fishing trip in August of 2003, a voluminous tree beside Highway 70 caught my eye….
Editorial: In defense of pandemic drinking
The neo-prohibitionists are back, using COVID as a Trojan horse to sneak their proverbial bottle hatchets into our favorite spots. By Scott Thomas Anderson Even…
The Buckhorn keeps steaks big, brazen and with the old breed
Fourteen miles past Davis is the rancher’s answer to perfect meat cut off the hoof Sun falls on the red, sky-beaten bricks of the DeVilbiss…
How the region’s ports can pour the winter away
When the wind’s fierce and the rain’s cold, those are the perfect evenings for the most devilish kind of wine indulgence. Western Iberia’s vino tradition…
Sunday Farmers’ Market on the move
Visitors to Sacramento’s X Street Farmers’ Market face a longer commute beginning in March as the Sunday staple temporarily moves to the parking lot of Arden Faire mall as construction on Route 50 uproots the weekly event for up to ten months.