Feb 28, 2025
In 1975, Bill and Denise Dalton opened an English-style pub at 10th and R streets. The building was a warehouse and factory, more than 60 years old, fronted by bricks with high ceilings.
It was an unlikely setting, a traditional English pub in an industrial part of town.
Fifty years later, Fox & Goose Public House is a permanent fixture. The pub helped launch music careers, political careers and hospitality careers. It inspired convivial evenings of laughter and friendship for generations.
Named after Bill Dalton’s hometown pub in Yorkshire, Fox & Goose is more than a good bar, more than one of the city’s best breakfast spots. The Goose’s dedication to community, arts and Downtown is exceptional.
Feb 28, 2025
Alaro Craft Brewery and gastropub expands the long history of Midtown microbreweries with a farm-to-fork emphasis.
In the old Rubicon brewery location on Capitol Avenue, owners Ray and Annette Ballestero built an elevated beer experience with Spanish-style tapas and small bites, along with classic pub offerings such as burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads.
At Alaro, the Ballesteros decided to “highlight classic beer styles.” While beer doesn’t always have a culture that connects with dining, the couple developed cohesive pairings between beer and food.
Alaro opened in June 2018 and became a favorite for its causal atmosphere, excellent food and award-winning beers.
Jan 28, 2025
You wouldn’t expect fantastic pizza at an old hardware store on the banks of the Sacramento River, but Matt Brown knows better. His restaurant, Husick’s by Forester, is a gem.
Just a few minutes off Interstate 5, Husick’s is from another place and time. Opened more than a century ago as a hardware store in Clarksburg, the site is now a dining destination for wine tasters, boaters and Delta locals. In easy traffic, it’s about a 20-minute drive from Downtown.
Chef Brown worked in several local kitchens, and each stop brought more praise than the last. He cooked at Hook & Ladder, created the food program at The Jungle Bird tiki lounge and drove the exceptional kitchen at The Golden Bear. Plaudits followed.
Jan 28, 2025
Revolution Winery & Kitchen embodies vine to bottle and farm to fork. The menu celebrates local fruit, breads, produce and wine grapes, all from within 100 miles of Midtown.
Chef-owner Gina Genshlea was raised on a sustainable farm in South Sacramento. She says her family “grew everything” they ate.
Childhood was filled with chestnuts, pecans, walnuts, olives, stone fruits, chickens, cows, pigs, goats, house-cured prosciutto and coppa, plus grapes and wine production.
With winemakers Colleen Clothier and Samuel Wharton, Revolution pulls the best local wine grapes. The crew crushes, ferments, ages and sells its wines in the heart of town.
The company uses some off-site storage, but most wine is produced and bottled on S Street.
Dec 28, 2024
In golden light surrounded by fields of plump rice and recently harvested corn, beans and wheat, wildlife pecks on dinner.
This is Pleasant Grove Farms, 3,000 acres in the wetlands north of Sacramento. Owners Ed and Wynette Sills drive me around the parcels that comprise the farm.
The test of a healthy farm is the presence of wildlife. While this might seem counterintuitive, farmers who practice organic and regenerative agriculture try to create spaces where crops and other living beings thrive in harmony.
Dec 28, 2024
Two Midtown breakfast spots span the spectrum from old-fashioned to new-fangled. Both create delightful mornings with excellent cooking.
