Catherine Warmerdam

  Diving into a bowl of Japanese ramen is one of life’s great pleasures. Not only does every slurp please the taste buds, but it’s so wholesomely satisfying that you can’t help but feel you’re doing something good fo...

Don’t be misled by the witty name: There is nothing uncultivated about LowBrau Bierhall, the chic yet casual midtown watering hole that has the city’s beer and sausage lovers swooning. The formula is simple enough: deliciously uncomp...

  Tidbit, a modest-looking cafe that opened this past September on a restaurant-rich stretch of Capitol Avenue near 19th Street, is making a small if indelible mark on the midtown dining scene. After all, there aren’t many places wher...

Photography by Roy Wilcox "Basically, we like beer, we brew it, we like all aspects of it, and we just try to have a good time and surround ourselves with people who have the same mindset.” That’s how Carl Beermann (yes, that really is his surname) sums up the beer club he co-founded with...

Charlie Bamforth is the Anheuser-Busch endowed professor of brewing science at UC Davis and author of Beer Is Proof God Loves Us. Here, he speaks with Sacramento magazine about the ever-changing beer culture. YOU WERE BORN AND EDUCATED IN ENGLAN...

Downtown & Vine, the spacious multiwinery tasting room that opened in early December, is one of the latest eat-and-drink destinations to call downtown’s slowly evolving K Street home. The tasting room at 1200 K St. (formerly Blade Barb...

Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Company, the long-anticipated bar and restaurant from Golden Bear owners Jon Modrow and Kimio Bazett, is one of the most original spots to open in midtown in the past few years. While Hook & Ladder shares Golden B...

As a meat eater who happily goes vegetarian a couple of days a week, I’ve never much cared for fake meats. I mean, why eat Tofurky when undisguised veggies are so delicious in their own right? And, boy, when tofu pretends to be bacon or sausag...