Food & Wine

Another Sacramento restaurant has shut its doors, adding to the plague of area restaurant failures that have mounted this year. The sudden (though long time coming) closure of Buonarroti Ristorante at Town & Country Village is one more painful reminde...

Coconut Grove 106 J St Sacramento, CA 95814 916-441-4222 Web site: http://www.da-coconutgrove.com/ Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-coconut-grove-sacramento Happy Hour Monday to Friday 3 to 7 p.m. $2.50 Domestic Drafts Bud Light Corrs Light $3 Drafts ...

Elaine Corn just filed a really good piece at zesterdaily.com on what to do if you're lucky enough to be saddled with too many cherry tomatoes. The award-winning cookbook author, public radio reporter and gardener must not live close enough to me, si...

Jim Denny's underwent a change in ownership recently, but that doesn't mean their food's any different. I went there for brunch a couple weekends ago (based off an earlier half off deal) and found their food just as delightful as...

Hey!  Today is my lucky day, I’m going to Utah (yes, lucky) to visit my little cousin!  Last time I was there, she had just had a baby.  I keep thinking SHE is a baby, but I guess she’s not. As you can see, we go way back.  Ha ha.  Shannon is lucky that...

It’s finally fall, my favorite season! Besides beautiful weather and pumpkin flavored everything, that means the mother of all sugar-coated holidays: Halloween. Halloween is all about candy, fun, costumes, and more candy.

Bingo, the Winning Musical / September 30, 2011 - January 8, 2012  The Cosmpolitan Cabaret 1000 K Street at 10th and K    “A fun, cheerful and witty new show, with songs to bring down the house!” - The L.A. Times &nbsp...

Just in time for the fall harvest, residents of our recession-weary region will now be able to use Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) payments at an increasing number of farmers markets in the Sacramento area. With assistance from the Alchemist Communi...

First, the New York Times this past weekend published an infographic in which 20 wine merchants, sommeliers and restaurateurs revealed their best buys in wine to serve at a cocktail party, pour with barbecue, pair with paella and the like. The wines we...

This is one of those things that I don’t tend to talk about, because once it is out there, there is no taking it back, and honestly I would rather not find out that I am actually alone in this.