Mason’s Gets a Revamp
Cafeteria 15L trades New American for old-fashioned gravy
By Greg Sabin
 The more tastes change, the more they stay the same. In the past few decades, restaurant trends have gone from French-inspired nouvelle cuisine to Asian |
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Dining on the River
Summer’s here, and it’s about time you got down to the river
By Greg Sabin
 One of the treats of a Sacramento summer is watching the world float by on the Sacramento River. In my mind, there’s no better way to enjoy the river—other than putting on a pair of trunks and jumping in—than grabbing a seat at one of the many restaurants along the riverbank and sipping on a cocktail or tucking |
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Great Gatsby’s
This Arden restaurant serves Sacramento’s most careful burger
By Greg Sabin
 My friends Chris and Mel just wouldn’t let up. They kept extolling the virtues of a strange little restaurant in the Arden area. The place featured hamburgers and diner fare and, said the two, delivered all of it with a sophisticated flair that belied the humble contents of the menu. I trusted their opinions, sure, but just couldn’t see what could be |
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Noshing at Noon
Downtown lunch places hit the spot
By Greg Sabin
The lunch business is a tough racket. Ninety percent of your patrons come in between the hours of noon and 1, hungry, harried and looking for a brief distraction from the workday. A restaurant owner can spend hours prepping, cooking and organizing just to be ready for that lunch rush. Almost every customer is a local, so serve one bad meal and the word spreads like wildfire. The lunch business may be a tough racket, but these three downtown spots have perfected it.
Fog Mountain Cafe - 1000 I Street
Chef Eric Harnish and his crew manage to put out some of |
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Pub Grub
East Sac’s The Corner hits the mark with bar-food favorites
By Greg Sabin
 I play the banjo. Because of this, I feel a rather strong attachment to anything associated with Shakey’s Pizza. Sure, I’m too young to remember the heyday of pizza jazz and mustachioed men with straw boaters sawing away at Dixieland tunes as the aromas of beer and pepperoni wafted over them. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be nostalgic.
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