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Stickie’s latest musings on fish
It is fish cooking season. Whether you are pulling trout out of a lake, stripers out of the American, or chartering a boat to chase big catches like Chinook salmon, a lot of you out there have fish to...
View ArticleOak Park Eats- Grubbin’
Two newish places have popped up on the eastern side of Broadway and I thought both deserved a little notice. The first is Original Poboys at the flat-ironish corner of Broadway and Alhambra. The place...
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Hot City Pizza- Delightfully Shabby
About as appealing as a Saudi Arabian massage parlor To look at it from the street, you’d think it was a front for the Russian Mafia, or a grade D chain out of Minneapolis that some optimistic Korean...
View ArticleRumormill: Lounge on 20 to be German Pub
This is all I know. The space formerly occupied by Lounge on 20 is slated to become a German eatery and bar. Now, I’m sure, with only about 10 seconds of thinking, you could come up with a funny and …...
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Doughbot Turns Its Sugary Ship Around
Great things come in pink boxes Last fall, I was gaga over the prospective opening of Doughbot, a funky, irreverent doughnut dispensary way too close to my home. When it finally opened, I was less than...
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Summertime beer events
I am an action man, always a need to party.The Village People’s Action Man ringtone on the StickiePhone means that Sacramento has several impending collisions with great craft beer. Fasten your...
View ArticleJ.R. Has a New BBQ Pit: It’s the Pits
There’s something sad when an obviously talented pitmaster is undercut by his overwhelming slant towards cheapness. That’s all I could see looking around at the new J.R.’s Texas BBQ restaurant on...
View ArticleBest Thing I Put In My Mouth This Week: Store Bought Ice Cream Edition
So far I’ve only been able to find it at Taylor’s. Strauss Family Creamery Brown Sugar and Banana Ice Cream (with dark chocolate chunks). It’s incredible, delectable, and packaged in a diminutive...
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Sacramento BLT Week 2012
Enjoy local bacon!Sacramento Bacon Fest continues its culinary awesomeness by declaring Sacramento BLT Week to begin on Monday and run July 16-22. All week, hit up The Golden Bear, Bacon & Butter,...
View ArticleBrilliant, Just Brilliant
A few weeks ago I wrote about the space formerly occupied by Lounge on 20 converting to a German pub. Due to the fabulousness of the neighborhood, (Lavender Heights) there were many names suggested by...
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IPA Day is Thursday!
Beautiful local hop vines, courtesy of Rick Sellers (Pacific Brew News) The signature beer of the Western United States, the India Pale Ale (IPA) will be celebrated across the country tomorrow with the...
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Some food trucks just want to watch the world burn
indian street food worth waiting forBy Robert Couse-Baker UPDATE: It has come to my attention that I should probably try harder to not suck at writing. Updates below for clarity. I had never really...
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The Pour House: Insert second pun here
Sporting wood, lots of wood. Opened just weeks ago at the old digs of Whiskey Wild (20th and Q), The Pour House is doing a few things right. The interior of this place is really pretty amazing. It...
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Why do you think we drink so much?
Where do people get these crazy ideas?The Sacramento Bee takes on this question and suggests some interesting theories. I have a feeling our readers my have a stronger opinion or two than the trolls...
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New Ramen Shop Coming to Midtown
Here’s the scoop: my favorite Japanese restaurant in town, Akebono, is opening a ramen shop on 19th and S. They’re taking over the space currently held by Jalisco’s Mexican restaurant. A) I have heard...
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GreenBeet makes top 10 list
GreenBeet has a ticket to the gun show apparently. Congratulations are in order for part-time Sac Rag author, GreenBeet (@AwakeAtTheWhisk), as she made CBS Sacramento’s recent list of 10 Best...
View ArticleBurger Battle Tomorrow
Just in case you thought that ramen, or salumi, or Korean tacos were the next big thing, the simple burger is back to establish its supremacy as America’s (and Sacramento’s) original “big thing.” It’s...
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Doughbot Robbed… err Helped Out By Neighbor
Cookies are a gateway theft. Hide your doughnuts. In a wonderfully light story from last week: on Thursday morning, the proprietor of local awesome doughnut bakery Doughbot came in during the pre-dawn...
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Apple Hill Unpeeled 2012
Another fall has arrived with its soon-to-be normal range of triple-digit temperatures, hearkening us back up to the ‘Hill, Apple Hill that is. Apple Hill is in the first fledgling stages of harvest...
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Fresh food from ‘Farm to Fork’
Congratulations! Sacramento is now America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital!
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