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Gourmet taco truck favored by former Sacramento Kings player to open Auburn cantina
A popular gourmet taco truck, a personal favorite of former Sacramento Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox, is launching its first storefront. Banzito’s Tacos will open a cantina in the heart of old town Auburn at 216 Washington St. Owner Adam Saldaña said the truck’s signature is its cheese curds on top of its gourmet tacos. Saldaña said his love for cooking can be traced back to his mother. She was an “extravagant host,” inviting family over and having a menu posted on the dining room wall. Food was a passion for her, and as Saldaña helped her in the kitchen, it became his passion too. “Anybody that knows me knows I’ve been cooking my whole life,” Saldaña said. “I always cook for friends, barbecues, potlucks...it just stuck with me.” It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that his culinary hobby became a possible career. He began experimenting with flavor combinations, everything from green enchilada tacos to grilled bacon-wrapped jalapenos filled with cream cheese. He later took his dishes to farmers markets, and eventually, outside the Golden 1 Center. Banzito’s Tacos caught the eye of Fox, who played for the Kings from 2017 to 2025. Saldaña would later serve his tacos at
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Dine with the dearly departed at these Sacramento Día de los Muertos dinners
The first two days of November mark Día de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday of remembrance of friends, family and pets who have died. Rather than being somber, festivities can be joyous, even funny, as people recount stories of their loved ones. A few Sacramento-area restaurants are welcoming celebrants with special meals and events for the occasion. Cuvée Club, the pop-up bar concept within the Granite Bay location of Mimosa House at 6861 Douglas Blvd., is hosting A Night to Remember on November 1 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. For $75, you’ll get three cocktails or spiked aguas frescas plus unlimited plain aguas frescas and 13 passed bites. Under-21 guests get in for $20 and receive the same refreshments, minus the alcohol. Cocktails include the eponymous Mimosa de los Muertos, sparkling wine with mango, salty-sweet Chamoy on the inside of the glass and a Tajin rim, and La Catrina, a smoky concoction of mezcal with orange, lime and agave syrup, served with a chile-salt rim. Horchata and cucumber-lime aguas frescas, served in plastic bags in the street cart style, can be spiked with tequila. Guests will be greeted with tostilocos, another street food delicacy, Tostitos with jicama, cucumber, peanuts, sweet
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12 Old-School Italian Restaurants In Sacramento, California, Where Generous Portions Are Part Of The Tradition
One Italian dinner spot near the state capitol sits inside a train station building that dates back to 1909. I love that you can twirl spaghetti where travelers once waited for trains. That is only one corner of this delicious map. Another pizzeria lets you play pinball between slices. A...
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South Sacramento Gets New All-You-Can-Eat Spot With 88 Sushi Rolls
A new all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant has opened its doors in south Sacramento, bringing a sprawling menu of 88 types of hand rolls, specialty rolls and nigiri to the Pacific Plaza shopping center. Sake, a family-owned sushi and Asian fusion restaurant, is now serving diners at 6930 65th St., with adult all-you-can-eat pricing set at $39.99.
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Joe & The Juice Coming to Westfield Galleria in Roseville
Joe & The Juice is heading to Roseville. The Danish juice, coffee, and sandwich chain plans to open a café on the second level of the Nordstrom wing at Westfield Galleria at Roseville, 1151 Galleria Blvd., with the opening expected in summer 2027. The Roseville café will be the...
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Vic's Ice Cream whitewashes mural, causing online backlash in Sacramento neighborhood
Maren Conrad said it was unfortunate a mural she’d painted outside Vic’s Ice Cream in 2021 was painted over Tuesday morning, leaving a blank white wall. But her biggest gripe was a claim that Vic’s made on Instagram that it had attempted to contact her. “I don’t have a single missed phone call, missed voicemail, missed text message, missed email,” Conrad said in a phone interview Wednesday morning. “I mean, I’m not a hard person to get a hold of.” The landmark Land Park ice cream shop – which reopened in January following a change in ownership after the death of longtime owner Craig Rutledge – painted over Conrad’s mural that adorned the outer wall of Brew Bird, a cafe that shares a building with Vic’s. Jason Williams, a hairstylist working across the street Tuesday evening said that the whitewashing happened around 10 a.m. Work that Conrad created across the street as part of the same project appears to have been untouched. But even just the destruction of one mural was enough to cause a stir online. “It took months of planning and thousands of dollars to bring this incredible mural to (Land Park),” wrote Jennifer Madriago-Benton, owner of Artisan
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The best pork on Sacramento's plates comes from this regenerative ranch in Ione
Currently, Magpie Cafe is offering a dish of pork belly with pears, frisee, pickled onions and a sweet-spicy glaze. The fat on the pork belly is rich and unctuous; the meat is tender with a nutty flavor. Not all pork is created equal. How and where the hogs are raised, and what they eat, informs the final food product. This particular hog was raised at PT Ranch in Ione, about an hour southeast of Sacramento in Amador County. Run by Emily and Ned Taylor, PT Ranch is a regenerative ranch that raises pork, lamb, turkey and chicken. “PT Ranch started when my dad bought it when he was in college. That was in the mid ‘50s, and he had all these aspirations of raising bulls. About 15 years ago, we took over the management of PT Ranch, and really wanted to change practices, and that’s when we decided to get into the pastured meat business and follow a regenerative-style farming as best as we could,” Emily Taylor said Regenerative ranching is a land stewardship practice that strives for sustainability through soil restoration, water conservation and biodiversity. The practice relies on five main principles: no soil tilling, no spraying, rotational grazing,
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10 Hidden Dining Gems In Sacramento, California, That Locals Love
One Sacramento kitchen grills its skewers over binchotan charcoal from Japan. Across town, another spot hands you the steak and lets you grill it yourself. I love that kind of surprise. The capital of California keeps tucking odd, delicious ideas into ordinary blocks, like Czech potato pancakes sharing a menu with pizza.
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Café Ami to Replace Mas Taco Bar at Folsom’s Palladio
Café Ami, an all-day neighborhood café from MAC Hospitality Group, is planning to open in early 2027 at 450 Palladio Parkway in Folsom, in the space that was home to Mas Taco Bar. The taco restaurant closed for good on Sunday, Oct. 25, and the 3,500-square-foot space will be fully remodeled before the café opens. No exact opening date has been set.
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West Roseville Tea Cafe Yugen Teahouse Replaces 1973 Gold Exchange Shop
Yugen Teahouse opened in September at 4021 Woodcreek Oaks Blvd. in the Woodcreek Village shopping plaza, replacing the Old Gold Exchange. The cafe serves matcha, boba, milk teas, fruit teas and smoothies daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Yugen says its matcha comes directly from Shizuoka, Japan, according to...
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Oto's Marketplace, Five Others Honored at Sacramento's 8th Burnett Awards Nov. 12
Oto's Marketplace has been slicing sushi-grade fish and stacking bento boxes for Sacramento shoppers for 65 years, and next month the neighborhood grocer joins five other longtime local institutions as honorees at the Sacramento History Alliance's 8th Annual Burnett Awards. The gala is set for Thursday evening, November 12, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the lobby of the Sacramento History Museum on the Old Sacramento waterfront.
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A Sacramento Restaurant’s Latest Inspection Revealed Several Food Safety Issues
[Editor’s note: The report mentioned here is from an inspection conducted on October 26 and may not represent the future health inspection status of the food establishment.]. The Sacramento County Health Department conducted a routine inspection at Desi Curry on October 26. The report listed several violations, including missing paper towels at a handwashing sink, insects in stored lentils, moths in the dry storage room, and a missing food safety manager certificate. The restaurant received a yellow placard following the inspection.
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Better Buzz Coffee Eyes Folsom's Old Carl's Jr. Spot for New Cafe
A coffee chain famous for a vanilla-laced drink it calls the Best Drink Ever is laying the groundwork for a Folsom cafe, with a hiring push now underway for a shop planned at 1016 E. Bidwell St. Better Buzz Coffee Roasters has not opened the location yet, but a general manager job posting suggests the chain is moving ahead with plans to bring its drive-thru and walk-in format to the Sacramento area.
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Mandi House Bringing Yemeni Slow-Roasted Lamb to Roseville
Mandi House, a Yemeni restaurant known for slow-roasted meats, is preparing to open in Roseville, with the team aiming for a mid-December opening, before Christmas. The date isn’t confirmed. Owner and founder Faris Alqabass told What Now Sacramento the team still has several city and county approvals to complete.
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Dead rat in a glue trap, rodent droppings found at this Land Park eatery. What else?
Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to the Land Park eatery after finding a dead rat and rodent droppings in the facility. What do these inspections mean? While a yellow placard signals two or more major violations, these are typically corrected or mitigated during the inspection, according to the Sacramento County Retail Food Inspection Guide . A red placard, however, signals “imminent danger to public health and safety” and suspends an establishment’s health permit until violations are corrected. This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination. In contrast, a green placard means a restaurant passed inspection. The county performs about 14,000 inspections annually and about 97% of establishments pass, spokesman Ken Casparis previously told The Sacramento Bee. Approximately 1% of inspections result in a closure, he said. These were the results of Sacramento County food facility inspections for Thursday, Oct. 8, through Wednesday, Oct. 14. If an inspection listed below needs clarification, business owners can email The Sacramento Bee at servicejournalists@sacbee.com . How to report a business to the health department For readers who would like to report a local restaurant, food truck or café for health violations, you can file a complaint with the