Don’t have plans for Friday night yet? Join us at Fairytale Town for the 17th Annual “After Hours” event – a food and wine gala and auction benefiting the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center. With an impressive list of area restaurants exhibiting, including some SacFoodies favorites like Bandera, L Wine Lounge, Tower Café and Aioli Bodega Espanola (one of my favorites!), how can you not be tempted? The event also boasts a nice beverage list to help you wash down the chow, including Bogle Vineyards, Carvahlo Family Wines, Sacramento Brewing Company and De Vere’s Irish Pub, to name just a few.
The Event Committee Chair Allison was kind enough to offer us four tickets to give away to our readers. To enter, please leave a comment below and we will choose two winners at random on Thursday at Noon to each receive a pair of tickets.
A few of us SacFoodies will also be volunteering at the event, so we hope to see you there!
Where:
Fairytale Town in William Land Park
3901 Land Park Drive, Sacramento
When:
Friday, September 18, 2009
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Cost:
$50 admission includes a wine glass and butler plate
Click here to purchase tickets in advance
Tickets will also be available for purchase at the event
All proceeds benefit Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center!
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Support a great local charity!
Visit Panera Bread today for their Discover the New Flavors of Fall event benefiting Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. For any customer that buys a loaf of bread or delicious bagel today, Panera Bread will donate a portion of the day’s proceeds to the food bank. So, be sure to stop by any of the Sacramento locations to enjoy a new treat and help support this great local charity!
Panera Bread
901 Howe Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 568-6400
3571 North Freeway Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95834
(916) 515-2012
3328 El Camino Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95821
(916) 483-6751
2731 Del Paso Road
Sacramento, CA 95835
(916) 928-8295
Pizza Week Continued: Village Bakery
I love that pizza comes in all shapes and sizes: deep dish, thin crust, traditional, gourmet – it’s all good to me. Yet, there is something to be said for the walk-up pizza-by-the-slice counter. One of my favorite local pizzerias is Village Bakery, which serves gourmet pizza slices at a small counter in downtown Davis. They keep it simple with three options: cheese, pepperoni and veggie. Slices are fairly large and cost between $2.25 and $2.75. There are two small tables in the corner of the bakery, but most people take their slices to-go to enjoy at home or on the park benches located outside of the bakery. It’s fun to sit outside on the park benches and watch how many people are in-and-out of this buzzing little pizza counter.
As its name indicates, Village Bakery makes more than just pizza – their bread is to die for! You can pick up a loaf at the 2nd Street (pizza counter) location, the Davis Food Co-Op or Taylor’s Market in Sacramento. I can’t go to the Farmers Market (where they have a stand on Saturdays) without picking up a loaf of the jalapeño cheddar cheese bread – so good!
And it gets better: the owners of Village Bakery just opened a sit-down restaurant on the corner of 4th and G Streets in downtown Davis, called Village Pizza and Grill. The restaurant is newly remodeled, has a large patio and opened in late August serving the famous Village pizzas, as well as an extended menu of salads, burgers and beers on tap. I haven’t gone yet, but if you have, leave a comment let us know what you think!
Village Bakery
814 2nd Street
Davis, Ca
(530) 750-2255
Mon – Sat 11:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sun 11:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Village Pizza and Grill
403 G Street
Davis, Ca
(530) 750-0100
Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. -10 p.m.
Closed Sunday
Tightwad Tuesday: Stick with Fuzio
How great does a Tightwad Tuesday that gets you through the rest of September sound? Well, Fuzio Universal Bistro has enough going on to fill up the whole month!
As we’ve mentioned before, their regular deals are hard to beat with half off any of the 12 Universal Pastas on Wednesdays, and half off a bottle of the featured wine on Thursdays. Happy Hour, which runs from 3 pm-6 pm Monday-Friday, features $3 appetizers, $2 off mussels and clams, $3 draft beers and $1 off the infamous Fuziotini. And if that isn’t enough, Chef Fuzio is handing out even more great promotions this month:
Win a Grill – Join Fuzio in the fight against childhood hunger by purchasing $1 raffle tickets at all locations any time between now and September 24th for your chance to win a brand new BBQ grill. The raffle will be held on September 24th when Fuzio chefs will be outside each restaurant all day BBQing their new fire-grilled pizza dough! 100% of the proceeds from the raffle will be donated to Share Our Strength.
$2 Wine Extravaganza – September is the 5th Annual California Wine Month and Fuzio has named DaVero 365 wine as the month’s feature. Regular price for a glass/bottle is $7.50/$28, but if you become an Exclusive Firecracker Member, you can use the Secret Code to get your first glass for only $2! Visit www.fuzio.com/secret to get more information and become a member.
Fuzio Universal Bistro
828 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 442-2310
139 G Street
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 753-3877
"Soda" or "Pop"?
Are you a “dinner” or “supper” kind of person? How about a “sub” or a “hoagie” lover? A Sac Foodies colleague recently asked us to share our experiences with food regionalisms in an effort to help a friend writing a book on the subject.
Mimi Harrison is an author of books that celebrate words and language. Her latest work-in-progress focuses on regional differences in words and phrases for the same thing. Thinking back to sayings we had heard before, we realized there are probably many more regionalisms out there than we’d imagined. We’ve come up with a few good ones, and now it’s your turn. Let us know what food regionalisms you’ve heard by leaving a comment on this post or on our Facebook page – we will choose one as the winner of a copy of the Sacramento Zagat guide!
Liz – “I had always used the word soda until I moved to Colorado and everyone said pop!”
Cecily – “I’ve heard some East Coast friends of mine refer to ordering a pizza as ‘ordering a pie.’”
Brooke – “I grew up in Colorado with California parents and I called everything a soda or a coke, no matter the brand.”
John – “I grew up with ‘grinders’ in Kansas City. A meatball grinder was a meatball sandwich made by cutting off one end of a long Italian roll, hollowing out the middle, stuffing it with cheese, sauce and meatballs, shoving the end back on, then toasting it briefly. Yummy, melty, hot, good.”