Okay, we know it’s only Tuesday but, hey – it’s never too early to start thinking towards the weekend! While making your plans for this upcoming weekend, why not throw in a good cause while you’re at it? The 3rd annual Race for the Ring, benefitting our friends at the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, is coming to Sacramento on Saturday, May 21. The event takes place from 10am-2pm, with a kick-off and an after party at Raley Field.
The race is a text-message-based scavenger hunt on bicycles (or any non-motorized form of transportation) where participants solve clues in hopes of winning amazing prizes such as bicycles and diamond jewelry.
The entire $40 registration fee benefits important programs at the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services and includes t-shirts, entrance into the after party, lunch, a goody bag, a chance at winning amazing prizes as well as a guaranteed day of fun competing with other participants searching the town for clues.
So, grab a friend, a bike and a mobile phone for your chance to win amazing prizes from Rogers Jewelry, Co. – all for a great cause. And remember, you don’t need to be a stellar athlete to win since your ability to solve clues is more important that your speed! For more information or to register, please visit www.raceforthering.com.
Archives for May 2011
Sapporo Grill
As sushi-lovers who are new to Sacramento, my fiancé and I decide to try all the popular sushi joints in town before selecting what will be our “go to” place. Last weekend we stopped by Sapporo Grill , which is between L and K Streets on 16th Street, to check it out.
The scene was lively and fun, perfect for a weekend night. The tables were mostly full of dinners and the area around the bar was packed with people watching the Pacquiao-Mosley fight. The crowd was upscale and while the patrons at the bar were energetic, their volume wasn’t overbearing. We ordered a couple drinks and perused the appetizer selections.
The menu was diverse, including many non-sushi items, like steak, sea bass, and pork chops. While it was tough to pick just a few things off the large menu, we decided to start with an order of Kobe on the Rocks. This distinctive dish comes to the table in two parts. As a heated rock sitting over abed of salt comes out first and is accompanied by a plate of thinly sliced Wagyu Beef. You cook the dish at your table on the hot stone. It was delicious and fun to grill yourself. Word to the wise, the beef cooks fast so just a few seconds on each side it all you need.
Since we were there to sample sushi we split a couple rolls for our main course. We initially were going to go with our standbys, spicy tuna and rainbow, but since the menu was so expansive and distinctive we decided to venture out. We ordered a Dream roll and a Sapporo Roll. (We figure the Saporro roll had to be good since it’s their namesake!)
Both rolls were delicious and very different from one another. The Dream roll had soft shell crab, lobster, daikon sprouts, avocado, salmon, yellowtail, tuna and tobiko, all with a special sauce drizzled on top. It was sweet and flavorful. Our other roll, the namesake, contained unusual ingredients for sushi; sautéed asparagus, lobster and seared filet mignon. We both agreed it was “different”. Delicious in its own right but not what you think of when you think sushi.
Overall, were impressed and would definitely make Sapporo Grill a regular. We had great service, great food and a wonderful time. I’m looking forward to another visit to Sapporo Grill and plan to keep venturing into unique sushi rolls and entrée category next time.
Charity Uncorked from the Paragary Restaurant Group
Last Sunday, May 8, marked the kick-off dinner at Spataro Restaurant and Bar for the Paragary Restaurant Group’s new “Charity Uncorked” program. (Kicking myself for missing the rigatoni pasta with Grandma Liz’s four-hour meat sauce!)
The toast-worthy wining and dining initiative runs through October and is a great way to enjoy that bottle of wine you’ve been saving for a special occasion and help out a local charity.
This gist? Bring your vino to any participating PRG restaurant (the impressive lineup includes Paragary’s Bar & Oven, Cosmo Café, Esquire Grill and Spataro Restaurant and Bar) and the group will donate $10 of your corkage fee to the Sacramento Children’s Home.
And due to unprecedented spending cuts, donations to the Home couldn’t come at a better time as the 142-year old non-profit faces a budget shortfall this year of roughly $750,000.
So from now through October, raise a glass to good wine, great food and a simple but effective way to support a local charity.
How cool is that? Cheers!
Fleishman-Hillard Sacramento is Hiring!
Our food and wine PR team is expanding. What’s it take to be a SacFoodie? Here’s our insider’s list of qualifications:
- Must love food and know how to market it – from writing to styling photo shoots.
- Passion for travel. SacFoodies have been to New Orleans, New York, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, Denver, San Francisco, Boston and Miami in 2011 alone.
- Nutrition know-how is a plus. We discuss Dietary Guidelines and menu labeling laws at our water cooler.
- Our water cooler is actually a wine cooler. We have multiple wine brands in our client portfolio so wine experience is good too.
- Desire to live in Sacramento for a long, long time (turnover is a breakfast term around here, not a reference to employee retention).
- Celebrity chefs and new cookbooks make you swoon but you keep your cool like any good PR pro.
- Willingness to review restaurants and/or cook at home and write a post for the world to see (okay, more like our parents and the thousands of visitors we get each month at SacFoodies.com).
- You Tweet, Facebook and FourSquare. You already passed the “do you read food blogs?” test!
- Intrigued by and experienced with fast-paced agency life.
Click here to read the official job description and apply today if you’re qualified and interested in an exciting career in food and wine PR!
5th Annual Raley Field Brewfest
Come out this Friday to enjoy live music and a variety of handcrafted microbrews from more than 30 Northern California breweries as part of the 5th Annual Raley Field Brewfest .
The May 13 festival benefits the Northern California Brewers Guild with proceeds going directly back to the breweries. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, and VIP tickets are $50. For more information, visit www.raleyfield.com and click on the event calendar.