It’s no secret that the Capital City is home to a robust array of delicious dining options and the upcoming Sacramento Wine & Dine Week is an excellent opportunity to enjoy an old favorite or try a new spot you’ve been dying to get to. The premise is this: from May 30-June 10 a variety of area restaurants will be participating in this event in which diners can indulge in a three-to-four course meal at a fraction of the cost. And did I mention the meals are paired with samples of regional wines? Sign me up!
Think of it as a tour du jour of hot spots from downtown to midtown and throughout the greater Sacramento area. Participating restaurants include: Biba, The Porch, Firehouse, Michelangelo’s, Frank Fat’s, Paragary’s Bar and Oven, Hawk’s Restaurant, The Press Bistro and Ten 22.
Click here for a full list of participating restaurants and to map out your delicious dining options. To get even more of the inside scoop, including mouth-watering photos of some of the featured meals, visit the event Facebook page.
Dine Downtown: deVere’s Irish Pub
by Liz Conant and Cecily Fuller
For our second SacFoodies Dine Downtown Restaurant Week review, we were invited to deVere’s Irish Pub in Midtown to check out its special menu for this week, which is $30 per person for three courses. Little did we know we were dining at the pub on its weekly Trivia Night, and it was packed with serious pub quiz players! After enjoying our first course outside due to the crowds, we managed to snag a table inside to finish the meal and check out the quiz.
The meal began with a light and crisp Endive Salad with bleu cheese, toasted walnuts and Granny Smith apples, and a cup of the chef’s soup of the day, which was a creamy broccoli bisque that was not hard to finish!
Next up were the entrées: a roasted half chicken served with mashed potatoes, broccolini and carrots, and a braised pork shoulder served with brown buttered potatoes. The chicken was juicy, both potato dishes were delicious (we had no trouble eating every bite of the taters!) and the veggies were the perfect healthy complement to the meal.
If we weren’t stuffed enough by this point, dessert came next, and it did not disappoint. Luckily, we didn’t have to choose between the Flourless Chocolate Cake and Crispy Bread Pudding. The chocolate cake was served with candied walnuts and was deliciously rich and decadent, while the bread pudding was Irish to the core, served with vanilla ice cream and Jameson caramel.
Fun Fact about deVere’s: all of the furniture and decorations in the pub came straight from Ireland – how’s that for authentic? They’ve also recently opened a location in Davis.
For a list of all participating restaurants for Dine Downtown, click here.
deVere’s Irish Pub
1521 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814