opened about 1 month ago
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Fabulist Pizza is a counter-service pizzeria and bread shop founded by husband-and-wife team Andrew Tescher and Stacey Johnson, who previously operated the pop-up concept Side Hustle Pizza. The menu features three styles of Roman-inspired pizza which include an airy sheet pan pala romana, a thin-and-crisp round nonno, and the Detroit-influenced "Sactown Square" alongside Italian breads, sandwiches, salads, and cookies.
-Sacramento Bee
OPENING TBD
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The Breakfast Club at Midtown is a restaurant offering a breakfast-and-brunch-oriented menu featuring items like omelets, egg-topped skillets, pancakes, French toast, breakfast sandwiches, and fresh juices or coffee drinks.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 1 month ago
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Bilao is a casual Filipino restaurant from the culinary duo behind the Baboy Boys food trailer, serving sisig, bacon adobo jerky, and Cebu-style lechon.
-Sacramento Bee
opened about 2 months ago
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The Bier Projekt is a chef-driven beer cellar rooted in monastic brewing tradition, focusing on Trappist and abbey ale imports paired with natural wines and a food menu featuring items such as duck confit grilled cheese, European-style sausages, and raclette.
opened about 2 months ago
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Winglit is a South Sacramento chicken concept with a focused menu of hand-tossed wings, a chimichurri fried chicken sandwich, and crinkle-cut fries.
opened about 2 months ago
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Local Flights Brews & Bites is a Sacramento-owned restaurant and café concept combining a full bar and sit-down dining room with a separate coffee shop and grab-and-go options. The menu, guided by Sacramento chef Adam Pechal, draws on locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and spans upscale comfort food, signature pastas, and small plates rooted in the region's farm-to-fork tradition.
-Sacramento Business Journal
OPENING 2026
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Bocce Ristorante is a neighborhood Italian concept from Chef Joe Pruner, built around a California-inflected menu of fresh and extruded pastas, pizzas, sandwiches, and seasonal vegetable sides, with prepared takeaway dishes and cook-at-home options also available.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 2 months ago
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The 1920s Bookstore is a speakeasy-style venue with a cocktail lounge, featuring floor-to-ceiling shelves, Prohibition-era inspired cocktails, and live music. The cocktail program draws from fifty years of American mixology, spanning Prohibition-era techniques through mid-century and 1970s-style refinement.
OPENING TBD
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Teriyaki Madness is a fast-casual Asian restaurant concept featuring a Seattle Teriyaki menu and offers made-to-order Teriyaki dishes prepared with natural ingredients.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 3 months ago
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Tiny Lot Pizza and Grill is a Sacramento-area pizzeria specializing in hand-tossed New York-style pizza, smashburgers, and house-made tiramisu, with a menu that adheres to 100% halal preparation standards. The kitchen employs a 2-to-3-day dough fermentation process, and all sauces are made in-house.
opened about 2 months ago
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Balance Beerworks is a Sacramento-based craft brewery founded by a team of craft beer industry veterans, with a tap lineup spanning lagers, IPAs, seasonal brews, and experimental styles.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 2 months ago
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Pistachio & Cream is an Italian-style gelato and dessert café centering its menu on small-batch gelato made with DOP-certified Bronte pistachio from Sicily, alongside Belgian waffle bowls, sorbets, pastries, tiramisu cakes, and a specialty coffee program featuring a signature pistachio latte and affogato.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 3 months ago
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Steele House Coffee is a family-owned independent coffeehouse specializing in freshly roasted, low-acid coffee with beans sourced from farms around the world. The menu features barista-original espresso drinks alongside traditional offerings, with specialty lattes such as French Toast, Banana Cream, and Honey Bee all complemented by breakfast food options.
OPENING TBD
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Paris Baguette is a South Korean chain of bakery-cafes serving French inspired pastries, sandwiches, coffee, tea and more.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 3 months ago
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The Golden Pineapple is a dual-concept takeout operation from Kupros Craft House owners Keegan Currey and Steve Tokuhama, with one side of the space dedicated to a California-style deli and the other to a Hawaiian concept featuring plate lunches, ramen, and poke. The Hawaiian menu draws on family recipes including kalua pork and cabbage, chicken katsu, garlic mahi-mahi, and garlic shrimp, served alongside deli sandwiches where the two concepts intersect.
opened about 3 months ago
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Vallarta Prime is a contemporary Mexican restaurant specializing in premium seafood, grilled meats, and traditional Mexican cuisine inspired by the coastal flavors of Puerto Vallarta.
opened about 3 months ago
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Ume Tea is a boba tea chain founded in the Bay Area in 2019. Menu offerings include milk tea, fruit tea, fresh tea, coffee, bento boxes and snacks.
opened about 3 months ago
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Oak Park Bardega is a neighborhood deli and cocktail bar concept from the team behind Darling Aviary in Downtown Sacramento and The Flamingo House in Midtown. The menu centers on sandwiches made with premium meats, fresh-baked bread, and crisp ingredients, complemented by a bar program featuring beer, wine, and cocktails.
-Sacramento Business Journal
opened about 3 months ago
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Day Tripper is a cocktail bar from Irish Hospitality Group and is built around agave and cane spirits sourced from Latin America and the Caribbean, with a concept intentionally broader than any single region or tiki tradition. The menu spans elevated vacation-style drinks including caipirinhas, pisco sours, and frozen slushies with 33 cocktails each tied to a producer-owned spirit with a cultural story behind it.
-Sacramento Business Journal
OPENING SUMMER 2026
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Bayt Al Mocha is a Dearborn, Michigan-based coffee franchise whose name and menu are rooted in the city of Mocha, Yemen. The menu spans both modern and traditional offerings, including frappes, smoothies, and shaken espresso alongside classic Yemeni drinks like Qishr (spiced coffee husks) and Mufawar (cardamom coffee), with Yemeni pastries such as honey-filled Sabaya and familiar options like croissants and cheesecake rounding out the food menu.
-Sacramento Business Journal