Any Suggestions For AL Fresco Dining Or Places To Have Adult Beverages On A Roof Or Patio Setting? (Sacramento: rent)

[Peerage]

Dog Days Of Summer In Sac.... To hot to cook and a great time to enjoy Sac social evenings.

Any suggestions from locals and tourists of places you enjoyed having AL Fresco dinners , adult beverages, on a patio or roof setting?

[NinaN]

I'd love to hear this too. For the fabulous weather we have in the evenings here, there seem to be too few places that take advantage of this. Outdoors, nice view, nice food/wine. Any suggestions?

[wburg]

Lots of patio/sidewalk dining in the central city--almost too many to list. My personal favorite is on board the Delta King, an outside table on the deck on the river side. If you can time it so you're having dinner when the fireworks show after a Rivercats game starts, it's "jewelry store commercial" levels of stereotypically romantic awesome.

But my personal list of killer patios and preferred sidewalk dining spots includes Bows & Arrows, Mulvaney's, Weatherstone, Coffee Garden, OneSpeed, Tuli Bistro, Crest Cafe, Tres Hermanas, Michelangelo's, Shady Lady (or the adjacent Burgers & Brew or Magpie) or the new patio at Fox & Goose.

[Peerage]

Originally Posted by wburg

Lots of patio/sidewalk dining in the central city--almost too many to list. My personal favorite is on board the Delta King, an outside table on the deck on the river side. If you can time it so you're having dinner when the fireworks show after a Rivercats game starts, it's "jewelry store commercial" levels of stereotypically romantic awesome.

But my personal list of killer patios and preferred sidewalk dining spots includes Bows & Arrows, Mulvaney's, Weatherstone, Coffee Garden, OneSpeed, Tuli Bistro, Crest Cafe, Tres Hermanas, Michelangelo's, Shady Lady (or the adjacent Burgers & Brew or Magpie) or the new patio at Fox & Goose.

Thanks, for your personal picks. Ther're so many that I have walked by and being new I'm clueless to which ones are worth the try.

Do you know if there are any roof top options?

I may give Fox & Goose a try this eventing.

[Peerage]

I found a rooftop has anyone been here?

MIX DOWNTOWN : Homepage

[Curmudgeon]

Aioli Bodega Espanola at 1800 L St. Nice patio. Great tapas. Full bar. Good wines.

[wburg]

Mix is okay, the other option is Social (although I think it has a different name now, KBAR or something) at 10th & K Street. Not sure if they remodeled it since the one time I went there. Both are basically bars with bar-snack menus. We definitely don't have enough rooftop dining options in these parts--and no restaurants in upper stories, which is a shame, because you really get a sense of the size of this city when it is viewed from the air. There was once a restaurant called "Top of the Town" in the Elks Building on the 14th floor, today local winery Railbridge Cellars has a tasting room in the same place but it is not generally open to the public (they rent it out for receptions and tastings, though.) Great views of the coastal range and Mount Diablo from one side, great views of the Sierras and the valley from the other.

[Peerage]

Originally Posted by wburg

Mix is okay, the other option is Social (although I think it has a different name now, KBAR or something) at 10th & K Street. Not sure if they remodeled it since the one time I went there. Both are basically bars with bar-snack menus. We definitely don't have enough rooftop dining options in these parts--and no restaurants in upper stories, which is a shame, because you really get a sense of the size of this city when it is viewed from the air. There was once a restaurant called "Top of the Town" in the Elks Building on the 14th floor, today local winery Railbridge Cellars has a tasting room in the same place but it is not generally open to the public (they rent it out for receptions and tastings, though.) Great views of the coastal range and Mount Diablo from one side, great views of the Sierras and the valley from the other.

Top of the Town sounds like a great place for business fuctions. I will look into this.

[wburg]

Top of the Town closed in the 1960s, but Railbridge does make the tasting room available for business functions.

Another very Sacramento option is the basement-level bar: an artifact of our street raising in the 19th century, there are a few bars and restaurants in Old Sacramento that are at the original street level, and you can dine under the sidewalk. At 2nd and I Street there is a big open space where you can walk down to Sacramento's old sidewalk level and dine in the Harvey House or a wine bar--what used to be the basement is now an open-air patio for dining. Vega's is a basement level bar on 2nd Street that features live bands, while the Backdoor Lounge, accessible from the alley off L Street between Front and 2nd, has a magnificent dive-bar atmosphere. Fanny Ann's has four levels, including a basement level. If something more formal appeals, the Firehouse's back patio is at original street level...I think there are one or two other Old Sacramento bars and restaurants in basements but their names escape me at the moment.

And, now that I think of it, next to Fanny Ann's is a Mexican restaurant on the second story of the building at 2nd and K, but I can never remember the name--another upstairs patio option.