Dine Downtown

Every January, indulge in curated three-course meals by the top chefs in Sacramento for only $45.

Celebrate Sacramento’s Culinary Scene

Dine Downtown unites restaurants across the central city during a traditionally slow time for the industry. With pre-fixe, three-course meals for $45, chefs can get creative and you’ll experience fine dining like never before. For nearly two decades, Dine Downtown has generated over six million dollars in sales for participating restaurants and donated tens of thousands to local charities.

Dates

January 10 – 19, 2025

Price

$45 for a 3-course meal with $1 being donated to a local charity. Tax and tip are not included in the $45.

Locations

See the participating restaurants below. Make reservations and check offerings with the restaurant directly.

Explore the Curated Menus

Need help deciding which restaurants to visit? Check out the pre-fixe 3-course meals they are offering for $45 below.
(V): Vegan or Vegetarian Option Available | (GF): Gluten Free Option Available | (DP): Drink Pairing Available

Frog & Slim

Choose between goat cheese croquettes or white anchovy caesar, then pan seared sirloin, linguine vongole, or wagyu lasagna, and finish with either baked zucchini bread or whipped parfait.

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Butcher and Barrel

Choose between smoked oyster green salad or ahi tuna tartare, pernil pork cheeks or pistachio crusted lamb, and fried apple pie or s’mores lava cake.

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The Melting Pot (V) (GF) (DP)

Choose between three different cheese fondues with bread, fruit, and veggies to dip and three different salads. Then cook one of three entrees tableside in a cooking style of your choice.

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Revolution Winery & Kitchen (V) (GF) (DP)

Choose between beet salad or tuscan white bean & kale soup, then a sweet potato harissa bowl or shortrib pasta, and end with espresso chocolate cheesecake, baked brie, or spice cake.

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Tapa the World (DP)

Start with tuscan white bean and kale soup or blood orange and radicchio salad, then choose between fresh fettuccini tossed in garlic herb cream sauce or grilled pork tenderloin, and finish with tiramisu or pistachio gelato.

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The Lock & Key Tapas + Bar

Choose between pumpkin leek soup or caesar salad, then between succulent lamb or garlic pesto gnocchi, then end with either apple empanada or chocolate empanada.

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The 7th Street Standard

Start with a creamy mushroom bisque, then choose between spinach ravioli or chicken and dumplings, and finish the meal with sticky toffee pudding.

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Willow Restaurant & Bar

Choose between bruschetta or roasted beet salad, then bucatini carbonara or crispy French skin chicken breast, and finish with chocolate marquis cake or New York cheesecake.

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Pilothouse Restaurant

Start with a choice of winter panzanella salad or pancetta wrapped prawns, then choose pan roasted harrisa chicken breast, herb crusted cauliflower steak, or braised short rib ravioli, and end with meyer lemon tiramisu or flourless chocolate cake with chocolate ganache.

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Foundation Restaurant & Bar (V) (GF)

Choose between spicy fried green beans, fritto misto, or baby spinach salad to start, penne past & grilled chicken breast, braised beef short ribs, grilled salmon filet, or saffron lemon risotto for your second course, and carrot cake or NY style cheese cake to finish.

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Dawson’s Steakhouse

Choose between duck confit pot pie or tako-taco, then between balsamic tamari braised shortrib or market fish, and end with a choice of chestnut mont blanc or chocolate olive oil marquise.

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Hook and Ladder Manufacturing Company (V) (DP)

Start with amuse bouche, then choose between kabocha squash soup, tempura califlower, or proscuitto de parma, finish with a choice between roasted salmon, cavatelli, or roasted pork loin.

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Maydoon

Choose between mediterranean caesar salad or ash reshteh, then between cornish kabob, baghali polo lamb, or gheymeh, and end with either baklava pop tart or saffron cardamom cake.

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The Firehouse Restaurant (DP)

Start with Arcadian mixed greens, then choose between oven-roasted breast of chicken or pan-seared skuna bay salmon, and finish with either vanilla crème brûlèe or chocolate mousse cake.

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Kodaiko Ramen and Bar (DP)

Inspired by Sapporo, Japan: Start with yakiniku, which is grilled lamb skewer, then try meshi, which is salmon roe rice bowl, and finish with miso ramen.

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Frank Fat’s

Enjoy two appetizer dishes: pot stickers and vegetable spring rolls. Then have honey walnut prawns, Saigon crispy chicken, garlic green beans, cauliflower with beef, and shrimp fried rice. Finish it all up with banana cream pie.

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Capitol Garage (V)

Choose between cheddar cornbread salad or buffalo pinto fritters, Jody’s saltimbocca hash or Venus winter hash, devil’s food cake or apple cinnamon concha.

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The Porch Restaurant and Bar (V)

Start with a choice of fried risotto balls, brisket mac, or winter salad, then have either vegan cajun noodles or BBQ ranch ribs, and finish with triple chocolate cake or vegan beignets.

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Magpie (DP)

Start with artisan romaine with a choice of potato chips and onion dip or bread and hummus, then choose between roasted steelhead or house made pasta with beer batter fried rings or roasted vegetables, and end with chocolate avocado mousse or donut holes with ice cream.

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Hawks Public House

Start with salt roasted beets and wild arugula, then have tomato braised swordfish, and finish the meal with vanilla gelato coppetta.

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Bear & Crown

Start with Neep and Tatties Fritters, then choose between cod corn chowder or beef & guinness stew, then end with either steak frites or cast iron seared salmon.

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Grange

Choose between local chicory salad or angel hair pasta, then between crispy chicken or provencal fish stew, and finish with either crème brulee or chocolate tort.

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Flamingo House

Start with chef oyster or mushroom miso soup, then have a shrimp cocktail or trout tartare, choose adobo pork belly, uni pasta, or kabocha squash gateau for your entree, and end with a mini Ketel One espresso martini or a mini mandarin and cream martini.

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Octopus Peru

Start with smoky bluefin tuna tostada, then try lomo saltado plate, and finish with butter cake.

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La Cosecha by Mayahuel (V)

Choose between having four courses with animal products (pozole, shrimp bruschettas, carne asada platter, and churro with ice cream or flan) or four vegetarian courses (green hominy mushroom pozole, grilled cauliflower ceviche, enchiladas de calabacita, and dessert).

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Tequila Museo Mayahuel (V)

If you’d like your courses to have meat, you’ll start with sopa de poblano with grilled sweet corn, then have cochinita pibil tostadas, choose between salmon al mango, rib eye relleno con tocino al chipotle, or chicken relleno, finish with either pastel de cuatro tres leches or pastel de mango. If you’d like vegetarian courses, start with sopa de zanahoria, then have taquitos de papas, then enchiladas de flor de calabaza con pistachio mole, and end with pastel de chocolate vegano.

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Participating Restaurants

These restaurants are still working on their Dine Downtown menus but will be participating in January.

Dine Downtown

Celebrate Sacramento’s Culinary Scene