April risotto with Sacramento River Delta asparagus, the green-and-white spring vegetable from California's largest asparagus growing region. Served with parmesan and lemon.
The Sacramento River Delta was the largest US asparagus growing region from the 1920s through the 1980s, with thousands of acres of asparagus farms across the islands of Walnut Grove, Isleton, Locke and Rio Vista. Stockton claimed the title of Asparagus Capital of the World and held the Stockton Asparagus Festival annually until 2017. The Delta still produces a major California asparagus crop each April and May, and Sacramento's farm-to-fork rooms feature the spring vegetable on every menu during the season. The asparagus risotto at The Kitchen, Localis, Mulvaney's B&L and Camden Spit & Larder has been a defining spring plate of the city's farm-to-fork era since 2012, when Mayor Kevin Johnson declared Sacramento America's Farm to Fork Capital.
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The Kitchen ★ 4.9
land-park · 915 Broadway, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95818
The Kitchen is Sacramento's only Michelin-starred restaurant, a chef's counter format with a six-course tasting menu on Broadway in Land Park.
Mulvaney's B&L ★ 4.6
midtown · 1215 19th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
Patrick Mulvaney's daily-changing California farm-to-fork room on 19th Street in midtown Sacramento, set in an 1893 firehouse with original brick walls and soaring ceilings.
Camden Spit & Larder ★ 4.5
downtown · 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95814
Oliver Ridgeway's London-inspired brasserie on Capitol Mall, Sacramento, is a Michelin Recommended downtown room of spit-roasted meats and charcuterie.