Allora is a fine-dining restaurant in East Sacramento, Sacramento.
Allora on Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento is a Michelin Recommended modern-Italian room with a Wine Spectator award list and weekly pasta tastings.
Must order: The handmade pasta tasting, Wagyu carpaccio, the Brunello flight
Tip: Dinner only Tuesday to Saturday. The chef's counter takes the wine pairings; book the dining room for date night.
Address: 5215 Folsom Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95819
Brad Cecchi's Canon in East Sacramento earned its sixth Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025, the city's chef-driven small-plates room with seasonal cocktails.
Order: The fried chicken, smashed cucumbers, seasonal small-plate tasting
Tip: Open 7 days a week 17:00 to 21:00. Book a week ahead for prime Friday and Saturday seats.
Brad Cecchi's Canon in East Sacramento earned its sixth Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025, the city's chef-driven small-plates room with seasonal cocktails.
Order: The fried chicken, smashed cucumbers, seasonal small-plate tasting
Tip: Open 7 days a week 17:00 to 21:00. Book a week ahead for prime Friday and Saturday seats.
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.
Order: The full six-course prix fixe with optional wine pairing
Tip: Bookings open 90 days out via Exploretock. Single shows nightly, around 18:00, dietary requests at booking only.
Chris Barnum-Dann's Michelin-starred farm-to-fork room on S Street in midtown Sacramento, seven courses from Capay Valley and the Sacramento Delta.
Order: The chef's tasting menu, with optional Northern California wine pairing
Tip: Closed Sunday to Tuesday. Bookings on Resy open 30 days out. Last seating around 20:15.
Ella is the Selland family's downtown Sacramento fine-dining anchor at 12th and K, a Michelin Recommended room of seafood, steaks and oysters.
Order: Pacific oysters at the bar, seasonal pasta, the steak with bone marrow
Tip: Book via OpenTable. Bar seating walks in. The caviar service is the special-occasion order.
Rick Mahan's Northern Italian and Southern French Capitol Avenue room opened November 1996, Sacramento's long-running farm-to-fork midtown bistro.
Order: Spaghetti alla carbonara, red-wine braised beef short ribs, the steak tartare
Tip: Lunch Tuesday to Friday, dinner Tuesday to Saturday. The bar takes walk-ins.
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.
Order: Whatever Twin Peaks Orchards delivered that morning, plus the daily-changing pasta
Tip: Menu changes every day with the markets. Reservations recommended for the dining room; the courtyard takes walk-ins.
