Sacramento restaurant scene in golden era

What a year it was in the restaurant business.

Dismal economic indicators brought some places to their knees and forced others to work harder than ever to earn customers’ business.

Still, this remains the Golden Era of eating out in Sacramento. Never has the city been livelier and the caliber of the restaurants higher.

Throughout 2011, I consumed 1,095,000 calories in search of joints I could recommend that do it the right way.

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