When I write about the Haines family's Bistros, I always do it in glowing terms, since it is my favorite restaurant in the region, and I have frequented both the original location in East Sacramento and the downtown Davis location on many occasions.
Maybe it's the mixture of inventiveness and simplicity that gets me coming back in, the unique mango-cheese-and-chciken Rainer panini (grilled sandwich) and great clam chowder and Caesar salads ...
The Sacramento Valley has had a burgeoning paintball scene for quite some time, most exemplified in the well-known professional team, Rich Telford's Sacramento XSV (which has played on the NPPL circuit for years).
Although there are plenty of fields around here, I've personally visited two, Davis Paintball Center in town and Midway Paintball Extreme on the north side of Vacaville (a 15 minute drive west via Interstate 80 and Midway Road).
Davis ...
From Davis, it's a short drive out to Lake Berryessa. Once at the Lake, there are a number of places to get out and play. One of these places is Cold Canyon. About a half a mile past the dam is an unmarked parking lot. Opposite the parking lot is a trailhead for several trails that can offer beautiful wildflowers, salamanders, birds, and more depending on the time of year. If ...
With the rain and cold, nothing warms you up like a bowl of soup. Those are the days to stop by Pho Bac Hoa Viet near 1st and B Streets (305 First St) and get a bowl of their pho or noodles. The place isn't swanky, but what it is missing in ambience, it makes up with fresh basil and leafy greens. The soup is light but filling although none ...
The Davis Farmer's Market is a lovely place to people watch, pick up produce, listen to music, and sample food from local restaurants. The market is held twice a week, the larger one on Saturday morning, and a smaller one on Wednesday afternoon. Both markets are held in a covered pavillion in Davis Central Park (near the intersection of 3rd and B streets) and the crowds are such that trying ...
The University recently finished building a high end performing arts center, called the Mondavi Center (named after the California Wine mogul Robert Mondavi). The center is visable from the freeway (I-80) near the Highway 113 interchange, and resembles a large, multi-million dollar cardboard box. However, the Center has state of the art acoustics, and regularly books a variety of both elegant and modern musicians. Going ...
There are many gorgeous art deco theatres scattered around the greater Sacramento Area. There are the Tower and the Crest Theaters in Sacramento. Davis also has one of these beautiful old theatres,The Varsity, and last winter it was renovated and reopened as an indie movie hall. Since then it has been showing first run art house films, and this fall they introduced a midnight ...
There is more live music in and around Davis than one would expect for a small city of 60'000 residents. Some venues solely have music, some are bars or cafes that like to host bands. Since Davis is on such a major interstate, it isn't hard for these venues to convince musicians to fill in another show on their way from Olympia ...
Davis is a small town in the middle of California's Central Valley. It's a college town that is in between the state capitol (Sacramento) and San Francisco. The town's history is primarily agricultural, and as such some of the town's attractions include a fistulated cow and cockroach races. However, there are still plenty of things to do, whether you are just passing through or ...
Davis is located on one of the most heavily traveled section of freeway in the entire United States (I-80). And that means the traffic can be terrible driving in from the San Francisco/Bay Area or Sacramento. However, that doesn't mean you have to spend your day slugging it out with the big trucks and SUVs. Davis first came into existence as a town because it was ...
