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 ...
