(UPDATED 7/7/2020) Description of The Atrium and its online mask marketplace offering COVID-19 masks made in Sacramento. What is the Atrium? The Atrium is a nonprofit creative innovation center for sustainability, home to a collaborative community of creatives and entrepreneurs in Sacramento whose focus is doing business for good. Atrium Mask Marketplace Why should Sacramentans […]
Juno’s Kitchen Sourdough Bread
Description and review of Juno’s Kitchen sourdough bread, hand-crafted daily by chef-owner Mark Helms at his East Sacramento restaurant and deli. Juno’s Kitchen is one of my favorite places to source sourdough bread. Who doesn’t love a really good sourdough bread? Mark Helms makes his bread using three simple ingredients: flour, water and salt. He […]
Bliss Home Decor & Gifts
Description and review of Bliss Home Decor & Gifts, a shopping co-op located in Midtown Sacramento. Bliss Home Decor & Gifts held their Grand Opening this past weekend on March 7 – 8. That Sunday I decided to stop by the shopping co-op and check it out. Backstory The Midtown Sacramento location is the second […]
Faria Bakery – Now Open in Oak Park
Description and review of the recently opened Faria Bakery, located on Broadway in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento. Faria Bakery, which you may be familiar with as a purveyor of rustic breads and other goodies at farmers markets around town, opened a retail brick and mortar location in October. I stopped by the new […]
Lava Cap Winery
Description and review of Lava Cap Winery, a family-owned winery located in Placerville, CA and the beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills. During a recent visit to Apple Hill, three friends and I stopped by Lava Cap Winery before heading home to Sacramento. The three others in our party had been there previously, but this was my […]