Grab-and-go dim sum in the Pocket. An award-winning burger in Curtis Park. Neapolitan-style pizza in Placer County. Afghan, Mediterranean and American dishes between the same brick walls in East Sacramento.
These were the best restaurant meals that I, The Sacramento Bee’s food and drink writer, ate in March 2025.
Pangaea Bier Cafe
Sacramento has few better ways to spend a spring or summer evening than eating at Pangaea Bier Cafe, washing it down with a California craft or Belgian beer, then walking across Third Avenue for a scoop of Gunther’s Ice Cream.
Chef and general manager Scott Macumber joined the Curtis Park beer bar in 2022 following stints at higher-end Grange Restaurant & Bar , Camden Spit & Larder and the since-closed Taylor’s Kitchen , and dusted off COVID-19 cobwebs to reinstate quarterly five-course beer dinners featuring brewers from across California…