The one, the only - The Fox and Goose!

Sacramento has some tremendous restaurants and the food scene keeps growing and getting bigger and better.

As great a selection there is now, nothing can replace my favorites.

My all time favorite spot in all of Sacramento is The Fox and Goose, 1001 R Street.

The Fox and Goose

When I arrived in Sacramento from England in July, 1981 - Sacramento really was a small town with some limited options that were not chain restaurants. The first day or two I was here, I looked through the papers, bought a Sacramento magazine and went in search of a real neighborhood pub.  I was homesick for my local, The Green Man in Tunstall, Suffolk England (A Tolly Cobbold pub at the time) and just needed a place to make me feel that connection between where I had just lived for four years and this new strange place called The Big Tomato where I had been sent by the USAF.

After going to two so-called pubs (bad bars with electronic dartboards) that were rubbish- I had a stroke of brilliant luck and found The Fox and Goose. It was hard to find that first evening - me not being familiar with Sacramento and the fact that R Street in those days still had railroad tracks on it and it really looked like a worn out warehouse district.

When I did find it, I walked in and it was the most fantastic feeling of a great place that was warm, fun and felt like a pub. I knew I could make it in Sacramento now! In those days, Colin Keenan ran the bar, sang songs with his guitar and cooked too! In time, he helped build up the music calendar and the Fox and Goose became a real night spot and not just a fabulous place for breakfast or lunch.

I salute the great work of Bill and Denise Dalton in their vision of starting the Fox and Goose - but not just starting it anywhere. They had the brilliant vision to see what The Building and R Street offered them and they stuck it out. The R Street Corridor is becomming a great urban place - thanks to the Dalton's and their vision, as well as the vision of the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) and the City of Sacramento.

Now owned and operated by Allyson Dalton - The Fox and Goosee still serves THE best breakfast in Sacramento 7 days a week and has fabulous lunch Monday - Saturday. At night, it is still the very cool, very English pub that I came to call home and proud that it is my local.

Come by for the great pub quiz Tuesday nights and accosutic music most evenings. Buy me a pint and I'll tell you a story...

Cheers to the Daltons and thanks for your contribution in making Sacramento a great, cool City!