New restaurant, bar opens in midtown Sacramento, CA resort

When midtown Sacramento’s Hyatt Home opened Thursday morning, it wasn’t simply the debut of a modern new resort in a 95-year-old constructing.

It was the revealing of the primary restaurant and bar trying into one other metropolis landmark: Sutter’s Fort.

Star Lounge, the resort’s third-story restaurant and bar, friends down from 2719 Okay St. past the colonial partitions of the state historic park throughout the road. There’s historical past inside the brand new enterprise, too.

The Hyatt Home’s constructing first opened in 1928 because the Jap Star Corridor, a Masonic girls’s assembly place. That historical past is included all through developer Roger Hume’s 128-room resort, which makes use of the unique entrance doorways, tables and plaster and a repurposed pulpit because the host’s stand.

It’s by way of the unique home windows, too, that Star Lounge clients will peer down at Sutter’s Fort whereas they nibble on prosciutto-chèvre flatbreads ($16) or butternut squash hummus with pomegranate seeds and candied walnuts ($14).

Chef Graham Forbes, previously the chef de delicacies on the Kimpton Sawyer Resort, will make all the pieces from family-style rib-eye dinners for 2 ($80) to $16 smashburgers with preserved tomato, housemade pickles and Modesto-based Fiscalini Farmstead cheddar.

Superior sommelier Clifford Burr helped curate the wine record, which leans French. Cocktails will differ by the season; a bourbon/lemon/berry protect/ginger beer drink presently pays tribute to recently-deceased The Crimson Rabbit Kitchen & Bar co-founder Matt Nurge.

Meals and beverage director Ryan Seng, the previous head bartender at Grange Restaurant & Bar and founding father of Can Can Cocktails, is especially keen on the $7 joyful hour menu. That value contains choose drinks (seasonal margaritas, a vodka cocktail known as the “Spring Buck”) in addition to bites akin to brief rib tacos or truffle Parmesan fries.

“We’re pushing onerous to do a enjoyable beverage and enjoyable meals program up right here, and we hope that an increasing number of folks come to see it and are available take a look at the house,” Seng mentioned.

Opening hours are 3-10 p.m. every single day besides Friday and Saturday, when Star Lounge will keep open till 11. Lunch and brunch might be supplied down the highway.

This story was initially printed January 12, 2023 7:00 AM.