These 5 Folsom restaurants recently opened. See what these menus have to offer
Toward the end of 2022, five restaurants opened their doors in the Folsom area.
The food runs the gamut from sushi to devilish desserts to breweries.
The Sacramento Bee talked to each location, documenting their hours, prices, features and any events or deals the establishment might offer. Here’s what they said:
Sushi Bar
Sushi Bar opened at 6693 Folsom-Auburn Road as an extension of the Limon É Sal Taqueria and Bar to offer customers Mexican and Japanese cuisine, according to Sushi Bar owner Abel Bustillo.
The sushi bar and the taqueria are connected on the inside and customers can easily access one establishment from the other.
Bustillo said the sushi bar opened on Nov. 25, and its hours are different from the taqueria. While certain days a week, the taqueria starts operating at 8 a.m. to serve breakfast, he said the sushi bar hours maintain 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Sushi Bar offers appetizers you can find at any sushi place and rolls, according to Bustillo. At Sushi Bar, however, he said you will get the same food for a couple of dollars cheaper.
Some of these places, they got a (sushi) roll for $20,” he said. “We got it here for $18.”
On Tuesdays, customers can buy one roll at full price and receive a second roll 50% off.
Bustillo said that in terms of special events, the bar might do something in the future but hasn’t yet because they have “barely started.”
This is the first sushi bar for Bustillo and he said, while there is nothing in the works yet, he is thinking about expanding.
Red Hot Chilli Pepper
Red Hot Chilli Pepper, an Indo-Chinese kitchen, opened its doors to Folsom residents in December.
According to the owner, Snehal Patel, Folsom is one of two corporate locations in the United States, the other being in San Carlos in the Bay Area.
Patel said Red Hot Chilli Pepper has two franchise locations in Fremont and Dallas. Founded in 2001, he said the restaurant was conceptualized and founded in Kolkata, India.
The restaurant is located at 2791 E. Bidwell St. in Suite 100. It is closed on Tuesdays, but open daily for lunch from noon to 2 p.m. and for dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Extended dinners are held on Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m., and extended lunches can be enjoyed Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 3 p.m.
Patel said the top three menu items are the dry cauliflower manchurian, made with cilantro, onions, scallion, soy sauce, ginger and garlic for $15, the hakka noodles priced at $18 and the chilli chicken for $17. He said there is a 10% discount on online orders via the location’s website.
The grand opening for the event will be Thursday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m., according to the owner.
Patel said it also serves beer and wine with innovative sake-based cocktails.
“The restaurant has been designed to provide a pleasant and upscale ambiance,” Patel said via email. “Food is all served fresh and made to order on a flaming wok. Our dishes are very flavorful and we serve a mix of spicy and non-spicy items.”
Erik’s DeliCafé
The Erik’s DeliCafé at 411 Blue Ravine Road, Suite 400 opened on Dec. 1.
Ron Engebretson is one of the partners at the location, and he said the sandwich spot has temporary hours while they work on acquiring staff. It is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Customers can order from a variety of sandwiches, salads and soups. Engebretson said the most popular sandwich is the Pilgrim’s Progress, a turkey and avocado sandwich, priced at $9.49. He also cited the Dub Club, a turkey bacon cheddar for $10.29, and the Raging Bull, with roast beef and pepper jack for $9.79, as popular menu items.
Engebretson said that he would host fundraisers or special deals, but the location’s adolescence prevents it.
“Since we’re just getting rolling here, we haven’t really got into any of that,” Engebretson said. “We’re planning on starting to do that now this month.”
Erik’s DeliCafé has been around for 50 years, according to the establishment’s website, and Engebretson said there are 28 locations total. Two are in the greater Sacramento region while the other 26 are in the Bay Area, he said. Erik’s can also be found in Roseville at 1450 Lead Hill Blvd.
Devil and Angel Desserts
The Palladio shopping center welcomed Devil and Angel Desserts on Dec. 27.
Located at 280 Palladio Parkway, Suite 929, Devil and Angel’s three major menu features are soft serve, mochi doughnuts and other baked goods, and boba refreshers and smoothies, according to Daniel Hwang, president of Devil and Angel Inc.
“We’ve done just boba, but we realize (in) a family or friends, not everyone likes boba,” Hwang said. “They want to go somewhere that they could have ice cream too. So, the ‘devil’ name comes from, ‘Why can’t you mix sweet and salty?’ Two different sweets together – no one’s ever really done that.”
Devil and Angel’s popular items include coffee ice cream in a cup for $5.95, milk tea for $5.50 and mochi doughnuts or croissant waffles each for $3.50.
Hwang said the hours change weekly while the dessert place gets started and customers should refer to Yelp or Google search until February when it knows its “real hours.”
“Our big thing is to be part of the community,” Hwang said. “We’re very intertwined with little league sponsorships to school sponsorships. We just don’t have anything set right now.”
Hwang said the Palladio location is a franchise location that’s also part corporate for “kind of a hybrid” store. It is the 10th open for the business which currently has a store open in Las Vegas and more stores under construction in Texas and Florida.
Mode Brewing
Randy and Tracy Davis opened Mode Brewing on 9110 Greenback Lane in Orangevale post-COVID because during the pandemic they started the Pasta A La Mode food truck that saved them financially.
Randy Davis previously cooked as the executive sous chef at both the Grange Restaurant and Bar on J Street and the Kimpton Sawyer in the Downtown Commons. He said when the Sawyer shut down operations due to COVID, the married couple made a decision.
“COVID saved us because we had plans to do this concept before COVID hit,” Tracy Davis said. “That food truck kept us going through COVID, so we owe a lot to that food truck and we learned a lot.”
Two years prior to opening Mode Brewing, Pasta A La Mode drove around with its chefs making everything from scratch: pizza dough, pasta and paninis. Now in a stationary location, the couple can additionally brew beer on site.
Their menu is seasonal, with popular menu items ranging from $12 to $15.
“We want people to be able to come here once a week, twice a week, not break the bank and be able to get really good, quality high-end food,” Tracy Davis said.
Tracy Davis said they used to host “neighborhood night” on Thursdays in the food truck, and they plan on doing something similar in the spring. They want to bring other food trucks to the location and take advantage of the 2000-square-foot patio out back.
Mode Brewing is open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays. The brewery opened on Nov. 25 and the location is the first for the couple.
This story was originally published January 10, 2023 at 12:29 PM.