Downtown Sacramento’s Back-To-Work lunch options

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: State employees returning to Downtown Sacramento following Gov. Newsom’s back-to-work order are finding a vastly different universe from the vibrant metro area of 2019, the last time Sacramento food writer Becky Grunewald was on the Podcast. Many longtime lunch and coffee favorites have closed, moved, or offer only limited hours. She joined us to talk about some current lunch options for the Downtown crowd, and other highlights of the local food scene.  Plus, as always, we tell you Who Had the Worst Week in California Politics.

1:18 Rising Star: Annika Bjork

1:48 Experts Expound: Gavin Newsom’s legacy

2:10 Proposition 40

4:45 Becky Grunewald

6:05 Five picks for Abridged

7:05 Drunken Tortilla

8:28 Buddah Bowls and Rolls

9:03 CalPERS Cafeteria

9:36 Capitol Weekly article on Capitol favorites

12:20 Mother (RIP)

13:42 Pizza Supreme Being

15:05 Buffalo Pizza’s breakfast pizza

16:47 Sapha Kafae

18:40 My Sister’s Cafe

21:59 Jimboys

24:58 Sal’s Tacos

26:00 Whitey’s Jolly Kone

26:47 The Sunflower Drive-In

28:45 DoorDash

32:32 Stockton detour: Manny’s California Fresh

34:20 Sacramento burgers

41:12 #WWCA