Reviews for The Oak Café in Sacramento, CA
Today's chefs were well versed in the 3 areas: presentation, taste, and originality. Keeping a score sheet adds to the meal... because you and your friends are asking questions about the food. Is this a bay leaf or sage? Would switching out cauliflowerfor the baked potato make the pizza taste better? Would you cook with wild mushrooms? Plan for a leisurely meal. Also save roomfor dessert!! The banana bread pudding with ice cream was a great combo. Read more
Amazing and friendly staff..
10/10 of food that is made by all of the students
Lovely place for fine dining and at a very good price????
Enjoy eating there fine dining experience on budget
Finally tried out The Oak Cafe! Located on the American River College campus, it is the restaurant where students from the... culinary program hone their skills and make dishes that they had been learning. Happened to be here during finals week, so I wasasked to rate each dish on its appearance, taste and give notes. $15 even will get you a three course lunch meal with beverage.What an excellent way to enjoy a fantastic meal while supporting your local community college! The interior is small, but thereare plans to expand in the future. In the L-shaped dining room, natural sunlight spills in on one set of windows at the top.There is even outdoor seating, which would be great during spring/fall. First dish consisted of a pasta w/ clams and whitesauce, tasty, but a little too rich for me. Second was chicken with prosciutto-wrapped asparagus and risotto. Everything wascooked to my liking with the asparagus not being overly cooked (hate limp asparagus) and the risotto having a subtle bite to it.Chicken had a thin herb-crumb coating - tender, not tough or stringy. Dessert was a meringue - like the topping of a lemonmeringue pie - with thin chocolate crisp topping served with a creme anglaise. Pleasantly surprised by this dessert! Themeringue was like eating a soft pillow. I could drink creme anglaise by the gallon and this one was no exception. Parking is $1for the day. Okay so it's $1, people pay tons more for parking if you're at a meter downtown! You may as well check out theJames Kaneko Gallery across the way before or after lunch, when I was there they had an Andy Warhol exhibit going on. Walkingaround, the campus had changed so much since I was here decades ago. Service was attentive and efficient. You can tell theywant to make a good impression. Our server - I forgot her name! - an older woman who you could tell loved her job, made sure Ihad enough water, bread, coffee, you name it. Would I go back? Definitely. Since their menu changes every so o Read more
Yuck.... tastes like the food was made by students. Oh ya it was. NVM won't go here again.