Pavilions

Aug 15 — Off to the Races — always, always a pleasant time! Down by one but with me forever.

Next to the Loehmann’s Plaza shopping center, The Pavilions is the second best shopping center in the Arden Arcade area of Sacramento.
My favorite places are of course the restaurants! Ruth Chris, Café Bernardo and Piatti’s are some of the best restaurants in the business. Berkley Bar has great bites and an amazing Happy Hour. Insight Coffee is outstanding and has the best mocha I have ever had. Lastly, newcomer Susiecakes holds its own with homemade cupcakes, cookies and cakes.
There are also a few places to shop which don’t involve food which mainly consist of a handful of clothing stores, a paper/​card store, and a jewelry store. As you can tell, most people come here to eat!
Parking is usually very easy with plenty of spots for everyone, unless you come during peak times which are usually lunch and Happy Hour/​Dinner when spots can come as a premium.
The shopping center itself is very nice and well kept with nice brick lining the walkways and buildings and nicely trimmed bushes and no trash or shady characters. I will keep coming back to The Pavilions as long as I’m in the area!

I love shopping at the Pavilions, it’s a beautiful center, with manicured landscapes and clean inviting areas to sit and relax. The parking is good, and it’s an enjoyable space to walk around and window shop. The upscale shops and great eateries are not to be missed. My favorites are Julius Clothing store, SusieCakes Bakery and Williams & Sonoma along with InSight Coffee Roasters. Everything here at the Pavilions is so nice, you really just want to linger here just a little bit longer. The clean & classy environment make shopping and spending time here a wonderful experience. I also like that instead of a large traditional parking lot or street parking, here at the Pavilions the parking is more spread out through the whole center. A stop at the Pavilions is a smart & classy way to spend an afternoon.

«Off To The Races!»
SITREP
[Review of Special Event — 08/​17/​2013]
I got to very much enjoy yesterday evening at Pavilions for their charitable event and fundraiser «OFF TO THE RACES» which, among other things, provides beneficial grants to high schools for their cultural programs.
For a $ 50 entrance fee it was an evening well worth the contribution in terms of tasty food bites, refreshing wines, and fun entertainment, including a celebration of marked high school talents that included a splendid woodwind quintet that greeted us as we entered the event space, and an exceptionally talented & energetic high school performance team of actors, singers & dancers, making one feel like they were in the middle of an episode of GLEE! :D
THE SETUP
Pavilions itself did a really nice job in providing the set-​up and physical infrastructure in their interior courtyard with a stage for presentations, demonstrations, and performances, a series of umbrella covered tables to provide relief from the sun, and a lovely perimeter of tables for their store-​fronts to vend their lovely taste bites and fine drinks.
THE MENU
Among MY many favorite taste bites (this is NOT an all inclusive list of what was available) were delectable treats from:
* From Raley’s Folsom Blue Ravine Chocolate Shop with Fudge & Chocolates
* From Sutter Street Steakhouse, on a skewer a seared Tri-​Tip wrapping an Arugula Cheese center
* From Ruth Chris Steakhouse, a fairly largish plate of Steak & Garlic Mashed Potatoes
* From the Mandarin Restaurant, a scrumptious sample of spicy fried chicken, chow mein & sticky rice
* From Café Bernardo, a yummy Thai noodle salad! (I probably ate the MOST of this one item if getting five separate little plates of this is any indication!)
* A tasty crab (& non-​crab version) gespacho
* Wonder shredded meat sliders
Among the many refreshing wines & drinks
* From Sean Minor Wines, a fruity Pinot Noir
* From Heringer Estate wines, a delicious Zinfandel (I THINK!)
* From Cielo Estate Winery, their Cabernet Franc is outstanding and my decidedly favorite wine of the event!
* And it ain’t fancy, but whoever was responsible for the bottled water and iced cans of Diet Coke, MUCH APPRECIATION from me — at certain point I reach a satiation point on wine and prefer to switch to the more «gulpable» beverages.
KUDOS
Big kudos to Pavilions for putting on such a fun, scrumptious & entertaining event. Also a big thanks to all the vendors — both named and unnamed — who participated and deserve credit for stepping up to the plate in participating for this worthy endeavor.
SHOUTOUT
A big thank you to Alex L., Community Manager of Sacramento Unilocal for making this event possible for me and my esteemed Unilocal-​colleague Dominique M. to attend and enjoy and to represent Unilocal.
THE LOWDOWN
I continue to look forward to actively participating in future Pavilion charitable events!