Dad's Kitchen

2968 Freeport Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95818-3855
(916) 443-3237


This place is a gem. Crammed into a tiny strip mall next to Freeport Bakery, you could pass it if you blinked. And when you walk in, it looks kind of like you are picking up your dry cleaning... Little counter, not visible tables. But if you walk pass the bathrooms it opens up to a neat little indoor seating area, tiny bar and backyard patio that makes you feel like you're hanging out at someones house.


That's the great part of this place. The service is good, with some attitude and personality that seems to be missing from a lot of places nowadays. And the food is 100% tasty comfort food on a very extensive menu. And since it's a neighborhood place there are lots of families and kids are welcome.


RobotGoBen & I showed up early with a couple of my coworkers (who don't have nicknames yet). One of them is friends with a couple of folks who work here, so when she ordered the habenero fries, extra hot - they sliced up some habeneros and threw them on top! Now, there are a few of us who love spicy food, but really? After a while if you picked off the chilies, the fry was still flaming hot cause it was touching them. They were smothered in blue cheese and worth the pain.


We were down a couple RosevilleBobs who were in Portland. The Slug family, et al and Hawaii Jarla. But the good doctors decided to bring the whole fam! We were out on the porch which was great, but it did get pretty damn dark after a while, with only twinkle lights and tealights to eat by...didn't really matter. The food was super delish and the have pitchers of PBR for $7, local two rivers cider and Monkey Knife Fight beer (they were out that night).


Overall it was one of those nights where quotes were flying, we got the staff to write in the journal (even got a taped in hot man picture), and it was just some good ole fashion fun.

Journal Tidbits:
"Oh, RobotGoBen can overcome his penis? I'm so proud!" - Coworker 1
"When it gets dark you have to touch it." - Scribby
"I would still take that moustache ride." - Coworker 2
"Neuticles: for the neutered male on the go." - Dr. Beacky


**SIDE BAR**: So days after we were there, the place shut down for a while (don't blame us!), because it had been sold along with the Dad's Sandwich Shop. The sandwich shop was sold to employees, and the kitchen was sold to someone else. It reopened about a week later and seems to be serving the same menu and they did rehire some of the staff, but not all of them. Overall it looks like they are trying to keep it the same, but you know how these things go, so we still mourn the loss of one of the coolest places we went. We will probably go back at some point and wish them well, but we're not holding our breathe. Call us cynical.