Biba Caggiano is the proprietress and head chef of Biba Restaurant in Sacramento, California. Sacramento is more known these days as the workplace of Governor Ahhnold than as a culinary center. Actually, Sacramento is not exactly known as a destination spot for dining. What you usually get here is your standard string o'chains - the Olive Gardens and the Buffalo Bars of the world. And Sacramentans are for the most part quite happy with the state of dining here thank you. Fortunately, there is at least one exquisitely good restaurant in Sacramento. Everyone here knows it because Biba is rather famous. She's written seven cookbooks and starred in her own TV show. She's even won a James Beard award.
It is well deserved. I ate there for lunch one day this week. The restaurant was half empty at 12:30 (where the heck was everybody? the food is excellent!). I had the special - halibut and scallops with fresh diced tomatoes poached in parchment. It was delcious and so was their basic green salad, one of the best basic greens salads I have ever eaten anywhere.
The details:
Biba Restaurant
2801 Capitol Avenue
on the corner of 28th and Capitol
(916) 455-2422
If you're lucky you may catch a glimpse of unicycler guy.
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