Daily Dining News: RIP CPK, Welcome Firestone Public House
July 08, 2011
In my mind, California Pizza Kitchen's always been a bad fit for its space at 16th & L. It doesn't have a happy hour to bring in the after work crowd, it doesn't have easy parking for families, and it seemed a couple dollars too expensive for the area. Well, it seems others agreed with me, and CPK is set to close on Wednesday, July 13, reports Bob Shallit in the Sac Bee.
Changes are coming to downtown Sacramento's Firestone entertainment complex, with California Pizza Kitchen closing next week and being replaced eventually by a sports bar called Firestone Public House.
The new place, featuring pizza, "fun" appetizers and 30 to 40 different kinds of beer, should open in about six months, says Mason Wong, whose family runs the Mix Downtown nightclub in the same complex and is the primary backer of the new bar venture.
Also investing is the de Vere White family, which owns an Irish pub in the same building, at 16th and L streets.
Read the entire story in the Sac Bee.
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