It's been rumored for more than a year that the owners of the well-reviewed Hawks Restauarant in Granite Bay (which the Sac Bee called the region's "best restaurant") were looking for a location closer to Sacramento to open a second restaurant. It looks like they've found their spot, reports Jeff Pelline in Sierra FoodWineArt Magazine.

Now a long-simmering deal has been sealed for Hawks to open a second restaurant in east Sacramento, to go along with the one in Granite Bay, Owner Molly Hawks told us.

The second restaurant — tentatively named Hawks Public House & Provisions or something similar — could open as early as late summer.

The restaurant will be located near the intersection of Alhambra and Stockton boulevards (in a new, freestanding building with lots of parking adjacent to the Sutter Medical Plaza). There’s also outdoor seating.

Hawks had been scouting out the location, but now it’s a “done deal,” Molly said. The exterior is built, and now the rest of the work is underway — with several months of construction still left.

Read the entire story on SierraCulture.com.

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