Dining News: Revamped Blackbird to Open on Tuesday
February 20, 2014
The second iteration of Blackbird, now known as Blackbird Kitchen & Beer Gallery, is scheduled to open on Tuesday, Feb. 25, reports Janelle Bitker in Sac News & Review.
The daily dinner menu will remain seafood-focused, but Lampkin is lacing more beer into the food and adding a bar menu to match a more casual, and hopefully lively, off-hours vibe. (There are new wooden community tables in the back, for example.)
“It’s kind of like a no-duh,” Lampkin said. “People would come in asking for fish tacos all night but we wouldn’t sell them after 6 p.m.”
Expect other elevated bar classics, like Lampkin’s “Little Cochina,” a dish of pork braised in porter with avocado mousse, tomatillo pico de gallo, queso fresco and chips on the side. “It’s like nachos, but 100 times better,” she said.
Read the entire story in Sac News & Review.
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