Here are the 15 most popular Sacramento happy hours of May 2015 (based on page views) on Cowtown Eats:

1. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (Last month's rank: 1)
2. Zocalo (Last month's rank: 3)
3. Bento Box (Last month's rank: 2)
4. Chicago Fire (Last month's rank: 6)
5. 33rd St. Bistro (Last month's rank: 5)
6. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse (Last month's rank: 7)
7. Firestone Public House (Last month's rank: 9)
8. Lucca Restaurant (Last month's rank: 4)
9. Chevy's Fresh Mex - On the River (Last month's rank: 10)
10. Burgers & Brew (Last month's rank: 13)
11. Cheesecake Factory (Last month's rank: 11)
12. Paesanos (Last month: Unranked)
13. 3 Fires Lounge (Last month's rank: 14)
14. Alley Katz (Last month's rank: 12)
15. 58 Degrees & Holding (Last month's rank: 15)

Thanks for visiting Cowtown Eats! We had more than 59,000 page views and more than 23,500 unique visitors.

I also want to give a special shout out to Strings Urban Kitchen, Cask & Barrel, Hook and Ladder and ASR Restaurant & Lounge for generously sponsoring Cowtown Eats and keeping the lights on here.

Here are the 15 most popular Sacramento happy hours of April 2015 (based on page views) on Cowtown Eats:

1. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (Last month's rank: 1)
2. Bento Box (Last month's rank: 3)
3. Zocalo (Last month's rank: 2)
4. Lucca Restaurant (Last month's rank: 6)
5. 33rd St. Bistro (Last month's rank: 7)
6. Chicago Fire (Last month's rank: 8)
7. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse (Last month's rank: 4)
8. Fat's Asia Bistro (Last month's rank: 11)
9. Firestone Public House (Last month's rank: 5)
10. Chevy's Fresh Mex - On the River (Last month's rank: 9)
11. Cheesecake Factory (Last month's rank: 14)
12. Alley Katz (Last month's rank: 12)
13. Burgers & Brew (Last month's rank: 10)
14. 3 Fires Lounge (Last month: Unranked)
15. 58 Degrees & Holding (Last month: Unranked)

Thanks for visiting Cowtown Eats! We had more than 70,000 page views and nearly 27,750 unique visitors.

I also want to give a special shout out to Strings Urban Kitchen, Cask & Barrel and ASR Restaurant & Lounge for generously sponsoring Cowtown Eats and keeping the lights on here.

Last week, I ran into Chris Jarosz of Team Broderick passing by Capital Dime (one of their restaurants) and got a few updates from him. First on Piccola Citta, the restaurant replacing the recently-shuttered Trick Pony.

• The restaurant will open in approximately 3 weeks.
• One of the things they learned about the space is that a pizza centric concept didn't make sense logistically. The pizza oven, while great, was small and couldn't produce the volume they needed. At Tuli, it was just a part of the restaurant, not the foundation. In the new restaurant, it will return to being a great feature, but not the central cooking instrument.
• The clientele who dined at Trick Pony was very similar to the clientele that dine at Tuli, meaning they could support a higher price point than a neighborhood pizza joint. In response to that consumer demand, Piccola Citta will be a little more upscale than Trick Pony.

Other non-Piccola Citta updates:

• Team Broderick is in discussions with a Bay Area group to license the Broderick name. (A friend in the restaurant industry explained to me over the weekend that licensing and franchising are very different. Licensing generally means that in exchange for using the name, they pay a percentage sales, profit or whatever the agreed upon metric is. Franchising includes training, support and control, in exchange for payments. You can learn more here.)
• Jarosz also talked about The Patriot, his project at  Milagro Centre, a public market in Carmichael. He says that project is one that he's doing on his own separate from Team Broderick and that the cuisine will include more seafood than at his other restaurants. The food will also reflect his journey through life.

I have a ton of respect for Team Broderick and I look forward to trying their new restaurants.

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VIDEO: Crafting turtles from caramel and chocolate - It’s all things chocolate during Chocolate Week in old Sacramento Monday. On KCRA.

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Here are the 15 most popular Sacramento happy hours of March 2015 on Cowtown Eats:

1. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
2. Zocalo
3. Bento Box
4. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
5. Firestone Public House
6. Lucca Restaurant
7. 33rd St. Bistro
8. Chicago Fire
9. Chevy's Fresh Mex - On the River
10. Burgers & Brew
11. Fat's Asia Bistro
12. Alley Katz
13. Buffalo Wild Wings
14. Cheesecake Factory
15. Capitol Garage

Thanks for visiting Cowtown Eats! We had more than 72,850 page views and nearly 28,850 unique visitors.

I also want to give a special shout out to Strings Urban Kitchen, Cask & Barrel and ASR Restaurant & Lounge for generously sponsoring Cowtown Eats and keeping the lights on here.

Here are the 15 most popular Sacramento happy hours of February 2015 on Cowtown Eats:

1. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
2. Bento Box
3. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
4. Chicago Fire
5. Zocalo
6. Lucca Restaurant
7. Firestone Public House
8. Fat's Asia Bistro
9. 33rd St. Bistro
10. Chevy's Fresh Mex - On the River
11. Cheesecake Factory
12. Buffalo Wild Wings
13. Burgers & Brew
14. Alley Katz
15. Capitol Garage

Thanks for visiting Cowtown Eats! We had more than 62,000 page views and 26,000 unique visitors.

I also want to give a special shout out to Strings Urban Kitchen for generously sponsoring Cowtown Eats and keeping the lights on here.

I'll eat anything Billy Ngo cooks. That's really not hyperbole. I've eaten my way through his menu at Kru, I literally tried everything on the menu at the now-defunct Red Lotus, and I've made some progress on his newest restaurant Pork Belly Grub Shack -- a collaboration with chef Aimal Formoli (of East Sac's Formoli's Bistro). If you've never tried Natomas's best kept secret, here's your chance -- half off.

• $11 for $22 (New Groupon users | existing users) at Pork Belly Grub Shack in Natomas. Offer expires on Sunday.

More Deals:

• $10 for $20 at Bombay Bar & Grill on 21st St. Offer expires today.
• $20 for $54 at Monsoon Cuisine of India at 16th & K streets. Offer expires today.
• $10 for $20 at Dive Bar on K St. Offer expires today.
• $10 for $20 at Kamon Sushi. Offer expires today.
• $7 for $15 at Purgagory Restaurant & Lounge. Offer expires today.
• $10 for $20 at Alley Katz at 20th & O. Offer expires today.
• $10 for $20 at Hokkaido Noodle House on Broadway. Offer expires on Sunday.
• $10 for $20 at Pete's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Natomas. Offer expires today.
• $12 for $20 at Bidwell St. Bistro in Folsom. Offer expires today.

Looking for more deals like this? Check out the Cowtown Eats guide to saving 50 percent at good restaurants.

The Firehouse in Old Sac is one of Sacramento's great restaurants. This is what Sac Bee restaurant critic Blair Anthony Robertson said in an April 2012 review:

The Firehouse Restaurant, stately and refined as it may be, faces more challenges than any other eating establishment in the city. It has to live up to its lofty reputation – and overcome it. It has to be all the things it used to be – while keeping pace with the many wonderful restaurants that have burst onto the scene over the past decade...How is it doing? It's nailing it.

These go on sale once or twice a year, so if you plan on going anytime soon, here's your chance to do it half off. I bought two.

• $25 for $50 at The Firehouse in Old Sac. Offer while supplies last.

• More Deals:
• $7 for $15 at Alley Katz at 20th & O.
• $8 for $16 at Quiznos in Roseville, Lincoln. Offer expires today.
• $12.50 for $25 at Firebird Russian Restaurant. Offer expires on Friday.

Looking for more deals like this? Check out the Cowtown Eats guide to saving 50 percent at good restaurants.