Sacramento reveals its Tower Bridge Dinner menu

Comstock’s Editor Judy Farah shares updates from the Tower Bridge Dinner and other signature events in the Sacramento region.

One of the best events I get invited to each year by Visit Sacramento is the Tower Bridge Dinner menu tasting, which took place August 6 this year. I’ve been lucky to attend the dinner twice as a guest, and it’s as fabulous as you might imagine. To think that the organizers convinced the cities of West Sacramento and Sacramento in 2013 to shut down the golden Tower Bridge, which 75,000 cars drive over daily, for one evening so 800 well-dressed people can dine! It is quite unusual — and fabulous.

This year’s dinner, which will be held Sunday, Sept. 6, has an international flair, courtesy of the four chefs who created the menu.

If there’s another bridge almost as iconic as the Tower Bridge in the Sacramento region, it is Folsom’s Rainbow Bridge, and it will be hosting a dinner of its own in honor of the City of Folsom’s 80th anniversary. Yes, that’s confusing, because Folsom has been around since California’s Gold Rush in the 1850s, but it didn’t incorporate until 1946. The multi-course dinner will be held Sept. 13 and concludes with a 10-minute drone show with 250 drones to note America’s 250th birthday as the finale.

More on that and other Sacramento-area happenings in my latest update.

– Judy Farah, editor

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