The Winners Are In

You came, you saw, you voted. The 2012 Best of Folsom winners are now live! See who won Best New Business, and Restaurant of the Year 2012. The big winners this year were Bidwell Street Bistro, who took an armfull of awards! Look for the winner’s awards at businesses soon. If they aren’t displaying it – tell them to support us too!

* Past winners of the Best of Folsom

One Week Left for ‘Best’ Voting

Have you voted yet in this year’s ‘Best of Folsom’? If not, now is your chance, voting is open for one more week. After this week we will have a finalists round for Best Folsom Restaurant, as well as a couple of spinoff categories due to popular demand. Get out and rock the vote!

Fresh & Easy Opens With EPA Award

The new Fresh & Easy store on Blue Ravine opens today, after winning a prestigious EPA award. The Grand Opening celebration lasts for five days.

Free Food at Connections

The Folsom Chamber of Commerce is holding it’s annual business-to-business expo, “Connections”, tomorrow. The event takes place at the Folsom Sports Complex (behind Home Depot) from 10-2 and is always a great way to see what kinds of businesses Folsom has to offer, and score some free food samples to boot. Don’t miss it!

Connections 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PT)
Folsom Sports Complex

Jimboy’s to Re-Open Feb 25th

Though Jimboy’s Tacos is very much open for business during their remodel, they are anxiously awaiting a huge re-opening celebration on February 25th. They are giving away 2 free tacos for every customer that visits the restaurant that day (as well as drawings for lift tickets and movie passes). Most have been curiously watching the remodel as it has been taking shape – it looks like an amusement park-style Mayan temple, inside and out. Though they are putting on the finishing touches this week, it has already started to attract many curious onlookers.

* Discuss the new look in the forums

Local Man Conquers Burrito

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOLSOM – Folsom man Mike Muir fought valiantly and destroyed a burrito of epic proportions. Newly-opened Freebird’s World Burrito’s rumored “Super Monster”, weighing in at 7 pounds, had never been slain in its Folsom store. On January 28, 2012, Muir killed this famed super monster.

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A Year of Burritos… Free!

Freebirds World Burrito is having its Grand Opening at the Palladio at Broadstone on Thursday. To generate some buzz, they are giving out a year’s worth of free burritos to the first 25 customers.  A free preview is going on today as well – free food for anyone that makes a $5 donation to Twin Lakes Food Bank.

Date Night: “Tattoo” & Land Ocean

Date Nights are hard to come by when you have kids, but Mrs. MyFolsom and I got an evening alone and decided to take an opportunity to do a few things we’ve been wanting to do.

A little background here – we have a “40 Before 40″ list of things we want to accomplish in life before we both turn 40. The list ranges from going to Mardi Gras to serving food at a local soup kitchen. Some are hard, some are easy. More on this later.

So we went to the Palladio Theater (awesome theater, by the way – digital projection, stadium seating, first class all the way) to check out The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. We’ve both read the book, so we know how it’s going to go – but weren’t sure how well it would translate in the movies. It was very well done, and perfectly casted. (more…)

New Businesses Sprouting Up

Quite a few new businesses are popping up in Folsom, which must be a good sign for the economy…

* Chicago Fire @ Palladio had its soft launch today and officially opens Monday.
* Lockdown Brewing Company on Sutter Street enjoyed its successful soft launch.
* Chez Daniel (across from City Hall) is rumored to be open for business (dinner only).
* The Threading Place is now open at Palladio.

Palladio Mall has a number of new tenants lined up and ready to get construction started (or finished)… it looks to be a great 2012 for Palladio!

2 New Restaurants Coming

2 new businesses are preparing to open their doors. Zagat-rated chef Daniel Pont (formerly of La Bonne Soup downtown) will open Chez Daniel at the location formerly occupied by Acorn Cafe. It will be dinner service only. Also, a new coffee shop, BJ Cinnamon, will take over Manderes’ original location.