The Bay Area’s hottest Detroit-style pizza is coming to greater Sacramento. Here’s where
Local Kitchens will open its third Sacramento-area food hall in Roseville on April 17, the San Francisco-based company announced in a media release Thursday.
Six restaurants will open in one spot at 8680 Sierra College Blvd., Suite 195 in the Renaissance Creek shopping center near the Granite Bay border. Local Kitchens previously opened a Roseville food hall seven miles away in March 2022, and a Davis location in July.
Some of the opening restaurants already sell their food in Roseville and Davis’ existing Local Kitchens: Sushirrito’ sushi burritos, The Melt’s cheeseburgers, falafel from Oren’s Hummus and Nash and Proper’s Nashville-style hot chicken.
But two Bay Area restaurants will use this food hall as their launching pad for the Sacramento area: Rooster & Rice, known for its Thai chicken, and Detroit-style pizza specialists Square Pie Guys.
Rectangular in shape and thick like focaccia, Detroit-style pizza is traditionally topped with Wisconsin brick cheese, a layer of tomato sauce and sometimes toppings such as pepperoni. It ends up with crispy edges, particularly on the four corner pieces.
As Detroit-style pies boomed in the Bay Area over the last few years, Square Pie Guys “became the face of the regional pizza,” the San Francisco Chronicle wrote. No Sacramento-area restaurant currently specializes in this style of pie, though pandemic pop-up Lou’s Pizza had a month-long waitlist when it did so.
Rooster & Rice has a devoted following as well, with 13 Bay Area locations and one in Houston. Founded by veteran restaurateurs Bryan Lew and Tommy Charoen, it grew on the back of its organic khao mun gai, a Thai chicken-and-rice dish healthier than many of Local Kitchens’ heavier options.
Local Kitchens’ new Roseville food hall will host a grand opening from 1-4 p.m. on April 23 with balloon animals, a photo booth and free Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream for the first 300 customers.
Local Kitchens’ area expansion isn’t over yet, either. Food halls are coming to Natomas and Citrus Heights later this year.
Background: Local Kitchens’ third Sacramento-area food hall opens Monday, April 17 near the Granite Bay border in Roseville’s Renaissance Creek shopping center.
What to look for: Detroit-style pizza from Square Pie Guys, Thai chicken from Rooster & Rice, Israeli food from Oren’s Hummus or cheeseburgers from The Melt.
Where: 8680 Sierra College Blvd., Suite 195, Roseville.
Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight, seven days a week.
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