The Sacramento area has never seen a restaurant like . Most U.S.
metropolitan regions haven’t. The Northeastern Mexican fine dining restaurant will open Monday in Folsom Pointe shopping center, combining the flavors of owners Patricio Wise and Cinthia Martinez’s youth with and partners Brad Cecchi and Clay Nutting’s elevated approach. Cantina Pedregal will have the small plates, shareable platters and seasonal ingredients of Canon, Cecchi and Nutting’s (Nixtaco, too, has a Michelin Bib Gourmand award).
But the Folsom restaurant’s food will be tied to Monterrey, the Mexican city where Martinez and Wise grew up. “We’re opening a restaurant that should live in the same category in people’s minds as Canon or or or, you know, the more ‘special occasion’ dining options,” Cecchi said. “This just happens to be in the Northeastern Mexican flavor profile.
“We built a beautiful restaurant ...
We’re going to have thoughtful service touches that are making this not (only) part of what people perceive as Mexican cuisine, but what people perceive as the great restaurants of their Sacramento region.” Cecchi and Wise will start Cantina Pedregal’s food program before largely turning the reigns over to chef de cuisine Bucky Bray, an alumnus of Canon and General manager Paolo Ruffi, a native of Sardinia, Italy, previously oversaw operations at late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello’s Napa Valley restaurant . Monterrey was founded by Sephardic Jews working as shep.