California Grubbin'

food: 4.5/5 experience: 4.5/5 overall: 4.5/5 You may be familiar with the old Rick's Dessert Diner with the fancy grand bathroom (or whatever you wanna call it). They've expanded to a larger corner shop thanks to its popularity among the dessert crowd (honorable mentions to Ettore's and Tower Cafe ). Rick's is known for their stacks-upon-stacks of layers, cakes. Truly photo-worthy. They also have some smaller desserts. Believe it or not, I've never been here in my life until recently, this past year, when I happened to have an oh-so-glamorous photo shoot staged here. During this shoot we ordered a root beer float, a malt, a slice of cake, and a second malt. Sugar coma in full effect post-shoot. Yes, sometimes models do eat the food in front of them. And after about twenty takes that sugar adds up. Malts: 5/5 They make their malts with Gunther's ice cream. I got mocha almond fudge first. It's good, a basic chocolate shake flavor with little al...

food: 5/5 experience: 5/5 overall: 5/5 Sacramento legacy, baby! If you grew up in Sac, you ate (and eat) here. If you attended Catholic high school in Sac, you probably worked here too. No, you don't come here for the mediocre food (hot dog sandwiches, soda pops, and they finally figured out to serve salads...which they technically are...ick). You sit down in one of those booths because it's what you know. It's in your freaking DNA. Okay the hot dog and cheese dog sandwiches actually are kind of good. In their own funny way. Seriously, who puts hot dogs in a sandwich? With cheese? Oh right, what was I about to say? You come here for the ICE CREAM OH MY GOD IT'S HUGE IT'S TOPPLING OVER AHHHH okay sorry 'bout that. But seriously, these guys (and girls!) are strong-arming those ice cream scoopers and are trained to pack that stuff on as hard and as much as they possibly can without breaking the cone (I assume that requires some sort of training). Be...