Similar to a pub crawl but with restaurants, food aficionado group Dishcrawl offers “foodies” a chance to visit new restaurants and meet the owners and chefs. The attendees sign up for the event online and the meeting place is revealed after payment is received. The Sacramento chapter of Dishcrawl – which aims to bring people together over food, according to founder Tracy Lee – will host its next restaurant crawl at 7 p.m. Jan. 25. This will be the sixth Dishcrawl event in Sacramento, and according to the group’s Twitter feed, it will explore J and K streets. The actual restaurants will be released to ticket holders 48 hours before the event. Previous Dishcrawls in Sacramento have taken

Over 500 people showed up - most in red heels, sandals or Converse - to the sold-out 2nd Annual Red Shoe Crawl on Sunday, June 26. The event was a stroll through midtown and downtown, where participants sampled complimentary food and drink from 16 different restaurants. Ticket proceeds directly supported children and families served by the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House and Camp Ronald McDonald at Eagle Lake. Event participants were asked to wear red shoes in celebration of Ronald McDonald and the non-profit organizations with which the mascot’s name is associated. “It’s fun to see all the people running around in their red shoes,” said Stephanie Spees, Community Relations Coordinator

Saturday morning I contemplated whether or not I should eat breakfast. My stomach was inexperienced with grub crawls, the Eat Your Art Out Crawl would be my very first. I settled on eating something small. Luckily I lived close enough to walk to the captain meeting place and by the time I had gathered my team's bags and badges, my stomach was growling. Of the 18 restaurants and dining establishments in the Crawl, I had eaten at all of them but five.  My team, Team Snuffleupagus, started at Brew It Up! where a fruit platter and blue cheese kettle chips awaited. This was a good warmup for the digestive system, not too heavy, and easy to eat. Lucca was one of the restaurants I hadn't tri