{"id":250271,"date":"2026-04-03T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:46:13","slug":"east-sacramentos-the-pasty-shack-to-close-after-70-plus-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250271\/","title":{"rendered":"East Sacramento&#8217;s The Pasty Shack to close after 70-plus years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An East Sacramento eatery that has been in business for decades is set to close.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to its Instagram account Thursday, The Pasty Shack on J Street announced it will close for good on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>No exact reason was given for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wasn&#8217;t easy, but we&#8217;re no longer able to sustain the business,&#8221; the eatery stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Pasty Shack has been a neighborhood staple since <a href=\"https:\/\/the-pasty-shack.webnode.page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opening in 1952<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so proud of what we built and truly grateful for the love and support from our community. We&#8217;d love to see you before we close,&#8221; the eatery stated.<\/p>\n<p>As its name suggests, the restaurant specialized in pasties \u2013 a savory hand pie with British roots, typically filled with meat and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Pasties have a long history in California dating back to the Gold Rush, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/huell-howser-archives\/2004\/08\/12\/cornish-christman-californias-gold-120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when Cornish miners brought them into the mines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Sacramento eatery that has been in business for decades is set to close. In a post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[276,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-250271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-east-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}