{"id":346499,"date":"2026-06-04T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:11","slug":"visit-sacramento-names-chefs-for-2026-tower-bridge-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346499\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Sacramento names chefs for 2026 Tower Bridge Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento\u2019s tourism bureau announced on Wednesday the lineup of chefs who will headline 2026\u2019s Tower Bridge Dinner, a yearly event which highlights the region\u2019s farm-to-fork culture.<\/p>\n

At Visit Sacramento\u2019s annual \u201cState of Tourism\u201d luncheon, the organization presented this year\u2019s featured chefs: Kate Sutherland of Waterboy<\/a>, Giancarlo Zapata of Chicha Peruvian Kitchen<\/a>, Francisco Rivera of Hawks Public House<\/a>, and Joe Pruner of Bocce, which is slated to open later this summer in East Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, the dinner has taken place on the circa-1935 Tower Bridge connecting Sacramento and West Sacramento. The bridge, closed to traffic for a night, is transformed into an elaborate outdoor gala dining space, where chefs serve cuisine highlighting local agricultural products. According to Kari Miskit, chief communications and marketing officer for Visit Sacramento, proceeds from ticket sales will be used to fund farm-to-fork events such as Terra Madre Americas and scholarships for the children of migrant farmworkers. Ticket prices and availability will be announced later in the summer, she added.<\/p>\n

\"Guests Guests at the Tower Bridge Dinner try an appetizer made from compressed watermelon on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Tower Bridge Dinner, said Pruner, will occur on September 6. He said the chefs began planning months ago, \u201cEver since we got the invitation we\u2019ve been working really closely together to make sure the menu\u2019s cohesive [and] to highlight what we do best.\u201d Chefs, like Zapata, often bring their specialties to the table. Zapata said he plans to open the menu with something strongly Peruvian, such as ceviche. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s very important to try to use Peruvian techniques in this menu.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is one of several yearly experiences held by Visit Sacramento to promote the region\u2019s agriculture and farm-to-fork lifestyle. Others include Legends of Wine<\/a>, a tasting on the steps of the California State Capitol featuring regional vintages, as well as the Grand Tasting, where local restaurants serve up small bites of their best offerings.<\/p>\n

While the Tower Bridge Dinner, Legends of Wine, and the Grand Tasting are ticketed events, in past years Visit Sacramento has hosted the Farm-to-Fork Festival, a street fest with free admission featuring cooking demonstrations, local vendors, and performers. Terra Madre Americas<\/a>, a culinary gathering with roots in Italy, replaced the Farm-to-Fork Festival in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Annika Merrilees is a business reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously spent five years covering business and healthcare for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento\u2019s tourism bureau announced on Wednesday the lineup of chefs who will headline 2026\u2019s Tower Bridge Dinner, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-346499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346499","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=346499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}