A gluten-free Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant has permanently closed after one year in downtown Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Fire & Crisp<\/a> at 1023 K St. has ceased operations at its downtown storefront, according to its Yelp page. The business closed earlier in August, although its exact closure date was unclear.<\/p>\n The spicy fried chicken restaurant took some of its inspiration from fan-fave fast food franchises such as In-N-Out Burger and Raising Cane’s, its owner told<\/a> The Sacramento Bee a year ago.<\/p>\n There was no response to a request for comment on the closure.<\/p>\n Fire & Crisp was owned by entrepreneur Cesar Jimenez, a newcomer to fast food restaurant operations, but not new to owning a business, according to previous reporting by The Bee.<\/p>\n The restaurant, which opened in July 2025, took over the Nash & Proper hot chicken restaurant location in the Crest Theatre building. At the time, a Fire & Crisp social media post talked about what it took to rebuild<\/a> in the former Nash & Proper spot.<\/p>\n Fire & Crisp served chicken sandwiches, wings, chicken tenders and fries, loaded mac and cheese with fried chicken on top, according to its menu. It billed itself as gluten-free, using homemade rice flour instead of wheat for its fried chicken as well as gluten-free buns.<\/p>\n Fire & Crisp is now part of a list of K Street businesses that have closed this year, among them a cluster of businesses in the 700 block, including Tiger Restaurant & Lounge<\/a>, Koja Kitchen<\/a>, Cakes by Jeff<\/a>, Tandoori Pizza<\/a> and Pressed Juicery.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gluten-free Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant has permanently closed after one year in downtown Sacramento. Fire & Crisp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[177842,177841,20628,121,123,122,15684],"class_list":["post-449427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-1023-k-st","tag-crisp","tag-k-street","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-the-sacramento-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449427","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=449427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}