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Brown Trout Gallery & Dogwood Diner
CAFE
(
530-235-0754; 5841 Sacramento Ave; mains $10;
11am-8pm Mon, Tue & Fri, 8am-9pm Sat &
Sun; )
This casual, high-ceilinged, brick-walled hangout (formerly the town mercantile) serves
creative, internationally inspired dishes from burgers and salads to pasta and wild-caught
salmon. Weekend breakfasts are a treat with mains like poached eggs and butter beans,
pineapple French toast or peanut-butter-stuffed cinnamon rolls.
Railroad Park Dinner House
CALIFORNIAN
(
530-235-4440; Railroad Park Resort, 100 Railroad Park Rd; mains $15-28;
5-9pm Fri & Sat Apr,
5-9pm Wed-Sun May-Oct)
Set inside a vintage railroad car with views of Castle Crags, this popular restaurant-bar of-
fers trainloads of dining-car ambience and Californian cuisine. Prime rib specials are on
Friday and Saturdays.
YAKs
AMERICAN
(4917 Dunsmuir Ave; mains around $12; 7:30am-7pm Mon-Sat, 7:30am-5pm Sun; )
Hiding under the Hitching Post sign just off I-5, come here to blow your diet. Breakfast
means Cuban peppersteak hash or perhaps home-baked cinnamon roll French toast with
choice of house syrups like Baileys bourbon-butter. Lunch offers a huge range of burgers
(try the one with the house-roasted coffee rub). There's also a take-out counter.
Sengthongs
THAI, VIETNAMESE
(
530-235-4770;
http://sengthongs.com
;
5855 Dunsmuir Ave, Dunsmuir; mains $17-27;
usually
5-8:30pm Thu-Sun)
This funky joint serves up sizzling Thai, Lao and Vietnamese food and books first-rate
jazz, reggae, salsa or blues most nights. Many dishes are simply heaping bowls of noodles,
though the meat dishes - flavored with ginger, scallions and spices - are more complex
and uniformly delicious.
Café Maddalena
EUROPEAN, NORTH AFRICAN
