The Kitchen is a contemporary Californian restaurant in Sacramento that holds one star in both the MICHELIN Guide California 2025 and the MICHELIN Guide California 2026.[2][1][3]
Randall Selland and Nancy Zimmer founded the restaurant with their children in 1991, and it was among the first in the Sacramento region to build its cooking around farm-to-fork sourcing. More than thirty years on, the open kitchen run by chef Kelly McCown remains the city's most distinctive dining room; guests are encouraged to get up and walk around, even to wander through the kitchen and rub elbows with the cooks.[4][2]
Michelin's inspectors write that after more than thirty years of operation, The Kitchen has upgraded to a grander space, but its raucous party atmosphere is the same as ever: the chef frequently proclaims the menu's caloric impact and nonetheless invites you to ask for seconds. The dishes they name include sweet potato cannelloni with brown butter sabayon and perfectly seared scallops paired with cauliflower, blood orange and lime leaf.[2]
The menu changes monthly and reaches far while highlighting the Central Valley's treasure trove of ingredients; there is counter dining as well as private dining rooms, and tables are typically booked months in advance.[2][5]