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  • Three Citrus Heights businesses featured in recent ‘Good Day’ TV spots

    Crepes & Burgers, a new restaurant located at 8000 Auburn Blvd. Luke Otterstad, photo credit.
    The new Crepes & Burgers restaurant in Citrus Heights was recently featured on Good Day Sacramento, along with another business. // CH Sentinel

    Three recently opened businesses in Citrus Heights were featured on Good Day Sacramento over the past two weeks, with owners and representatives showing off local food, music, and a look inside a large memory care facility that opened in the city last November.

    Kicking off the month on March 1, Good Day featured a several-minute TV spot inside the new Crepes & Burgers cafe on Auburn Boulevard. Chef’s showed off the large menu for cameras, focusing in on a Nutella dessert crepe and a Chipotle dinner crepe.

    Fitting with the restaurant’s name, burgers were also featured in the short segment, with chef Jose Garcia shown preparing a California Burger and the “Louie Burger” — the cafe’s most popular burger choice for breakfast. The “Louie” features a burger patty with an egg over easy on top and bacon. The cafe is located at 8000 Auburn Blvd.

    On March 6, Good Day followed up with a two-minute segment filmed inside The Courte at Citrus Heights, a memory care community that opened about four months ago on Sunrise Boulevard. The Courte only houses residents who have been diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or another form of memory loss.

    The short TV segment showed off amenities at the facility, which include a spa, movie theater, popcorn machine, and a kitchen station. Good Day’s Wendy Aguilar could be seen in the video interviewing several residents, one of whom said she enjoyed the outside courtyard for reading and another who liked to dance.

    On Tuesday morning, Good Day film crews were back in Citrus Heights to feature the Lafitte Music Center, which opened last summer near the southeastern border of the city. The segment focused on the center’s painting and music night, along with highlighting free “jam sessions” every Tuesday night.

    The music school is owned by Jordane Lafitte, who is also a co-owner of “The Lil’ School,” a preschool and childcare center next door. The music center is located at 8089 Madison Ave., near Fair Oaks Boulevard.

  • New ‘Crepes & Burgers’ cafe to open in Citrus Heights

    Crepes & Burgers, Citrus Heights
    A new crepes and burger cafe is scheduled to open later this year on Auburn Boulevard in Citrus Heights. // CH Sentinel

    A pair of chefs are turning the old Charlie’s Cafe building on Auburn Boulevard into what they describe will be a cafe-style atmosphere with crepes, burgers, beer and more.

    See updated story: Opening date finally set for new Crepes & Burgers restaurant

    Jose Garcia and his business partner, Martin Garcia, met 12 years ago when Jose was a manager at Sacramento’s popular Crepeville restaurant and hired Martin as a cook. Several years later, the two Garcias (no relation) went into business together, taking over an East Sacramento crepe restaurant and naming it “Crepes & Burgers.”

    After a suspicious arson fire burned through their eatery in 2014, the pair say they began searching for a new location. They settled on their future location in Citrus Heights after Charlie’s Cafe moved across the street several years ago, leaving the spot on Auburn Boulevard vacant.

    “We expect it’s going to be good for us,” said 30-year-old Martin. He contrasted his future restaurant to the former American-style food once offered at Charlie’s and said the new Crepes & Burgers cafe will offer “a completely different experience.”

    Located across from the temporary city hall near Grand Oaks Boulevard, Jose said the ample-sized parking lot and future renovations planned for Auburn Boulevard were key features that made the location attractive. Martin hopes the crepes twist will create a distinctive draw unique to the area. Their menu will also feature a wide variety of other foods such as lamb and turkey burgers, seven different salads, beer and wine, a full range of specialty coffee drinks, and a kids menu.

    The 3700-square-foot restaurant is currently undergoing extensive interior demolition work. The Garcias, who are doing most of the work themselves, were seen laboring on the inside earlier this week. Nearly everything is stripped out and all-new kitchen equipment is waiting to be installed.

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    The partners hope to open by late July or early August; they plan to being the hiring process within a month. Martin said the two plan to hire a staff of about 20, with Jose and himself serving as the primary chefs in the kitchen.

    Crepes & Burgers, once open, will tentatively operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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