This Mexican-Japanese fine dining restaurant is opening in midtown Sacramento. Here’s where
Omakase Por Favor stood out in Placer County’s dining scene. Now it’s expanding to midtown Sacramento.
Jeana Marie Pecha’s raw bar, inspired by Japanese fine dining as well as Baja California seafood, will debut a second location in the MARRS building at the end of October.
The new Omakase Por Favor will replace Good News Wine Bar at 1050 20th St., Suite 150. Announced Monday on social media, it’ll have a similar focus as the existing Lincoln location: oysters, choice sake and a relatively affordable prix-fixe menu, as well as à la carte options.
“We’re building this horseshoe little oyster bar so that way you can have your oysters shucked tableside,” Pecha said. “I really feel like there’s not a flagship oyster bar in Sacramento, and so we really want to fill that (void), and that’s going to be our main go-to thing.”
Pecha began her career as a teenage McCormick & Schmick’s dishwasher in Roseville before studying at the Culinary Institute of America and winning the Food Network show “Guy’s Grocery Games” in 2016.
She helmed a Spokane raw bar, worked in Napa Valley, New Orleans and Los Angeles restaurants and cooked at a fine dining restaurant in the Mexican state of Colima before returning to Placer County to open Omakase Por Favor at 640 Twelve Bridges Drive, Suite 100 in Lincoln in October 2023.
Omakase Por Favor merges coastal cuisines in dishes such as a tuna tostada with ponzu and serrando chiles, or guajillo-braised barbacoa bowl with soba noodles, pickled vegetables, chili oil and a soft-boiled egg. A seasonal six-course omakase menu runs $75 per person, with add-ons such as Sacramento County caviar on sturgeon skin chicharrones available for an additional fee.
Omakase Por Favor’s second location is about 1,000 feet larger than the Lincoln restaurant, though most of that is in the kitchen, Pecha said. It’ll seat approximately 50 people inside and be open for lunch and dinner.
