6 Best Nightlife in Sacramento and the Gold Country, California

Flavorful, colorful, fruity cocktails are the specialty of this bar and restaurant whose equally rich-hued decor and corrugated-metal ceiling intentionally evoke spots throughout Mexico. While sipping sangria, a cerveza, or the house margarita in several flavors, you can nibble on street tacos, posole, elote (corn on a stick), and other small plates.

Blues, rock, and other musicians take to the stage of this restaurant's art deco bar–nightclub. Repair to the patio when you need to cool off.

This restaurant and entertainment complex offers bowling, billiards, karaoke, Giant Jenga, pinball, Skee-Ball, and other diversions. After you've worked up an appetite, dine on updated pub grub and sip well-chosen craft beers, wine, specialty cocktails, or boozeless beverages.

Concrete walls and black-metal beams and railings reinforce the post-industrial mood at this two-level bar, which draws a youngish crowd for craft cocktails, zesty small bites and larger plates, and often live music.

Two native Northern Californians are behind this microbrewery that makes beers, ales, and a dessert stout. Order brews and barbecue at the counter and choose seating indoors or out front in the spacious beer garden–like setting.