Vacanza Romana — El Dorado Hills
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★30 Minutes East · Off Highway 50

Roman Italian Cooking in the Sacramento Region

A destination worth the drive out of the city.

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Vacanza Romana isn't a downtown Sacramento restaurant — it's a reason to leave downtown for the evening. We're in El Dorado Hills, at 2023 Vine Street, about thirty minutes east of the city on U.S. Highway 50: a chef-driven, family-owned Roman Italian kitchen where the pasta is rolled by hand each morning and the farms that fill the pantry are a short drive from the dining room. For the Sacramento region, it's the kind of table you plan an evening around.

Roman at the Bones

Rome wrote the recipes, and we make them the way they're made there — not the way they got rewritten on the boat over.

The card is anchored by the pastas the city built: Carbonara — rigatoni, guanciale, egg, pecorino romano, parmigiano; Cacio e Pepe — tonnarelli, two pecorini, tellicherry pepper, white truffle butter; and Amatriciana — spaghetti, guanciale, San Marzano, pecorino romano. Gricia belongs to the Roman canon as well, and rotates onto the menu with the season.

Around them sit Saltimbocca alla Romana, Carciofi alla Giudia, Supplì al Telefono and Ossobuco, alongside a deeper bench of handmade pastas — Tagliolini alle Vongole, Agnolotti di Brasato, Oxtail Ragù and more. Read about Roman cuisine.

Pecorino grated over a plate of Roman pasta at Vacanza Romana
Pecorino over the pasta, the Roman way.

Californian in the Pantry

Handmade Pasta

Fresh and extruded, rolled by hand each morning in a true scratch kitchen. How we make it.

Seasonal Ingredients

The farms are a short drive away; the menu changes when the season does. See the card.

A Serious Wine List

Deep Italian and California bottles, priced to be opened. The wine program.

The Carbonara

No cream, no shortcuts — done the way it's done in Rome. More on our carbonara.

We opened in the spring of 2023 with a simple idea: feed people like a chef and treat them like neighbors. The fingerprints are Californian — the farms nearby, the dust on a bottle of Paso Robles cab, the low evening light that nobody's in a hurry to leave.

The warm dining room at Vacanza Romana, a short drive east of Sacramento
The dining room, thirty minutes east of the city.

Directions from Sacramento

Take U.S. Highway 50 east from downtown Sacramento — about thirty minutes to El Dorado Hills. We're at the back of El Dorado Hills Town Center, below the movie theater.

Park anywhere in the upper or lower Theater Plaza lots and walk down. The address is 2023 Vine Street, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762; reach the dining room at (916) 673-9620. Doors at four-thirty; dinner only.

Coming from closer in? Here's the drive from Folsom, and more on the restaurant in El Dorado Hills.

The Details

Questions

Are you in Sacramento?

No — we're in El Dorado Hills, at 2023 Vine Street, about thirty minutes east of downtown Sacramento on U.S. Highway 50. Think of us as a short drive out of the city, not a downtown spot.

How do I get there from Sacramento?

Take U.S. Highway 50 east from downtown Sacramento for about thirty minutes to El Dorado Hills. We're at the back of El Dorado Hills Town Center, below the movie theater, with parking steps away.

What makes it authentically Roman?

The bones are Roman — the four pastas the city built, made the way they're made there. Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe and Amatriciana, plus Saltimbocca alla Romana, Carciofi alla Giudia and Supplì al Telefono. The pantry is Californian. More on Roman cuisine.

Is the pasta made in-house?

Yes. We're a true scratch kitchen — fresh and extruded pasta, focaccia, sauces, meatballs and fennel sausage made in-house, with the pasta rolled by hand each morning.

Do you take reservations?

Yes, through Resy. We recommend booking ahead, especially on weekends. A few bar seats are held for walk-ins each evening.

Leave the city for the evening.

Dinner every night — doors at four-thirty, the kitchen until eight-thirty most evenings, nine-thirty on Fridays and Saturdays. Thirty minutes east of Sacramento, and a Roman table waiting at the end of the drive.

— The Dedier family

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