Vacanza Romana — El Dorado Hills
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★Minutes from Folsom · Off Highway 50

Roman Italian Dining Minutes from Folsom

A short drive east, and worth every minute of it.

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Let's be clear about where we are: Vacanza Romana is in El Dorado Hills, at 2023 Vine Street in El Dorado Hills Town Center, just off U.S. Highway 50 — about five minutes from Palladio in Folsom. For a Folsom diner, that's barely a detour. Point the car east on 50, take the El Dorado Hills exit, and you're at a chef-driven, family-owned Roman Italian table before you'd have found parking downtown.

Why Folsom Makes the Drive

Five minutes buys you a true scratch kitchen, the four pastas Rome built, and a wine list priced to be opened rather than collected. That's the short version of why the drive pays off.

The pasta is rolled by hand every morning — fresh and extruded, along with the focaccia, sauces, meatballs and fennel sausage, all made in-house. "Nobody's grandmother ever made a second lasagna just in case. We cook the way she did — once, in the morning, in the amount we can do properly."

The menu is Roman at the bones and Californian in the pantry: the farms are a short drive from the dining room, and the card turns when the season does. It's the kind of dinner worth leaving Folsom for, and close enough that you'll do it on a Tuesday.

Handmade pasta twirled on a fork at Vacanza Romana, minutes from Folsom
Pasta rolled by hand each morning.

What You'll Find

The Roman Canon

Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe and Amatriciana, done the way they're done in Rome. Read about Roman cuisine.

Handmade Pasta

Fresh and extruded, rolled by hand each morning. How we make it.

Seasonal Scratch Cooking

California farms, a short drive away. The menu turns with the season. See the card.

Wine Value

A deep Italian and California list, priced to be opened. The wine program.

The Room

Warm, candlelit, unhurried — a dining room you'll want to stay in. Book a table.

Events

Wine dinners, pasta classes and more set the room differently a few nights a year. On the calendar.

The warm, candlelit dining room at Vacanza Romana in El Dorado Hills
The dining room, a short drive east of Folsom.

Getting Here from Folsom

Take U.S. Highway 50 east from Folsom to El Dorado Hills — about five minutes from Palladio, and five to fifteen from most of town. 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.

If you're planning a seasonal visit, we also keep a guide for guests coming from Folsom. And if El Dorado Hills is home, here's more on the restaurant in town.

The Details

Questions

Are you located in Folsom?

No — we're in El Dorado Hills, at 2023 Vine Street in El Dorado Hills Town Center, just off U.S. Highway 50. We're a short drive east of Folsom.

How far is Vacanza Romana from Folsom?

About five minutes from Palladio in Folsom, straight down Highway 50, and five to fifteen minutes from most of Folsom.

Is there parking when I arrive?

Yes. Park in the upper and lower Theater Plaza parking at El Dorado Hills Town Center, steps from the door.

Do I need a reservation?

We recommend booking ahead through Resy, especially on weekends. A handful of bar seats are kept open for walk-ins each evening.

What are your hours?

Dinner only — Sunday through Thursday 4:30 to 8:30 PM, Friday and Saturday 4:30 to 9:30 PM.

Point the car east.

Dinner every night — doors at four-thirty, the kitchen until eight-thirty most evenings, nine-thirty on Fridays and Saturdays. Five minutes from Folsom, and a table waiting at the end of it.

— The Dedier family

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