Ronald Henry

Magpie has quickly become one of my go-to spots in Sacramento. It’s the perfect mix of casual charm and fine dining quality. The food always feels thoughtful and fresh - you can tell they care deeply about sourcing local ingredients. I ordered the fried chicken sandwich on my last visit, and it was out of this world: crispy, juicy, and full of flavor, paired with sides that were just as memorable. The staff were friendly and welcoming, and the atmosphere felt relaxed but still polished. It’s the kind of place that works equally well for a casual lunch or a special dinner. Sacramento wouldn’t be the same without Magpie.

Alison M C

Went out for a dinner date without a plan. Showed up 30 mins before closing and asked if they would still serve us. Generously, they said of course. We ordered our food right away to help the kitchen, but the staff didn't rush us at all. A bottle of crémant + 4 small plates was perfect to share. Pork belly with sticky candy sauce and frizee apple salad was the star of the show. First time outside of Asia that I had perfectly-cooked pork belly: the fatty bits were liquid hot and made the meat crisp outside and juicy inside. Veggie tempura was a generous portion of crunchy green onion, chile guero and asparagus. We also had lamb meatballs and one arancine. We moved to the bar and they let us stay pretty late talking over our bottle. Thanks to everyone's gracious attitude it was a lovely evening. Impressed with the service.

Kat Girl

I recently had the pleasure of dining at Magpie in downtown Sac, and I must say, it was an exceptional experience from start to finish! The highlight of my meal was the perfectly cooked chicken. It was tender, juicy, and seasoned to perfection, making every bite a true delight. Accompanied by seasonal vegetables, each ingredient was fresh and vibrant, showcasing the best of what the season has to offer. The combination of flavors was beautifully balanced, creating a dish that was both satisfying and delicious 😋 To complement my meal, I ordered a Lemon Drop beverage, and it did not disappoint! It was incredibly refreshing and added a delightful twist to my dining experience. Overall, my time at Magpie was remarkable. I left feeling completely satisfied and eager to return. Whether you're looking for a casual dinner or a special night out, this restaurant will not disappoint.

+4

David Peabody

There were so many delicious sounding options on the menu. Everyone in our party of five found it difficult to decide. We will definitely be back.

Robert U

A perfect spot for treating yourself to a delicious and fancy meal! It's a bit pricy but for a good reason. I had the Sauteed Jimmy Nardello peppers and the Home Made Pasta with Crispy Pork Belly and was happy with both. The peppers were sweet, had a good sear, and were topped with a flavorful (but not overpowering) garlic sauce. The Pasta had a lot going on, but had a good cohesive flavor. Maybe my one small criticism is that there's too few pork pieces for its flavor to be noticeable. It gets drowned out by the sauce, which is creamy and delicious don't get me wrong, but a little more pork would've been nice. The interior is cozy and has a warm atmosphere! The patio also looks nice but it was a bit too warm in the afternoon. Would love to come back and try their other dishes

T Cahill

Wonderful location on 16th ave in Sacramento. Across from a park and the neighborhood is very lively. The restaurant is adorable with a lovely outdoor seating area. We had crab salad with grapefruit. It was fresh and delicious. The BLT…oh my! So so good. They used sundried tomatoes and a caper/mayonnaise. The bread was delicious. The sandwich…just wow!!! Definitely recommend. We started with their hummus…which was garlicky and delicious and had a custard and the carrot cake cookie for dessert. Everything was really really good. Our waitress was fantastic!! What a wonderful dining experience. We will be back for sure!! Thankyou!!

+4

Christopher mendoza

The chicken for two is fantastic and accompanied but delicious roasted vegetables. The farm salad is also amazing and fresh, and the carrot cake with the heavy cream cheese filling is the way to end a meal.

Cheryl Cardamon

OMG! Must try restaurant 💜. First....the cocktails. Incredibly creative and refreshing. Our table tried their Blueberry Mojito, Elderberry Spritz and a craft IPA - all excellent. Appetizers: Anchovy Toastette, Polpette, homemade chips [chef's kiss] - soooooo good. Dinner: Rigatoni and New York Steaks. Absolutely perfect! Seriously, this was the best dinner out in a while! Magpie's menu had so many unique and truly original ideas-I am very impressed. They should have a Michelin star!!! The entire staff was amazing-you can definitely feel their team spirit and friendly vibe. I can not say enough great things except GET THIS PLACE ON YOUR LIST. Overall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cocktails ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Originality ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Quality ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Staff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Vibe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

+1

Celeste Guerra

My husband and I came here on Saturday and had an amazing experience. We got the cheese board, beer battered onions (which ended up being my fave) and the pork belly. Everything was DELICIOUS!

Kelley T

This is a super cute place with vegan friendly and gluten-free options in Midtown. We had a really nice dinner here and our server, Carmen, was awesome! We shared the Potatoes and Spicy Peppers, which I highly recommend if you aren't afraid of a little spice. I ordered the Hummus Bowl and it was equally delicious, served with seasonal vegetables and local barley. My unbelievably handsome fiance ordered the Steak Frites, and the steak was cooked beautifully. All around a beautiful meal and I can't wait to go back!

+4

Crystal Eidanizadeh

One of my fave brunch places! Magpie has fresh, healthy ingredients. Their selection is great! I have loved every single thing I’ve ever had there. Addicted to their house-made granola. Love their avocado toast. Great view of the park and a fun outdoor patio. A must try if you haven’t been there yet! Just talking about it is making me hungry! Can’t wait for Saturday, think I know where I’m gonna be eating breakfast. Dinners are great too! Their pork tenderloin is melt in your mouth! I typically eat brunch here but I’m sure their dinners are all just as delicious!

+2

Wonderful place for all things Ramen!! We came here Halloween day for a quick lunch and really enjoyed this new restaurant! It was so fun sitting outside and watching everyone walk by in their costumes! Also, you can connect to the free wifi from the park across the steeet, so cool. The Ramen here tasted fresh and the portions were huge, we both had to ask for to-go bowls. The service was good, the options were plentiful. We ordered the vegetable tempura and it was really good and more than we could finish,, then I had the vegetarian Ramen, but after trying my astonishingly creative fiances pork Ramen I wished I had ordered that. Both were good though and we definitely had plenty of leftovers for the next day! We will definitely be returning!

A nice new spot for Ramen! Love how you can order Thai and get Ramen as Thai Orchid is co-located. Price is fair. Good but not my favorite Ramen in town. Portions are good. Flavor was a little bland IMHO. Service was good, fast and friendly. Would eat here again (probably would not get chicken Karage again though - mine was cold and tough). Nice place to eat and people watch outside.

Ordered the seafood ramen here and it was delicous. I loved the egg, mushrooms, and other fixins. The shrimp was decent, tasted great, however slightly rubbery. The ramen noodles were also well made. I enjoyed this quite well. I also order some spam sushi, which was aa to be expected. All in all i has a good experience with this restaurant.

The restaurant is aptly named. It is indeed the 101 of Ramen, beginner’s level. Broth: 3/5 too salty, spices didn’t mesh well. Noodle: 4/5 good firmness but lacking in source. Toppings: 4/5 eggs can be improved. Chasu was good. Spam nigiri: tasty spam, too much rice - 20% less would be a good ratio, too much sauce, overwhelmed all other flavors, go lighter. Restaurant is still new so hope they can improve.

Good food and fair price. Friendly staff and nice environment. The only improvement I would suggest is to make sure the ramen comes out piping hot, especially now that it's cold.

IT USED TO BE. It was once good but now it is not worth it. Ramen broth is SUPER bland (and watery). It used to have more flavor. Cashu pork pieces used to be bigger but now they are way too small. They’re not even complete pieces. Black garlic oil ramen doesn’t have a lot of actual black garlic oil (not like it used to). Spicy level is not spicy at all. It used to be. More often than not the kitchen cooks always get something wrong with the order. But I think the workers are very nice. Perhaps not attentive as they should but nice nevertheless. I don’t know what happened but over the last 1-2 yrs the quality of the ramen has plummeted. It used to be my favorite go to ramen spot. Now I go just to get chashu rice bowl…even though they are now putting less meat in it. Ramen 101 Midtown: Please add more flavor to your broth, go back to larger chashu portions and add more garlic oil to your black garlic oil ramen. Oh and actually make the ramen spicy when it’s ordered spicy. Stop cutting back on portions sizes and quality of your ramen while increasing prices. Go back to the way it used to be please!

Quite often I called and request just simple chili oil or teriyaki sauce on the side even on DoorDash I put it in the instructions and to ask for chopsticks and The staff Misses the instructions about 70% of the time. I tried to request DoorDash’s verify before leaving, but they also are not the best at customer service, which is why I call.

Albert J The Untamed Chef

Very Creative Cuisine though lacking in Flavor 3.5 / 5 Fried Onions were the best thing we ate. Followed by Ice cream sandwich & Fries... The Chicken though very juicy was lacking in Flavor an easy fix for a talented culinary team.

+4

Sorry, this is not the best tasting ramen. Ok it’s not “good” tasting ramen. There is a lot in the bowl don’t get me wrong, the egg was over cooked. It’s cloudy and 49° outside, Christmas season and after walking around waiting for traffic to die down, one thinks “let’s get good Ramen” this is not the place, it’s bland. Staff are efficient, polite, the ramen was hot (for cold weather) but not ok enough for me to come back.

My Boyfriend ordered a to go food and left the restaurant to pick me up. When we came back to pick up the food in the restaurant instead of them asking if we ordered(because me and my boyfriend sit down on the chair) they just stared at us looking as if we are homeless or what. One guy and a girl that looks like asian, I am asian too. They stared at us twice! and with the judging look, mind you we don’t look like we are homeless! I worked as a front desk officer and I never look anyone even if they look sus with judging eyes! It’s so disappointing, why do you need to look at your customers like that. You can simply ask us in the first place if we ordered already right? not looked at us with so much hate or what it’s so annoying. (ps. the veggie tempura is not that good, the batter is too thick)

Something happened to this restaurant. It was one of our favorites, but the ramen presentation, quality, and recipe seem to have deteriorated. The egg was cooked thoroughly (like overboiled), quantity of pork chachu was minuscule, and the garnishes were minimal and haphazardly arranged. WTH, Ramen 101?

First time getting ramen. I purchased the tonkatsu and asked for spicy but it wasn't spicy at all. Actually, there was no spice to it. There was barely any flavor. I personally wouldn't return. Staff was really friendly and greeted me as I walked in. Service was great.

Their food quality has significantly declined since I first started ordering here over a year ago. Will never return.

So I came in said me and my son were going to be dining in and she said I had to order first. I don’t mind that but then the screen asks for a tip. It’s super annoying . I always tip especially when dining with a kid ( if you know you know ) but how much you tip should be based of the service you receive. She told us we can sit anywhere on the right side. . Everyone else dining is on the left. My son got a kids Ramen which came out too hot to eat ( 100% understandable, it’s ramen!) I waited for someone to come by so I can ask for ice but no one ever came. Our seats are facing the other side so I see the servers introducing themselves and checking on the other patrons so it was like we were forgotten about. My poor kid was starving at this point so I literally had to put my hand in my cup or water to get the ice out. When my food is gone they finally come and ask if we are still doing okay. . I suppose I could’ve waved someone down but idk it was just frustrating seeing the other side get waited on and us forgotten especially since we needed something . Food was good but after spending $33 (tip included) for a beef rice bowl and a kids ramen I’m still hungry they 🤷🏻‍♀️

Terrible experience. It opened at 11am and it took nearly half an hour to bring our ramen out. Ramen should be quick and for a restaurant that is named after that it should be good. It was not worth waiting for or even paying for, for that matter. The broth was bland, the noodles were starchy and gross. The egg was hard boiled instead of soft boiled. We didn’t even finish our ramen, we just left it and paid to eat at another restaurant since we were still hungry. When we complained about how long it took the bartender and waitress offered no apology, just that they had just opened. That’s not a good reason, it’s unprofessional to not be ready and have poor customer service, say nothing of flavorless food. Awful experience and it wasn’t so cheap that any of those things could be overlooked.

went in and ordered a chicken ramen add shrimp and took a bite of a meat I’ve never tasted before. could have been pork from the looks of it’s texture (which this place is heavy on along with I’ve never bitten into my anything pork related my entire life). Chicken and shrimp were both there but but chef may have made a mistake and a piece of fried pork may have slipped in. No problem, accidents happen. However the reason I’m giving it a 1 star is directly due to the manager and his incompetence. Argued saying it wasn’t pork and I’m mistaken. I’m very aware how chicken tastes and this just wasn’t it. Do better.

I hate leaving negative reviews but this is just to hopefully dissuade anyone from eating on the ramen side of the restaurant. The Thai side is decent. You stand to order and the tip prompt STARTS at 20% and goes up to 30. I’m literally standing at the counter like it’s a fast food place, what service has been rendered at this point to earn 20-30%? The ramen didn’t taste like anything. Mushrooms didn’t taste like anything. Hard boiled eggs were both overcooked AND cold. How do you even achieve this? 2 prices of meat for in the tonkatsu ramen, and fatty ligament filled meat in the chicken ramen. I’d never go back here. Impressively bad.

Worst experience ever! Walked in an ordered while grilled squid that the cashier stated was available only to be cancelled due in availability when we have finished ordering, paying, & siting waiting for our order of food to come out. Then when all things were finally sorted with mathematically which was another episode in itself, the 3rd and final incident incident transpired when I was trying to enjoy my rice bowl & scooped a fork full of rice and cabbage to find a HAIR! Come and eat at your own risk!

Came here one night since every other ramen place was closed and I definitely should’ve looked at the reviews before coming here. My girlfriend ordered a pad Thai and found GLASS in food that she bit into. Absolutely will not be coming back to this location.