The local mainstay offers genial hospitality with locally sourced food and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence–winning wine list.

Hawks is a food-and-wine haven located, perhaps unexpectedly, within a strip mall in Granite Bay, Calif., an affluent, primarily residential suburb east of Sacramento. When the restaurant debuted in 2007, Granite Bay wasn’t known as an area for fine dining, yet owners Michael Fagnoni and Molly Hawks were convinced that locals were eager for a good restaurant.

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