In The Hood: December

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What You See Is What You Get

By Michael J. Marando
Eddie’s is not the kind of place you’ll want to take someone on a first lunch date. You won’t find it listed in most local dining guides. No fancy designer created the interior. It has no website. In fact, unless you’re very familiar with Broadway and 16th Street, you’re likely to miss Eddie’s altogether. And that’s just fine with proprietor Eddie Fong.
    The joint is in Broadway’s famed Tower District, nestled between a liquor store and a parking lot next to a bank, just down the street from Joe Marty’s.
    Its art-deco façade is a campy reminder of Sacramento’s past, when Broadway was a strip that buzzed with eclectic nightlife, motels and posh entertainment venues. Eddie’s carries a rich pedigree, residing where the legendary Maurice’s American Bar and Melarkey’s Place once stood. The entrance is disheveled, and an unfinished patio area off to the right looks, well, inhabited. “That’s where my homeless guy lives,” Fong says. “He’s just back from vacation.”
    And parking is plentiful — if you get there for breakfast before 7 a.m.
    Had Fong been asked 11 years ago if he would be running a restaurant, he’d have said, “You’re nuts.” A native Sacramentan, the former insurance salesman and grocer got into the business at the urging of his parents, Frank and Jean Fong, who owned several eateries.

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