The Kitchen

Hold on to your forks! You're in for quite a meal and quite a show at The Kitchen in Sacramento. This unusual restaurant features unique demonstration dinners with a special flair that only owner and chef Randall Selland can produce. Tune in and find out how The Kitchen's legion of chefs prepared a great meal right before your eyes and some entertainment on the side.

"I want you to treat coming to The Kitchen as coming to my house for dinner and that basically means everything goes!" Selland tells the diners right up front. His whole aim is to make fine dining tasty, but accessible. You can have seconds, even thirds and you're welcome to get up, take a closer look at the preparation.

Selland gets a lot of repeat customers like Kimberly Kelly. "Everybody at work asks me how I can justify spending that much for dinner. And I say, it's not just dinner. It's the presentation. It's Randall. It's wonderful," Kelly said.

As Jackie Tenge knows well you've got to understand the reservation process if you want to get in. "We know that you're supposed to call the first of the month to try to get in two months out. If we forget we just get on the waiting list and inevitably there's a cancellation and we get in," Tenge said.

Dinner, which are held Thursdays through Saturdays (some Sundays) run $95 to $115 per person plus tax and tip. But it's well worth it.