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Posted on January 24, 2009 by lauren

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Inside Publications, Review, January 29, 2010 We received a terrific review. Our hearty thanks to the writer Greg Sabin and the Hastings. We hope to see you in again soon.

LATEST PRESS: November 25th, http://www.fox40.com/news/fox40_live

Sactown Magazine, Oct/Nov 09 issue.

See page 99 for a wonderful three page article on Iron Steaks.

RECENT PRESS

Check out the Channel 10 video feed of Iron under construction and William Taylor, the owner highlighting some of the exciting elements.

TV – CHANNEL 10 NEWS,  August

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=64165

Check out this great Sacramento Bee article written by Bob Shallit

SACRAMENTO BEE ARTICLE, Aug 11

http://www.sacbee.com/shallit/story/2098685.html

Friday, February 20, 2009

Work begins on steak restaurant in former Fuji on Broadway

Sacramento Business Journal – by Mark Anderson Staff writer

http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/02/23/story16.html

Dennis McCoy | Sacramento Business Journal

Bill Taylor is renovating the former Fuji Restaurant at 13th Street and Broadway to make way for his new venture, Iron Steak.

After several fits and starts, Bill Taylor is getting permits this week for his new Iron Steak restaurant at 13th Street and Broadway.

Taylor plans to keep the clean Japanese architecture of the site’s former tenant, Fuji Restaurant. But he wants to bring a lot more light into the place.

The family that built Fuji in the 1970s took an unusual approach. Restaurants typically put their kitchen, bathrooms and offices in the back, letting the front of the restaurant open to windows on the street. But Fuji’s first floor had no place for windows because that’s where the kitchen, bathroom and offices were,

To compensate, Taylor is planning patio seating on 13th Street and replacing outside wood doors with glass doors to let in some light.

IRON MAN

By Bob Shallit

Sacramento Bee – February 3, 2009

Restaurateur Bill Taylor has a new lender and a new name for the steakhouse he’s opening in April at the former Fuji Japanese restaurant at 13th and Broadway.

The new lender is Temecula Valley Bank, which stepped up last fall – to the tune of $1.87 million – after Taylor’s first bank decided to exit the SBA loan biz.

The new name: Iron, instead of the original Hibachi One-Three Steakhouse.

Taylor says it’s hip these days to have a short restaurant name, plus it’ll save money on signage. As he jokes: “You have to pay for every letter.”

Meanwhile, Taylor says his staff is having fun naming the joint’s drinks, desserts and other house specialties. Monikers like the Iron Maiden, Iron Butterfly, Iron Fist and Iron Ore.

What about Iron Head? “I’ve appropriated that for myself,” says Taylor, who also owns two local Willie’s Burgers outlets.

“I’m pretty stubborn, so some people think it fits.”

Reach Bob Shallit at (916) 321-1049. Back columns: www.sacbee.com/shallit.

For all Bill Taylor’s Restaurant Media:

WILLIE’S BURGERS – ZAGAT RATED

January, 2009

Willies Burgers, Bill’s restaurant on at 16th and Broadway, Sacramento California just made Zagat Survey’s Top Five For Sacramento’s Best Buys:

The results are in from Zagat Survey’s first guide to Sacramento restaurants. 192 Sacramento area restaurants were sampled and the findings are based on the opinions of 1,264 local diners. And they consumed a lot of grub to come to these conclusions.

These diners ate more than 200,000 meals in 2008, and one of the big results: Sacramento meal prices are a relative baragain compared to the rest of the country. The average meal price was $28.43, compared to Zagat’s national average of $34.03. In Sacramento’s 20 most expensive restaurants, the average meal was $53.30, more than $20 less than the Zagat national average of $75.26.

The average food rating for Sacramento area restaurants also showed well. Sacramento’s average food rating was 21.28 on Zagat’s 30 point rating scale, just slightly higher than the national average of 21.15. Sacramento’s average food rating of 21.28 was sandwiched between two venerable food towns: San Francisco (21.29) and Chicago (21.25).

According to Zagat, Sacramentans ate an average of 3.1 restaurant meals per week (the national average was 3.3). The guide was edited by Kate Washington, Carol Diuguid and Bill Corsello. We’re still trying to nail down the date when the Zagat Survey for Sacramento will be released, but in the meantime here are more results:

Top Five Best Buys

1. Whitey’s Jolly Kone
2. La Bonne Soupe Cafe
3. Rick’s Dessert Diner
4. Willie’s Burgers
5. Squeeze Inn