Sacramento is getting a swanky new riverfront restaurant.
It'll open Thursday - for one day only.
The outdoor café is dreamed up by a Hollywood crew that's shooting scenes for CBS' "The Mentalist" - transforming a seldom-used eighth-floor balcony of West Sac's ziggurat building into a restaurant.
The local filming is a first for "The Mentalist," even though the hit show is cinematically set here and features a supposed Sacramento-based crime-fighting organization.
On Thursday, the film crew's base camp will be set up on the River Walk just outside the pyramid-like building now occupied by the the state's Department of General Services.
Cast and crew will take a freight elevator from the basement to the eighth floor, minimizing disruptions for employees, says DGS spokesman Eric Lamoureux.
"For 99.9 percent of our people, it will be business as usual," he says.
But that's not to say employees aren't excited about Hollywood's arrival. Lamoureux notes that women seem especially interested in catching a glimpse of "Mentalist" star Simon Baker. "If you ask most females about him, they'll give you a reaction," he says.
The credit for luring "The Mentalist" crew to town goes to city film commissioner Lucy Steffens, who's been lobbying for local shooting since the show debuted last year and became a surprise hit. Her efforts led to Thursday's shooting schedule in West Sac and at the state Capitol on Friday, involving more than 100 cast and crew members. It will generate a large - but undetermined - boost for the local economy. Steffens' next goal: "an entire episode (filmed in Sacramento) with more locations."
Source: SacBee
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