Sacramento Magazine your username your email your username your email Photos from the_gallery_by_jb Instagram. Before COVID, Josh Bieker ran an exclusive series of private, prix-fixe dinners from his Curtis Park home. But when COVID hit, he—like every other food professional in town—had to pivot and find a new way to make a living making food. Instead of six-course tasting menus for an intimate group of diners, he started offering takeout comfort food—things like lasagna, burgers and barbecued ribs. And he discovered that he enjoyed it. “It’s interesting, coming up with these concepts and doing comfort food,” he says.