Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar

Specialties

We are a health oriented café with many vegetarian and vegan food and drink items as well as meat dishes on the menu. We are noted for our Quesadillas, grilled with natural jack y cheddar cheese, garlic y oregano and stuffed with black olives, avocado, lettuce y tomatoes. Customers tell us it is the best in town. We also serve variety of sandwiches, including Turkey, Ham, Tuna, Cream Cheese, Tofu and more. Salads are made with Spring Mix Lettuce, Fresh Veggies, Sunflower Seeds and are served Vegetarian or can be topped with Meat, Cheese, Tuna or Pasta. We also serve fresh juice and licuados, or smoothies, using all fresh ingredients, nothing frozen or concentrated. And we have a nice selection of beer y wine. In the evening we feature music, poetry y comedy.

History

Established in 1983.

My sister Chris Luna and myself, Art, started Luna’s Café in August of 1983. We patterned the Luna’s after a Mexican beach café you might encounter in Mazatlan or Puerto Vallarta. But we also enjoyed music, visual arts, dance, poetry and theatre. So we became Sacramento’s first café gallery, serving up light café fare with original art gracing the walls. Initially we featured local Chicano y Native American artists because the local galleries considered their work more in the genre of folk rather than fine art. But that soon changed with the likes of internationally recognized local artists like Estaban Villa, Jose Montoya, Juanishi Orosco, Louie ‘the foot’ Gonzalez, Lorraine and Eva Garcia y Gronk and Magu from L.A. and others exhibiting their work at Luna’s. Soon other local visual artists were asking for shows and after a couple of years we became more Multi Cultural in our approach. That’s the way of the universe isn’t it? We’re all in it together, so let’s journey on!

Meet the Business Owner

Art L.

Business Owner

I really enjoy my work with Luna’s Café. I feel like I have turned my hobby into a business. I’ve always enjoyed working with people, bringing them together to make things happen. My sister Chris and I have always been community oriented, volunteering our time with various organizations as we grew up. And we have used the café to support various causes over the years through fundraisers and networking. And artists and musicians are the perfect people to work with because they are always on the cutting edge of change, pushing the parameters of life and society to make change, to make things better. Artists are the true visionaries. You see it in their work, hear it in their words, whether it is music or poetry. And what better way to discuss politics and the days events than over a good healthy meal and a cold beer or glass of wine!