If you've walked past the patio at OBO' Italian Table & Bar this year and noticed construction fencing tucked around the back of the building, you weren't imagining a new project. You were watching the same address do it again. Sellands Neighborhood Cafe & Bar closed its doors at 4370 Town Center Blvd in January, and before the paint had fully dried on OBO's new sign, a Diamond Springs butcher shop signed a lease for the space directly behind it. One storefront, two tenant changes, inside a single calendar year. That's not typical churn. That's a landlord betting hard on one corner of El Dorado Hills Town Center.
What Actually Happened Out Front
Selland Family Restaurants announced in January that its El Dorado Hills cafe was closing as part of a broader company-wide rebrand, with the space reopening as OBO' Italian Table & Bar, the group's second location after its original spot on Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento. On Instagram, the team framed it simply: "OBO' Italian Table and Bar is coming to El Dorado Hills at Town Center!"
The company's own reporting at the time pointed to a tentative mid-February opening. That date slipped. Construction was still underway through the late winter, and neither OBO' nor Selland Family Restaurants committed to a firm reopening date for weeks afterward. By summer, though, the wait was over. OBO' had a full seven-day schedule, a happy hour running Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m., and a running Meatball Monday special, plus a spacious patio that looks out over the Town Center lake and amphitheater rather than the parking lot most tenants get.
The Butcher Moving In Behind It
While OBO' was still finishing its build-out, a second business was already lining up for the same address. Kings Meats, a family-run butcher shop that's operated in Diamond Springs since February 2020, confirmed plans for a second location in a 4,000-square-foot-plus space at 4370 Town Center Blvd, Suite 110, tucked just behind OBO'.
Owner Casey King, a butcher since 1993, has been eyeing El Dorado Hills for a while. "This is a location we have been wanting to expand into for at least three years now," he told What Now Sacramento in April, adding that things were "finally moving in that direction."
The plan for the new shop goes beyond a straight copy of the original. King has said he wants to add to-go wine and beer and a more elevated specialty cheese program, building what he calls a "steakhouse-quality" experience alongside the dry-aged cuts, Wagyu, house-made sausages, and marinated tri-tip the Diamond Springs location is known for. The target opening is September 2026, though as with OBO' next door, that's a plan and not a promise. No address confirmation beyond Suite 110 or exact hours have been finalized as of this writing.
One Address, Two Kitchens
Zoom out from that single storefront and the pattern holds. Bonchon, the Korean fried chicken chain known for its double-fried technique, has joined the Town Center roster. Mikuni is reportedly replacing Aji Japanese Bistro. Barrel and Bliss Wine Bar opened with 27 rotating wine labels and 8 draft taps. Gold Dust Pizza and The Posh Bagel have both signed on. None of these are random additions scattered across the property. They're stacking on top of each other at the lake-and-amphitheater end of the boulevard, the same stretch where Sellands became OBO' and OBO' is about to gain a butcher shop as a neighbor.
| Address or Business | Before | After | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4370 Town Center Blvd (front) | Sellands Neighborhood Cafe & Bar | OBO' Italian Table & Bar | Open, full menu and hours confirmed |
| 4370 Town Center Blvd (Suite 110, rear) | Vacant | Kings Meats | Targeting September 2026 |
| Aji Japanese Bistro | Aji | Mikuni | Reported, not yet confirmed |
| Multiple centers | Various | The Posh Bagel | Leases signed |
That concentration matters if you're trying to figure out where Town Center's energy is actually headed. It isn't spreading evenly. It's piling up at one end.
The Calendar That Doesn't Care Who's Renting
None of this storefront turnover touches the events that give Town Center its rhythm, because those aren't run by the leasing office. Cars & Coffee happens most Saturday mornings, drawing classic and modern vehicles to the same lot regardless of who's serving breakfast nearby, and it's produced through a partnership between the Town Center Association and the El Dorado Hills Arts and Entertainment Foundation, a nonprofit built specifically to keep community programming running independent of any single tenant.
The Live on the Boulevard concert series uses the amphitheater that OBO's patio now overlooks. The 2026 El Dorado Hills Brewfest, produced by the El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce and presented by Red Hawk Resort and Casino, drew more than 40 breweries, cideries and wineries to the grounds on September 5, stretching from the amphitheater to the bridge and over to Vine Street. That one's already wrapped for the year, but Hands4Hope's Fall Festival is still ahead, with a hay maze, hay rides, pumpkin decorating and a dessert walk built for kids of all ages, run by more than 150 volunteers as one of the youth nonprofit's largest fundraisers.
Put those two things side by side and you get a clearer picture of how Town Center actually works. The storefronts turn over fast enough that a single address can change hands twice in one year. The calendar underneath them doesn't move at that speed at all, because it belongs to nonprofits and community groups, not to whoever's holding the lease that quarter.
What This Means If You're Walking Past It This Week
If you've been wondering what's behind that fencing near OBO', now you know: it's a butcher counter, not another restaurant swap, and if the September target holds it should be open by the time this season turns toward Halloween. In the meantime, the existing Town Center lineup near that stretch still covers a lot of ground on its own, from South Fork Grille and Sienna to C. Knight's Steakhouse, Thai Paradise, Relish Burger, Encanto, and Vacanza, all within the same short walk Brewfest attendees used to get from the amphitheater to dinner.
The bigger takeaway isn't which restaurant is where this month. It's that one corner of El Dorado Hills Town Center is absorbing nearly all of this year's food and beverage turnover, while the rest of the property and its recurring events keep operating on a completely separate clock.
If you're curious how a corridor like this shows up in home values nearby, or just want someone who tracks these Town Center changes block by block, Danny Tejeda is happy to talk through what it means for your corner of El Dorado Hills.
