In preparation for the Grand Opening of our brand new community Encore, this weekend, we wanted to give you a look into the City of Fairfield. By the time you fall in love with our new homes, you will already know that Fairfield is a great place to call home!
Fairfield: An Overview
A mention of Fairfield, California brings the usual responses, “Oh! That’s where the Jelly Belly factory is!” or, “Sure, the Budweiser plant is over there, right?” Well it’s true! Fairfield is home to the very famous Jelly Belly candy factory, as well as the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Pretty impressive stuff! Proud of these iconic attractions, Fairfield is so much more. Open your eyes and embrace your explorer spirit. You’ll find that Fairfield has enough surprises to fill an overnight or long-weekend escape.
Fairfield includes, and is surrounded by, some of northern California’s most beautiful landscapes. Well situated, Fairfield is located within the California Coastal Range, centered directly north of Suisun Bay, northeast of San Pablo Bay, east of the Sacramento Valley, and is nearly equidistant from Sacramento and San Francisco. It is approximately 40 miles/64km from both San Francisco and Sacramento, approximately 30 miles/48km from Oakland, and less than 10 miles/16km from the Napa Valley.
Freeway close and urban in nature, many of Fairfield’s greatest attributes embrace its rural and agricultural roots. Nearby shopping, lodging, restaurants, and nightlife transcend the destination’s rural nature. The region’s Coastal Ranges and canyons create recreational abundance: championship golf, orchards and farms, and scenic backroads. Agricultural riches in the Suisun Valley are protected to south by the Coast Range bordering the Napa Valley, the Vaca Mountains and Mt. George Range to the west, and Suisun Bay to the south.
Many familiar brand hotels are located just off Interstate 80, making Fairfield a convenient overnight and weekend getaway. Fairfield’s Westfield Solano Mall is the largest indoor shopping mall in Solano County, featuring more than one million square feet of retail space including a variety of popular restaurants and clothing boutiques. Just across the way, the 140,000-square-foot Gateway Courtyard Shopping Center rounds out the local retail scene including a popular northern California micro-brewery Blue Frog Grill & Grog.
Fairfield offers a full menu of fine and casual dining to satisfy any taste and appetite such as Ahi’s Seafood and Chop House, Canepa Delicatessen, Cucina Italiana, Favela’s Fusion, and Legends and Heroes Sports Bar and Grill. Or if you want to add some fun to your food, the Jelly Belly Café serves Jelly Belly-shaped hamburgers and pizzas.
Check-out downtown Fairfield or the North and West Texas Street business districts for a number of one-of-a-kind shops, and where special events occur annually.