Food Social hosts an event at Motif Lounge in downtown San Jose from 5 to 9pm this Friday (Sept. 16). The event costs $5 in advance and $10 at the door. Once inside, visitors can sample locally cooked foods for $4-$8 a plate and see what’s cooking in the backyards and kitchens of Silicon Valley.
Articles by Stett Holbrook
Silicon Valley is blessed with a number of good South Indian restaurants and the dosa, a thin griddle cake made from fermented rice and lentils, is one of the stars of the menu.
It is a strange state of affairs when it’s easier to buy a bag of weed than a gallon of dairy-direct milk. All I need to score dope is to make up a fake ailment (sleeplessness, dandruff) and pay $100 bucks to a shady doctor to get a medical marijuana prescription. Then I can buy as much pot as I like. But I don’t need weed. I want raw milk.
Avoid the drive-thru and drive to these top burger stops instead.
Avoid the drive-thru and drive to these top burger stops instead.
The restaurant began as the Happy Hound Dog in Danville, Calif. In 1968, owner Dorothy Dresslar served a menu of just hot dogs, potato chips and soda pop. She sold the business to her ex-husband, Hugh Dresslar, who opened in Los Gatos in 1971. Dresslar’s son, Dan Dresslar, has been running the business for the past 20 years. Dan Dresslar and his family live right behind the restaurant off Los Gatos Boulevard.
Labor Day is the official end of summer but with six weeks or more of good weather, barbecue season goes on When the smoke clears you’ll find these five top Silicon Valley BBQ restaurants.
When Luis Lourenco was a 12-year-old kid pushing his skateboard down Alum Rock Avenue in east San Jose, the words he heard from every other storefront weren’t “Good morning” or “Buenos dias.” They were “Bom dia.” The neighborhood just east of Highway 101 was once known as Little Portugal. Depending on what GPS system one uses, the name still turns up on some maps, but today the area might be better called little Michoacan or Little Saigon.
San Jose native Joe Cirone has worked in restaurants most of his adult life, but until opening Hay Market Restaurant in Willow Glen three weeks he never had a place that was all his. Years ago, he worked under David Kinch at Sent Sovi and went on to help start restaurants all over the country as a consultant with the CB5 Restaurant Group. But at 41, he tired of living out of a suitcase and wanted to settle down. And he saw an opportunity in Willow Glen.
Thick or thin? West Coast or East Coast? Silicon Valley has its pick of pizza. Here are our top five picks for the best pizza in Silicon Valley.
