Gulf seafood event at Mayfield Café and Village Pub; Duckhorn wine tasting at San Jose’s Unwined wine bar; wine and chocolate pairing at Enoteca La Storia in Los Gatos; wine tasting weekend at summit wineries; LB Steak Sunday night prime rib dinners; walk with the winemaker at Cooper Garrod Estate Cellars.
Articles by Stett Holbrook
Vin, Vino, Wine is a 25-year-old wine shop (regulars call it VVW) with a carefully chosen selection of wines from around the world. The store’s tasting bar is open five days a week and features a revolving lineup for six or more wines by the glass. Rebecca Rapaszky is the store’s manager and wine buyer.
As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking, reading and talking about food, limiting my reviews to just a chef’s skills and a restaurant’s décor and service isn’t enough anymore. Isn’t the fact a restaurant serves low-grade, factory-farmed ground beef made of a composite of ammonia-treated meat scraps from different processing plants as relevant as whether the kitchen overcooked my burger or the waiter refilled my water?
Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
TusCA Restaurant and Stag’s Leap Wine Dinner Nov. 18
Join Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and TusCA Executive Chef Chris Bifano and Chef de Cuisine Jose Salas for a dinner of great food and wine.
Junnoon, although still worth a trip, seems to be resting on the laurels of its past success rather than using it as an impetus to move forward.
The Butter Paddle sells kitchenware, but unlike big commercial retailers, their profits go to Eastfield Ming Quong. A hybrid of two nonprofit organizations- Eastfield, an orphanage providing shelter, care and education for local homeless youth, and Ming Quong, an organization committed to rescuing Chinese girls from slavery and prostitution.
Work on the 50,000-square-foot project is well under way, and completion is set for next spring. The marketplace will house about 30 vendors including a produce market, meat and fish market, wine bars, demonstration kitchen, restaurants, a barbershop, live music and a 25,000-square-foot public square.
Salvatore Calisi, former executive chef at Los Gatos’ excellent Dio Deka, has taken over the kitchen at San Jose’s Ristorante Fratello, a 10-year-old neighborhood Italian restaurant. He ditched every dish on the menu to create a totally new lineup. He also has plans to open a higher-profile Italian restaurant of his own in Los Gatos. Suddenly, it seems, Silicon Valley’s Italian food scene just got a whole lot better.
