Spicy is a relative term. For true heat seekers, the word “spicy” on the menu is often more talk than taste. These five restaurants won’t disappoint.
Articles by Stett Holbrook
These days, we seem to have more time for the latter than the former. Such is life in Silicon Valley. The trouble is that greasy, unhealthy, industrial fast food dominates the quick-meal landscape. But Palo Alto’s new Asian Box offers something different.
Chicken with green curry and pad thai are great, but these five San Jose Thai restaurants encourage you to delve deeper into one of the Silicon Valley’s most beloved cuisines.
Organizers of the San Jose Taco Festival on April 14 at History Park claim it will be Northern California’s largest taco truck festival. The event is being organized by Moveable Feast, a food truck event and catering company founded by Ryan Sebastian, the man behind Treatbot, San Jose’s own ice cream and karaoke truck.
East Side San Jose is filled with great Mexican restaurants that offer plenty of tacos and taquerias, but also regional specialties like birria, tortas and uchepos, a tamale dish from Michoacan.
The road trip and the literal and figurative potholes we hit along the way are fading into memory, but Food Forward lives on. Next month, on April 9 at 7:30pm, KQED will air our first episode: “Urban Agriculture in America.” The show will play on PBS stations across the country for most of the month of April.
The shoebox of a restaurant specialized in yakitori, charcoal-grilled skewers of meat, fish and vegetables. But in 2008, a fire in a Chinese restaurant next door damaged Sumiya, and the restaurant closed. Sumiya has since reopened on Homestead Road in Santa Clara, while Gaku opened on the site of the old Sumiya. For me, the new Gaku is better than the old Sumiya.
San Jose is more of a meat and potatoes town than a seafood city, but if you know where to look you can find some good fish. Look here.
The upside to the furor over the naming of Story Road’s Vietnamese business district two years ago was everybody got hip to the fact San Jose has a thriving Vietnamese business district with great food to boot.
Jenneke De Vries’ husband takes pizza very seriously. He was born in Naples to Dutch parents, and although he left Italy when he was still a young boy, he returned frequently to eat the city’s famed wood-fired bread creation. “He pretty much grew up on the pizza margarita,” she says. “He knows what he’s talking about.” Years later, living in Silicon Valley and working as a software engineer, he built a dome oven in his backyard so he could create thin-crust pizzas of his own.
