Scrambled or fried? Hashbrowns or home fries? Wheat or white? Important decisions await you at breakfast. Here are five restaurants that will get your day started right.
Articles by Stett Holbrook
The bar is really more of a lounge. There are no bar stools yet, just a pair of comfy gray chenille couches between the bar and the reception desk. Additional seating will come next year, as well as a small menu. But the drinks are sublime.
It’s still a tough climate to open a new restaurant in San Jose, but that didn’t stop a handful of notable newcomers from opening their doors.
Silicon Valley touts its tech-based economy and spirit of innovation, but the region has been a backwater when it comes to something so basic as securing a healthy source of local food. But thankfully that could be changing. Last month the San Jose City Council adopted “Envision San Jose 2040,” a 30-year general plan that includes local food.
San Jose’s Felipe Hernandez has a fondness for Oaxacan food. He grew up in Mexico City with great street foods like pambazos, gorditas and tacos, but it was the cooking of his late mother’s native Oaxaca that he loved best. He opened Monte Alban with his aunt to showcase his mother’s cooking.
Italian food has been part of San Jose’s restaurant scene for so long it might as well be called American food. These restaurants showcase the more is more style of San Jose Italian food.
San Jose’s dining scene is forever evolving. Trends come and go and the economy rises and falls, but through it all these restaurants have endured.
I’m thankful that I get to write about food, a passion of mine for the past 30 years. It’s a privilege to do what I do. For me, that means it’s my responsibility to write about more than meals good and bad. While I want to continue sharing my restaurant discoveries with you, I think it’s my duty to also report about the ills of a food system gone off the rails and point out solutions wherever they may be.
A good restaurant bar offers the best of both worlds: good food and good drink under one roof.
If there was ever any doubt that Congress is a bunch of corrupt morons, last week’s vote on school-lunch reform should clear that up once and for all. Legislators voted to block a long-overdue overhaul of the nation’s school-lunch program proposed by the U.S. Agriculture Department and handed a victory to makers of frozen pizza, French fries and tomato paste.
