The 49ers’ new home may become the South Bay’s newest restaurant row and remake game day fare in the process. The menu at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will include such reimagined comfort foods as Wagyu dogs and peanut butter crunch burgers.
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Ken Burns is no stranger to storytelling. Burns has shared the rich history of America as a documentary filmmaker for over three decades, and it’s this work that landed him as the recipient of the 2013 “John Steinbeck Award: ‘In The Souls of the People.‘”
Who’s going to skip the most important meal of the day when it’s not only easier to find, but also sharing a menu with burgers? We talk to John Pol, longtime proprietor of A Good Morning in Los Altos, who brought some of his morning mojo east and opened The Griddle in Santa Clara.
Most low-income college students—four out of five—won’t earn a bachelor’s degree by their mid-twenties. Life gets in the way, especially for poor and first-generation college students. Stephanie Bravo, the first in her own family to attend college, set out to change that.
While enrolled in the Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance Medical Mentorship Program as an undergrad at San Jose State University, the Bravo founded a free online mentorship network. StudentMentor.org connects thousands of students across the country with professionals willing to mentor them. Below, we ask the South Bay native about her inspiration and her favorite spots around town.
The Mmoon also rises. The family-run empanaderia, which had operated a downtown San Jose restaurant since 2010, decided to close the downtown eatery this summer and consolidate, focusing their energy on their Los Gatos location.
Along El Camino Real, from Santa Clara to Sunnyvale in particular, has become one of the South Bay’s best bets for ethnically diverse dining choices and it now has another option to add to the list: Thali, a Gujarati-style restaurant that opened a few months ago. Many dishes are sweet, salty and spicy at the same time. Salt, sugar, lemon, lime and tomato are used generously in Gujarati food.
Nevermind the top-story window. Catch a view of San Jose from tallest building in the city by scaling down the side of it. A fundraiser for Shatterproof, an organization dedicated to fighting childhood addiction to drugs and alcohol, gives the public a chance to rappel down the side of the San Jose Marriott downtown.
Abraham Menor appreciates the power of a good story, especially one previously untold. In his early twenties, he picked up a camera to document some of the stories he stumbled upon during his volunteer work or the ones he saw in the form of street art and the culture surrounding it. Combining his interests in sociology and art, he took portraits of forgotten war veterans and community volunteers, pictures of hip-hop artists and other local subcultures. Eventually, he amassed a volume of images documenting life in the South Bay, a collection of experiences he plans to compile in a book due out next year.
Randy Musterer fully embraces the idea of “American” sushi and makes a point to be as innovative and non-traditional as possible. Before opening Sushi Confidential in downtown Campbell in April 2012, he held sushi making parties for friends, worked part time as a sushi chef (while working full time in the bio-tech industry) and started a sushi catering company in 2006. But the idea for Sushi Confidential was to push the boundaries as much as possible.
