If Moveable Feast founder Ryan Sebastian has his way, people in Silicon Valley will have 1,000 food truck-related events to consider this year.
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All Nippon Airways announced Tuesday its plans to begin daily, nonstop flights between San Jose and Tokyo. Growth in traveler demand accelerated the schedule from the current five weekly flights, which resumed on June 1, to seven weekly flights, according to the airline.
As George Gershwin once wrote, “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” Blues music was in full swing as we entered the dining room of the The Smoking Pig BBQ Company on North Fourth Street in San Jose. Bent notes and smooth, hypnotizing rhythms brought some sass to the scene as the waitress fixed a hair over her ear and jaunted over cheerily to greet us.
Before settingfoot in the new Restaurant Guo Cui in Cupertino, go ahead and erase all Chinese dining experiences from your mind—at least ones from this area. The owners have gone to great lengths to breathe new life into what an American Chinese restaurant can be, right down to the ambience, which marries traditional Chinese culture with a flair for modern interior design and a casual atmosphere.
When it comes to a cult film like Reefer Madness, one wonders what more can be explored in an already absurd collection of cautionary marijuana tales. Luckily, the San Jose Stage Company finds something new by embracing something old: the original script of the 1936 film itself, to which it shows commendable loyalty. Reefer Madness: The Musical, by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney
San Pedro Square Market has created such a buzz since it opened in late 2011, that one local architectural firm wants to recreate the retail and restaurant hotspot in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District.
I was at Habana Cuba, a local go-to for Cuban food in the South Bay that is also shaking up the breakfast scene. Tropical morning cocktails and intriguing plates like the “not-so-French” Cuban French toast have drawn many diners to this iconic location on Race Street, which is now serving a Cuban brunch from 8am to 1pm on the weekends.
Spacebar, written under the auspices of his drama teacher, Mr. Ramirez, is finished and, in his estimation, ready for the Great White Way. In a letter addressed to “Broadway,” Kyle explains that Spacebar isn’t about the space key on a computer—that would be ridiculous. No, it’s about a bar in outer space, in the year 9013.
Hai Nam, a new Vietnamese restaurant in East San Jose, is centered on chicken, particularly its flagship dish, com ga hai nam (whence the name of the place is derived). Roughly 80 percent of the dishes are chicken-based, including pho ga, which is Vietnam’s chicken noodle soup, while the more common beef-based pho is nowhere to be found on the menu.
San Pedro Square Market is a bustling indoor market filled with more than 20 vendors offering food, drinks and shopping.
