Warby Parker, the glasses company that promises to provide its customers with customized, boutique-style shades and prescription specs without breaking the bank, is opening it’s 20th brick and mortar store at Santana Row on Dec. 19. Like the shoe company Toms, Warby Parker is proud…
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Pub naming is an exercise in obscurity. Combine two usually unrelated, but whimsical words—The Rugged Beaver, Bog N’ Porridge, The Goat’s Goggles—and you have a memorable christening fit for a quaint neighborhood hangout. But this inventiveness in nomenclature rings phony when it’s not rooted in…
Hey, we get it. Going to the folks’ house for the holidays isn’t for everyone. But whether dining out is a family tradition or a completely foreign experience, Silicon Valley restaurants don’t skimp on serving up great fixings. Here’s just a few of some of…
It wouldn’t be the holiday season if Downtown San Jose weren’t ringing with Christmas music and Ceasar Chavez Park weren’t overflowing with Christmas trees, lights and holiday displays. On any given night, from Nov. 27 to Jan. 3, families, couples and friends stroll through the…
Steve Borkenhagen has been part of the downtown scene in San Jose since before there was a scene to speak of. Borkenhagen, who ran the iconic restaurant Eulipia for 35 years, recently transferred ownership of the business to his three children, and helped them reopen…
Whether dining out on Christmas is a family tradition or a completely new experience, San Jose and Silicon Valley offer many restaurants that will be open for a festive Christmas Eve or a lavish Christmas brunch. On Christmas Eve, restaurants like LB Steak and Left…
The story goes a speakeasy sold tickets to see a striped pig. After seeing the crudely painted swine, entrants received a free cup of rum and mingled, safe from the watchful eye of prohibition agents. A Redwood City gastropub, The Striped Pig, gets its name…
The streets of Saratoga around the holidays are picturesque, like a postcard of New England. Strings of lights adorn the tree-lined streets. On a Saturday night, downtown is remarkably empty—in stark contrast to the general bumper-to-bumper pace of Silicon Valley. Nearly everyone is inside a…
Randy Musterer, executive chef and owner of Sushi Confidential in Campbell took a chance and followed his passion with a career change. Musterer, better known in the community as Sushi Randy, opened Sushi Confidential after following his passions for sushi and preparing innovative dishes for…
Joe Cirone weighed the odds of survival and knew his Willow Glen farm-to-table restaurant, Haymarket, had reached a crossroads. “We were at about four years of operation,” he says, “and it was either I lock the doors, start putting white tablecloths out, take all of…
