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| | Dine Downtown celebrates San Jose restaurants; Mission College expanded hospitality program IT HAS BEEN a tough couple of years for downtown San Jose restaurants. The ones still standing are true survivors. Now there is a chance to support downtown�s dining scene and these stalwart eateries: the second-annual Dine Downtown, June 2�12. The event showcases downtown San Jose restaurants and includes specially priced dinners at nearly two dozen downtown eateries, including [i]Morocco�s, Mezcal, La Pastaia, Billy Berk�s, 19 Market[/i] and [i]Arcadia[/i]. The 10-day event will feature special three-course menus priced from $20 to $40. More » |  | | | In a city world famous for its restaurants, these are the ten best. More » | | | | Mezcal offers a different and distinctive take on Mexican Last year was not great for new restaurants in Silicon Valley, but there were a few standout debuts. Near the top of my list is downtown San Jose's Mezcal. More » | | | | Chef Glenn Thompson of Bayonne preaches the gospel of healthy Southern food. Don’t laugh; he’s done it. Chef Glenn “Gator” Thompson is on a mission to show the world that it’s possible to make healthy Southern food without sacrificing flavor. He hopes his cooking will serve as an example to his overweight brethren in the South that one of the country’s most distinctive regional cuisine need not be hazardous to your health. The platform for his mission is Bayonne restaurant in downtown San Jose. “This is a restaurant to get the word out and give back.” More » | | | | At last, with Menlo Park’s Madera, the high rollers of Silicon Alley has a restaurant to call their own Walking into the comfortable, luxurious Madera restaurant past the gleaming Lexuses, BMWs and Mercedes Benzes lined up by the valet attendants, one enters a world where Silicon Valley’s high-tech high rollers come to eat and drink and be seen doing it. Madera is located in the Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel complex on what was a dirt lot at the corner of Interstate 280 and Sand Hill Road. Sand Hill Road, as you may know, is main street for Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms and during the dot com boom it boasted real estate prices higher than Manhattan. More » | | | | It’s time to stop using bags and start recycling or food containers—even takeout ONCE you start paying attention to something you see it everywhere or hear about it all the time? Lately, for example, I’ve become interested in Volkswagen Westphalia syncro camper vans. They’re typical VW camper vans except they have four-wheel drive and are built on a heavy-duty, military-style chassis. They are the ultimate Baja surf-expedition vehicle. Anyway, even though they are somewhat rare, now that I’m clued into them, I see a few of the burly vans every week. More » | | | | David Feller’s new website allows users to pick their own likes and dislikes DAVID FELLER dislikes mustard. A lot. But he loves technology and food. So it’s not surprising that the former eBay and StumbleUpon executive helped create a website that would feed his interest in cooking and help him avoid the dreaded yellow condiment. Yummly.com, which debuted last week, allows users to search a database of some 500,000 recipes using a host of filters for things like ingredients, allergies, price and preparation time. If someone doesn’t like mustard or, say, cilantro, they simply enter that term and will never see a recipe with those ingredients again. More » | | | | From Sent Sovi in Saratoga to Tigelleria in Campbell—great desserts abound DESSERTS are not Silicon Valley’s strong suit. Mediocre crème brûlée, ho-hum sliced chocolate cake and uninspired, oversweetened fruit desserts abound. But dig a little deeper, and one can find a few outposts of creativity. Saratoga’s Sent Sovi features an appealing patio menu and equally appealing desserts like the “caramel corn”: popcorn-flavored mousse, brown-butter almond cakes and caramelized bananas. More » | | | | Lance Wagner of Little Lou’s in Los Gatos now sells his barbecue sauce in local stores and at San Jose Giants games THERE IS more than barbecued ribs and chicken cooking at Little Lou’s Barbecue in Los Gatos. Sales of the restaurant’s barbecue sauce are smoking. Little Lou’s owner, Lance Wagner, had been selling his regular and spicy barbecue sauce out the restaurant for years. Encouraged by friends and customers, he decided to try to put his stuff on the shelves of local stores. More » | | | | San Jose’s pot clubs offer a variety of tasty ways to make the medicine go down AS Metro’s food editor, it’s my job to stay on top of food trends in Silicon Valley. Gourmet taco trucks? I’m there. Farm-to-table restaurants. All over it. A new Somali restaurant? On it. Recently, I’ve caught the whiff of a new culinary phenomena that has San Jose buzzing: pot club cuisine. More » | |
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