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Restaurants
Staff Pick and Reader Survey Winner - First Place
The Snell site pulled in beef lovers so fast, they had to open a second Mojo in Willow Glen. Tasty, made-to-order patties prepared on a grill where you can track your burger—that's a plus. A nice selection (even chicken—but seriously, why would you?), TVs to distract the little ones, a neon Mojo mounted on a surfboard over the condiments table—all add up in the right ways. And last time we checked, the cops eat here too, and they know from burgers. More
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Restaurants
The new Siam in San Jose could change the way you look at Thai cuisine
The menu at San Jose's Siam offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowd-pleasing combinations with Americanized names like "cashew lover," "Thai angry" and "pleasing garlic." There's plenty to recommend. More
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Restaurants
Restaurants on Santana Row are hurting
WHEN SANTANA ROW opened six years ago, downtown San Jose restaurant owners feared that the flashy lineup of new eateries would suck whatever life existed out of downtown's dining scene. But the economic cloud of doom spares no one, not even bright and shiny restaurants with plenty of parking and easy freeway access like those at Santana Row. More
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Restaurants
New Silicon Valley Restaurant Openings
A survey of some of the valley's recently opened restaurants: More
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Wine
The Wine Column
Last month the Bonny Doon winery in Santa Cruz opened a tasting room in an industrial neighborhood on the Westside of Santa Cruz. It's the coolest tasting room I've ever seen. More
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Books
A preview of the International Antiquarian Book Fair for the weekend of Feb. 13-15. More
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News
Intro
In Silicon Valley, the time is right to shop local. The movement caught fire last year, championed in the Bay Area by organizations like San Francisco Locally Owned Merchants Alliance (SFLOMA) and the East Bay’s Sustainable Business Alliance. In November, Metro Silicon Valley newspaper brought the Shop Local crusade to Silicon Valley, urging readers to pledge their holiday dollars to local businesses. More
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Specialty
When owner Laure Chicoine first approached the Bay Area Green Business Program about making Nirvana the region’s first certified hair salon, they acted like she was crazy. More
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Restaurants
“The mentality my dad had was, if you want it, you’ve got to make it happen,” remembers Sam Carlino, owner of Sam’s BBQ. More
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Food Services
Sometimes a business’s local connections aren’t always easy to see. Like when they show up before everyone’s awake to deliver produce. “We have local farmers that come in their own trucks and deliver to the store,” says Sal Arciniega, marketing team leader for Whole Foods Campbell. More
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