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2009 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Second Place

Best French


2009 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Second Place

Best Restaurant Culinary Excellence


2009 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Third Place

Best Chef (other than David Kinch)


2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - Third Place

Best Romantic Restaurant

When owner Mike Mashayekh opened Le Papillon in 1977, he had one thing in mind: creating one of the finest restaurants in the Bay Area. Mission accomplished. A whole generation of techies has grown up on this fine French cuisine.

-- Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 24, 2008


2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - First Place

Best French

There’s really no competition. Le Papillon is Silicon Valley’s definitive French restaurant. Although it’s been open since 1977, chef Scott Cooper continues to innovate and keep things exciting and delicious.

-- Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 24, 2008


2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Staff Pick and Reader Survey Winner - First Place
 
Best French
Some old restaurants just get old and refuse to die, but Le Papillon must have gotten hold of some anti-aging potion because the place is as new and exciting as ever. Set in a bunkerlike building on busy Saratoga Avenue, Le Papillon is like another world inside--a fancy, elegant yet nonsnooty world with truly outstanding and technically challenging French food with a slight Asian influence.
 
— Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007