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Vegetarian southern Indian cuisine is flavorful on the tongue and easy on the Earth
Hindu traditions make southern India one of the world's showcases of vegetarian food, and no one would ever call the often fiery cuisine tame or boring. Silicon Valley happens to be tops in the Bay Area for southern Indian food. Southern Indian restaurants offer a compelling example of how millions of people do without meat. In addition to protein-rich dal or lentils, they eat a lot of bread, but not just any bread. More
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Thomas Fogarty Winery of Woodside hosts an unusual alfresco wine-and-dine benefit
WOODSIDE’S Thomas Fogarty Winery will host an unusual food and wine event on June 23. As part of the American Liver Foundation’s annual Flavors Culinary Gala, 10 local chefs will each prepare unique, five-course meals for a table of 10 diners. What makes the event special is that the chefs will prepare their meals tableside and alfresco at the winery without the benefit of kitchens or even refrigerators. All the food will be paired with Fogarty wines. Event proceeds will benefit the American Liver Foundation’s Northern California and Nevada divisions. More
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Break the Chains
Walking down South First Street in San Jose recently, I was thoroughly unsurprised to see that Asqew Grill called it quits last month. The 200 S. First St. location is something of a doomed corner. Zyng Noodles also occupied that space and failed as well. I don’t know the details of why Asqew left, but I wonder if part of the reason was that the chain restaurant simply didn’t resonate with downtown diners. More
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Deezi's Cafe Persia
When Campbell’s Deezi’s Café closed last September, Silicon Valley lost one of its best Persian restaurants. Not only were their koobideh kebabs some of the best I’ve had, but the deezi, a lamb shank stew from which the restaurant takes its name, was not only distinctive and delicious but also unique among the half-dozen or so Persian restaurants I’ve tried in the South Bay, and when the family-run restaurant shut down, it wasn’t available anywhere. Now the restaurant has reopened in a different form in a new location in San Jose. Now called Deezi’s Café Persia, the new space is bright, cheery and more casual. More
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Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. They are simply the best I’ve ever had. More
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Grahm and Kinch: Cafe Couple
Talk about a great food and wine pairing —Bonny Doon Vineyard and Manresa restaurant have teamed up to open a new cafe in the winery’s new Santa Cruz tasting room. More
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Consider the Oyster Bar
Decades before sushi bars proliferated across this land, the oyster bar was the pre-eminent place to consume raw seafood. Traditionally presided over by brusque but efficient men in starched white jackets who pried oysters open with blunt knives and a quick twist of the wrist, the oyster bar remains a great American culinary tradition. We Americans are pretty timid eaters, but we’ve long enjoyed slurping down briny, slimy blobs of live shellfish. More
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Redwood City's food scene is starting to pop. More
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Guillaume Bienaimé makes a red-hot debut as executive chef at Menlo Park restaurant
Sometimes, procrastination pays off. I’d been meaning to eat at Marché to sample chef Howard Bulka’s inspired French cooking for a few years now, but for one reason or another I never made it. Unfortunately, I waited too long. Bulka left the Menlo Park restaurant a year ago to open an artisan pizzeria in Palo Alto.
But in a case of better late than never, I finally made it to Marché. I’m glad I waited so long. While I missed out on Bulka’s cooking, I got to bask in the glory of new executive chef Guillaume Bienaimé’s red-hot debut earlier this month. Better late than never indeed. More
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El Habanero brings Cuban food to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has Mexican restaurants in spades, but Cuban restaurants are a rarity. That’s why the opening of El Habanero in February got me all excited. The San Jose restaurant serves Mexican and Cuban food. The Mexican food may be good, but I didn’t bother with any of it other than the free (and mediocre) chips and salsa. I came for la comida Cubana. More
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