Food & Dining
Where to eat in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, reported from menus, records and on-the-record sources: restaurant reviews, openings and closings, food news, guides, and the markets and producers behind local food.
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Día de los Muertos on the Peninsula and South Bay: the seasonal dishes and food-friendly celebrations on the calendar
From pan de muerto and mole negro in downtown San José to free festivals at History Park and Courthouse Square, a reported guide to where the holiday’s foods and gatherings are listed this year.
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The Reported Table: Plumed Horse, Saratoga’s souffle-and-cellar institution, by the record
A $225 chef’s tasting, a souffle Michelin calls essential and a wine list with a decade of Grand Awards: what the published record says about Saratoga’s Plumed Horse.
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Santa Clara County inspectors closed 18 food businesses in October; all but one cited vermin
County records show 18 closure orders at restaurants, markets and other food sites from Oct. 1 to Oct. 23. Five had no reopening date posted as of Oct. 24, and one Sunnyvale restaurant has now been…
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The Reported Table: Protégé, Palo Alto’s Michelin-starred room on California Avenue, by the record
The first installment of the Chronicle’s new restaurant column reads Protégé through its October menus, its prices, its owners’ résumés and what other critics have published.
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Openings & Closings: Hedley Club returns to Hotel De Anza, SPARK Social lands in Creekside, Lutticken’s bows out
A downtown San Jose hotel bar reopens under an acclaimed restaurant team, a food-truck park opens near Diridon, and a 45-year Menlo Park deli closes. The South Bay and Peninsula food comings and goings for late…
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Your fall and winter guide to Santa Clara County’s farmers’ markets
Most of the county’s certified farmers’ markets keep running year-round. Here is where and when to find them, day by day, with the schedule changes to know before you go.
