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Old Ironsides Cafe
The ground floor of a typically dull office park might not be where you’d expect to find some darn good, authentic Greek fare, but Santa Clara’s Old Ironsides Cafe (located just off Great America Parkway north of Highway 101, and about a quarter mile south of the Old Ironsides lightrail station) has been [...]
Stacks’ All-American Breakfast & Lunch
Located in the heart of old downtown Campbell, Stacks cheerfully serves up such a delish, reasonably priced breakfast that you’ll easily understand why the small, four-strong chain has been winning Best-Breakfast awards throughout the Bay Area for over a decade.
Enduring the long wait inside for seating is pleasant torture as aromatic [...]
St. John’s Restaurant
Don’t be fooled by the divine-sounding name and the halo-adorning monk on the streetside signage; St. John’s Restaurant ain’t no frilly salad bar or frou-frou, scone-serving tearoom. The popular bar and grill dishes up heart attacks waiting to happen — high-fat, high-salt, high-calorie, grilled foods served in paper-lined plastic baskets and eaten by [...]
House of Chu
At least once a month my wife tells me that if I could eat Asian food every day, I would. I daresay she’s right. I have feasted on all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ in Vienna, Thai curries in London, and most recently Chow Mein in Santo Domingo; I seem drawn to the flavors of the [...]
Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina
Located just off Highway 101 at the Great America Parkway exit, Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina is one of the few large, established restaurants at which you are guaranteed to receive authentic Mexican fare without having to trek 500 miles south to Tijuana.
Hungry? Assuming you don’t fill up on the endless supply of [...]
Fresh Ketch
Our dining experience at the Fresh Ketch was one of those unfortunate visits where just about everything seemed to go wrong. The clam chowder (billed on their menu as a “thick and creamy”, “award-winning” house specialty) was remarkably thin and bland; granted, they had just run out when we arrived and had made a [...]
Cape Point Hotel
The Breakfast Cafe, not far from the unobtrusive hotel lobby, is surprisingly small but serves up good, competitive-quality, inexpensive food. For only $29, we fed a family of four with a hearty breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, hot chocolates, and juices. Business was slow mid-morning during the week, so service was quick [...]
We were lucky enough to acquire four tickets to the prescreening of Ice Age II: The Meltdown yesterday. Despite the fact that we had about ten minutes notice to get ready and head out (the movie started at 10:00 a.m., we received the tickets at 9:25 a.m., and the theatre was almost 20 minutes away [...]
OK, so this is the first of the alphabetic series where the letter of the alphabet does not represent a key word in the title of the work. I knew I’d have a hard time finding great classics with Q, J, X, and other high-value Scrabble tiles, so I began the exception with the Catcher [...]
