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 [...]
If you want great Italian food at a reasonable price, you can’t go wrong with Pasta Pomodoro’s newest restaurant, located in San Jose’s Santana Row. I came early to avoid the lunch crowd, but the popular restaurant already had a small waiting list. Even so, I was seated very quickly.
The visit started out a [...]
I’ve had my financial hat on for the last couple of days, entering in data into Quicken and QuickBooks in preparation for the annual festival known as Tax Season — kind of like Wabbit Season, just without the cute cartoon characters, and with a lot more Excedrin Migraine. When you let things go without reconciling [...]
