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Peninsula Dining Update: New Coastal Restaurants, a Hofbrau, and Pizza in Palo Alto

Just in time for the summer beach season, a few new destinations have opened up along the coast. In Pacifica, the 140-seat Puerto 27 is now open inside the Pacifica Beach Hotel. The Peruvian-style cuisine comes courtesy of Jose Calvo-Perez, most recently of Pasion in San Francisco's Sunset District. ... More >>

Taste Testing Chipotle's New Patrón Silver Margarita

Chipotle has always offered margaritas, but they've recently ditched the pre-made mix in favor of freshly made drinks and stepping up the liquor offerings. Now customers can wash down their burrito bowl with a $6.95 margarita made with Patrón Silver tequila, triple sec, fresh lime and lemon juices, ... More >>

Caltrain Kills Man, Major Delays During Morning Commute

Caltrain is reporting brutal delays this morning after a train down in Palo Alto hit and killed a pedestrian. Caltrain Spokeswoman Christine Dunn says that at about 6:50 a.m., a #211 train headed north hit a man at Charleston Road in Palo Alto. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The trains ... More >>

Elvis: Where to Eat Like Him on His Birthday

Need an excuse to go crazy on the carbs today? It's Elvis Presley's 78th birthday and at least one Bay Area restaurant is breaking out the extra calories to celebrate. Get ready for the holy trinity of his favorite flavors -- peanut butter, bacon, and banana -- re-imagined in often obscenely good an ... More >>

Palo Alto Mulls Medical Marijuana, With Conservative Backing

It's a fine town, but Palo Alto is a bit one-dimensional. There's nearby Stanford, and nearby Silicon Valley (fine, that's two dimensions), but not much else is happening in that Peninsula city.But what about medical marijuana? The city could become the first San Mateo County municipality to allow m ... More >>

Sample Beer and Burgers at SliderBar, Opening Tomorrow

Tomorrow Palo Alto's SliderBar Cafe will celebrate the grand opening of its second location in the former Criolla Kitchen space at Market and 16th. When we discovered that the beer menu was crafted by Certified Cicerone Eric Cripe (of the Jug Shop), we hustled over to the Castro for some beer and sl ... More >>

Facebook's Security Guard Allegedly Ransacks HQ, Steals 49 Laptops

Facebook's own security guard and a cohort were "checked in" to jail after the pair allegedly broke into the social-networking site's former headquarters and made off with dozens of company laptops.  According to press reports, 20-year-old Brandon Simon and 21-year-old Travis Calhoun were arres ... More >>

Palo Alto Breast Fondler Strikes Again

The wanted groper in Palo Alto may have resurfaced yesterday with his unwanted behavior.  A woman, who was only described as in her 20s, was jogging through El Palo Alto Park near 102 Palo Alto Ave just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday when a man grabbed her from behind, according to police. Also See ... More >>

Bay Area Breast Fondler on the Loose

Police are looking for a man who is wanted in connection with grabbing women's breasts and buttocks as they walked through Palo Alto in broad daylight.According to press reports, the latest incident occurred on Wednesday when a man stepped out between two cars, walked toward a woman, and grabbed her ... More >>

Newspaper Drama in the South Bay Gives Other Newspapers Something to Write About

There's nothing we enjoy more than a petty newspaper fight, especially one that includes the phrase "put down the news rack."Down in the South Bay, the San Jose Mercury News was busted with news racks from competing papers inside a dumpster at the Merc's headquarters, including those belonging to th ... More >>

Maestro Nears, Mixt Greens Expansion Plans, and Cafe 780's Rent

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The construction transformation is almost complete, and Maestro is nearing its opening date. Inside Scoop reports the French restaurant, in the former Trader Vic's and Stars space, is slated to open in a ... More >>

Dandelion Chocolate: The Return of Bean-to-Bar in SF

​Bean-to-bar chocolate is tough to do authentically, and SF hasn't had a local B2B producer of note since Scharffen Berger shut down their facility, but here's some good news: Dandelion is a weed worth watching. Starting out as some folks in a garage in East Palo Alto, these chocolateiers hav ... More >>

Vegan Foie Gras: Rau Om's Tofu Misozuke Matches Tastiness With Principles

​It smells like a Japanese restaurant, looks like a loaf of foie, and delivers a taste reminiscent of foie lathered in mayonnaise. Rau Om's Tofu Misozuke, made in Belmont, is about as close to foie gras as a vegan can ever taste without violating principle.Tofu Misozuke uses Miso Cured Tofu, made ... More >>

Facebook Unveils Partnerships with Music Services, New Social Listening Features

​ Facebook wants to publicize your music listening. The Palo Alto social networking giant unveiled a host of new features at its f8 development conference today in San Francisco -- among them, new ways to tell your friends what you're listening to and check out what they're listening to.

Free Scream Sorbet for One Day

Erin Kunkel/New York Times​ Free Scream Sorbet Where: Ferry Building When: Wednesday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Free! Scream Sorbet is a favorite of farmers' market denizens throughout the Bay area, and on Sept. 7, you can get it free. The Cooking Channel's ice cream truck will make a ... More >>

Izak Jesus Garcia-Lopez, Baby Shot to Death, Update: Police Arrest Teenager

One arrested ​UPDATE: Police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of shooting and killing a infant Sunday morning. They say the teenager was seeking revenge for being the target of a beating in May. However, police claim the shooting was a case of mistaken identity. According to media outlets, ... More >>

Baia to Open in Old Town Oakland, Shabu Pub Replaces Mazu

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop, following an Oakland Trib tip, reports that Edward Higgins ― the Four Seasons Palo Alto chef whose resume is illustrated with a few glittery NYT stars ― is opening Baia (46 ... More >>

Giants' World Series Trophy in City Hall Tomorrow

You think he was there for the trophy or the supes meeting? ​The confluence of the current Board of Supervisors' final meeting and a two-day stopover by the Giants' World Series trophy portends for large crowds in City Hall over the next several days. Expect lots of wild clothing and boisterous sp ... More >>

Poquito Sneaks Into the Dogpatch, Three Seasons Departs the Marina

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Only two short bits of gossip, though of course they represent massive events in the lives of the restaurateurs: Carolyn A. at Eater SF discovers the existence of a new tapas restaurant i ... More >>

James Franco's short fiction shows promise, but little else

James Franco's writing debut casts his native Palo Alto as a cold.

James Franco's "Palo Alto" is a cold, empty place — except for the weed

Fall Arts: A few books of local interest

Google Bike Directions Fail: Quickest Route from Palo Alto to San Francisco Is 150 Turns?

Bicycling to Palo Alto may not be easy via Google directions​We noted back in March, when Google's much-anticipated bicycle-directions function first launched, that the program had some glitches. (Among them was its apparent ignorance, in certain cases, of the famous San Francisco hill-avoiding bi ... More >>

Legislators, Lawyers Winning Fight to Render Red Light Cameras Useless

Bill would make it easier to get away with this​Red light-runners are winning a battle to render camera evidence less incriminating in court, the Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters reports.Sen. Joe Simitian, who represents Palo Alto and San Jose commuters under the watch of the dozens of cameras mo ... More >>

Tomorrow: S.F. Food Carts Take a Field Trip Down the Peninsula

Tamara PalmerYou deserve it, dear Peninsula.​Local homies Crème Brûlée Cart and Magic Curry Kart are heading south tomorrow afternoon for a rare field trip to the Peninsula, where they'll sell lunch in front of fashion e-commerce site Moxsie (120 Hawthorne at High, Palo Alto) from 11:30 a.m ... More >>

Peking Duck Worth Leaving Town For

Please don't call it "quack." ​The idea of San Franciscans skipping town for the singular purpose of eating Chinese food is a little silly ― like Canadians driving to Phoenix to go skiing. From Shanghai soup dumplings to Islamic hot pots, this city's offerings stretch far beyond the battered ... More >>

Cougars Ahoy! Women On the Prowl For Younger Men are Headed to San Francisco.

Daniel C. BrittDrool Brittania: British cougars Rita Sangha (left), 39, and Bea Cameron, 45, make nice to the camera during August's "National Cougar Convention" ​Do people complain to Rich Gosse about the use of the term "cougar" -- previously applied to a 1970s-era muscle car and, of course, a b ... More >>

Cougars (Yes, That Kind!) To Converge on South Bay For National Cougar Convention

Looking for fresh meat​Insert a feline roar here. Later this month, in a spectacle that will surely be much-anticipated by single dudes striking out with chicks their own age, older single women from across the country will gather at Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto for an event billing itself as ... More >>

Tour de France Brought to You By ... A Palo Alto Biotech Startup?

​Officially speaking, the Tour de France -- which finished Sunday in Paris -- was brought to you by sponsors Carrefour supermarkets, Skoda cars and Vittel bottled water. Behind the scenes however, the physiology-defying, mountaintop-finish action of the race through the Pyrenees and the Alps may h ... More >>

Road Trip Pit Stop: Beltramo's

... has one of the broadest selections of liqueurs anywhere.

Massive Law Firm to San Francisco Attorneys: 'Guess What? You're All Going to East Palo Alto'

"It's a hard time to be a lawyer, no doubt about it." "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- Henry VI, Act IV, Scene III. Mr. Shakespeare was wrong in his chronology. The first thing you do, if you want to kill the lawyers, is kill the economy. Then the attorneys will wither and die ... More >>

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Purported DNA Evidence of Bigfoot to Be Revealed in Palo Alto Friday

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