Santa Clara

After lunch in Koreatown, we continued along El Camino Real to Portuguese Bakery in Mervyn’s Plaza to buy malasadas. The style here is heavy, eggy and very chewy, sprinkled with sugar – hit the sp...

by Melanie Wong 7 months ago

Three weeks ago on my way south, I pulled off in Santa Clara to grab a quick lunch at the newish Chicken Meets Rice. A specialist in Hainan chicken rice, it does a huge business in lunch take-out k...

Does anyone know how to make this? There's kale, some kind of tofu product (okara), garlic, sesame oil. There's something in the sauce I can't make out. I don't think they cook/blanch the kale.

by hhc 4 years ago

Read that Burma Bistro is now open and there are 3 reviews on Yelp. Any hounds been yet? Burma Bistro 2135 El Camino Real, Santa Clara Website: http://www.burmabistro.net/index.html

by Melanie Wong 4 years ago

Before yesterday's meeting at SCU, I had a few minutes to check out Chromatic Coffee Co. recommended by poser and ssfire. It's just off the Lawrence Expressway and Hwy 280. I was set on a kouig...

by Melanie Wong 5 years ago

Driving down El Camino Real on Saturday night, I noticed a line of folks waiting outside Radhe Chaat, just a little bit east of Lawrence. The online menu includes Indo Chinese, Gujarati and Maharas...

Looking for a place that has good saimin and wonton min. We keep strIking out. Any suggestions?

by Melanie Wong 3 years ago

Yesterday five chowhounds hit the Din Tai Fung in the Valley Fair mall for lunch. It was a first visit for each of us to the newest branch of this Taiwanese chain though some of us have been to...

by psb 5 years ago

Hi, can anybody recommend a cafe in the South Bay. Desired Parameters: --I mean a non-Starbucks where I can work on my laptop or read papers for 2 hours. I have my own wireless, but it would be...

by Melanie Wong 3 years ago

Driving on Lawrence Expy last week, I noticed signs for ChiMek near the intersection with Homestead, cattycorner from the Kaiser campus. I'd never heard the word "chimek" until I saw Seoul 2Go Bist...

It appears that DTF will come to Santa Clara's Westfield Valley Mall in October. It will seat about 200 people.

I was visiting Pacifica and found that Mazetti's Bakery had the perfect Hot Cross Buns. http://www.mazzettisbakery.com I look forward to Lent because bakeries make these tasty treats. Anyone kno...

by Melanie Wong 3 years ago

Leichi opened a few months ago, taking over Hoshi's spot. The neon sign for Hoshi is still up. Inside, the interior is now sleeker and more modern and urban in feeling than Hoshi, and the cooking i...

by tanspace 12 years ago

Just a heads up on the last chance this season to get the old fashionedh roasted sweet yam in Santa Clara. I had not expected to taste it again in the US until I found that there’s a place that ...