Santa Clara

New ownership appears to have killed this place. It had been one of our favorites in the Bay Area. Today, bbq pork belly was tough and nothing like the traditional quality here, shrimp wontons had ...

Trying to have some fun during all of this. I’m drinking all my beer for starters. I see a seafood blitzkrieg in my future. I have lots of tuna and salmon. I’ll be pulling out my two burner Cam...

by Civil Bear 6 months ago

Hi, I'll be in Santa Clara this weekend competing in a BBQ contest, and will have some time for a couple of quick dinners. Does anyone have any "better than SF" Indian or Viet or Korean, etc. sp...

by Melanie Wong 6 months ago

Late report from a dinner in April 2017 to respond to a request for more intell for Santa Clara . . . Kami Korean Kitchen was memorable for the homestyle cooking. Not so warm and fuzzy a feeling at...

by Cicely 8 months ago

Melanie, Marc, and I met up for dinner at this new Korean restaurant, I with a 10-year-old in tow. Melanie had given us the heads-up that this place was in its soft opening period, and I was easily...

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 1 year 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 5 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...