April introduced an abundance of notable new locations to eat and drink on the Peninsula and the South Bay. Extra bakeries arrived, together with the favored Little Sky Bakery in Menlo Park and Manresa Bread in Palo Alto, plus contemporary choices for Caribbean meals, Hawaiian shave ice and edomae-style Japanese fare. In the meantime, in beer-centric San Jose, a brand new taproom is brewing uncommon creations with sweet cap mushrooms and blue corn.
Palo Alto buying heart City & Nation Village is residence to the fourth and latest outpost of Manresa Bread, the popular bakery spin-off of Michelin-starred restaurant Manresa. Head to the bakery for accomplice and head baker Avery Ruzicka’s wonderful breads and pastries that incorporate house-milled grains like rye and crimson and white wheat flours. Past sweets, savory gadgets embody a breakfast sandwich with onion jam and baguettes stuffed with prosciutto, herb butter and pickled greens. The Palo Alto location joins others in Los Gatos, Los Altos and Campbell.
855 El Camino Actual, Ste. 138, Palo Alto. manresabread.com
A brand new residence for naturally leavened bread
Little Sky Bakery is now promoting contemporary bread out of a everlasting area in Menlo Park. Above is of course leavened raisin-walnut bread (left) and seeded stone-ground complete wheat.
Elena Kadvany/The ChronicleLittle Sky Bakery, a staple at farmers’ markets all through the Peninsula and South Bay, is now promoting contemporary bread and massive cookies out of a permanent home in Menlo Park. Every thing proprietor Tian Mayimin bakes is of course leavened, from twisted, golden loaves of cinnamon raisin ache de mie to onion-Parmesan bialys. Quickly, Mayimin will open a restaurant throughout the road with extra meals, together with naturally leavened dumplings and pizza.
506 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. littleskybakery.com
Tokemoana’s strikes to San Mateo
Redwood City Polynesian restaurant Tokemoana’s has relocated to San Mateo. The bigger location is serving dishes like lu sipi, bone-in lamb slow-cooked in coconut milk and spices, and Polynesian-style curry with hen and potatoes. It’s one of many Bay Space’s few Polynesian eating places.
4000 S. El Camino Actual, Unit B, San Mateo. tokemoanas.square.site
Chef’s fast-casual offshoot debuts at Peninsula meals corridor
Complete chickens marinated in kashundi, a inexperienced mango and mustard relish, prepare dinner within the rotisserie oven at Little Blue Door in Los Altos.
Supplied by Gourmand GroupLittle Blue Door, from the group behind Palo Alto’s standard Ettan, is now serving Kerala fried chicken and spiced egg puffs inside State Street Market in Los Altos. The informal Cal-Indian counter spot is the brainchild of Michelin-starred chef Sri Gopinathan and Ettan proprietor Ayesha Thapar. It’s the newest restaurant to open on the meals corridor, additionally residence to Traci Des Jardins’ new El Alto.
170 State St., Los Altos. statestreetmarket.com
S.F. homeowners open edomae-style sister restaurant
The homeowners of San Francisco’s Sasa Japanese Restaurant have expanded to the Peninsula with Sushi Jin in Mountain View. It’s an edomae-style restaurant, targeted on sushi made with cured or handled seafood (like on the acclaimed Sushi Yoshuzimi in San Mateo). The menu contains chef’s selection nigiri, scallop crudo flavored with miso and yuzu, and Wagyu beef croquettes, amongst different dishes. Contained in the glossy, wood-filled area on Rengstorff Avenue, diners who sit on the 10-seat sushi bar get a full view of the open kitchen.
580 N Rengstorff Ave
., Ste. J, Mountain View. sushijinmtv.com
A San Francisco Indian spot expands
Tilak, a neighborhood Indian restaurant in San Francisco, selected Menlo Park for its second location. Within the former Una Mas area on Santa Cruz Avenue, Tilak is serving all the pieces from tandoori-cooked greens to butter hen and masala-spiced racks of lamb. It’s the only real Indian restaurant in downtown Menlo Park.
683 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. tilakmenlopark.com
Fluffy shave ice arrives in San Jose
Bowls of gloriously colourful dragon fruit and guava shave ice are the main target on the newly open Pau Hana in San Jose’s Japantown. Prospects can customise the Hawaiian dessert with drizzles of condensed milk, boba pearls or a scoop of ube ice cream. Particular flavors embody Mexican mangonada and halo halo, the traditional Filipino dessert.
248 Jackson St., San Jose. instagram.com/pauhanashaveiceco
San Jose will get a Caribbean restaurant
Sluggish-cooked oxtail with rice and peas from Island Style, a brand new Caribbean restaurant in San Jose.
Courtesy Kory Botkin / WDS VisualsJamaican patties, fried goat with plantains and pimento-smoked jerk hen are on the menu at Island Style, the South Bay’s latest Caribbean restaurant. Homeowners Marc and Dorianne St Fleur, the youngsters of Caribbean immigrants, introduced in Jamaican chef Imani Manning to create the menu. Past staple dishes from Jamaica and Haiti, there are twists like oxtail tacos or Tuesday-only jerk hen burritos.
225 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose. islandtastegrill.com
A brand new Stanford artwork museum cafe debuts
Tootsie’s, from the chef and proprietor of Palo Alto Italian favourite Vina Enoteca, has a brand new outpost at Stanford College’s Cantor Arts Middle. Head to the museum cafe for panino sandwiches on house-made focaccia, panzanella salad and contemporary pastas like fusilli cacio e pepe. Proprietor Rocco Scordella took over the campus area after famous chef Jesse Cool’s longtime Cool Cafe closed within the fall.
328 Lomita Drive, Stanford College. tootsiesbarn.com/location/stanford
A South Bay taproom with an uncommon focus
Felipe Bravo and Wendy Neff are behind Fox Story Fermentation Mission in San Jose, a brand new brewery that comes with wholesome, fermented vegatables and fruits into its beers.
Courtesy Ginger FiersteinAt Fox Story Fermentation Mission in San Jose, beer is brewed with stunning substances like dried sweet cap mushrooms, blue corn and ume plums. The brand new taproom is run by a pair with a ardour for brewing and fermented meals: Felipe Bravo, the previous manufacturing supervisor for Fort Point Beer Co.’s analysis and growth group, and accomplice Wendy Neff, who labored as a chef on Fb’s “superfoods” group. Fermented creations like beet high sauerkraut, preserved Meyer lemons and fermented escabeche additionally make their means into Fox Story’s meals.
30 E. Santa Clara St., Ste. 120, San Jose. foxtalefermentationproject.com
A well-liked San Jose espresso store expands
San Jose’s Nirvana Soul has opened a second location in Cupertino. The espresso store is thought for its drinks with twists, together with a banana chai and ube latte made with espresso beans roasted in-house. For meals, there are pastries, candy potato pies and waffles in flavors like churro and chorizo-cheese. Homeowners, sisters and San Jose natives Jeronica Macey and Be’Anka Ashaolu additionally host poetry and comedy nights and spotlight native artists within the cafe.
19700 Vallco Parkway, Cupertino. nirvanasoulcoffee.com
Elena Kadvany is a San Francisco Chronicle employees author. E-mail: elena.kadvany@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ekadvany
