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We’ve all been eager for longer light-filled days, warmer temps and fun excuses to get outside, especially with the pandemic limiting springtime gatherings for the last couple of years. Here are 15 events we’re especially looking forward to — the first one’s tomorrow! Featuring Gamble Garden’s Spring Tour, Silicon Valley Open Studios and more!
Off the Grid’s seasonal food truck markets are back in #MenloPark and #FosterCity every Wednesday starting tonight. Get the delicious details on what they’ll be serving:
Three years ago, chess player Evgeny Shtembuliak was enjoying the most successful year of his career. He won the World Junior Chess Championship and achieved the title of grandmaster. Now, essentially retired from competitive chess, Shtembuliak has an entirely different focus: reuniting with his family, supporting his war-torn home country #Ukraine and imparting life lessons on young chess players of all levels, including kids who took part in a chess camp in #PaloAlto March 26-27:
Erin Gleeson’s latest cookbook, “The Forest Feast Road Trip,” coincidentally arrives at a time when the #pandemic has popularized traveling by car. The work inspires wanderlust through a journey around California, including stops at 10 stunning vacation homes ranging from a cabin on a lavender farm to a yurt with an outdoor kitchen overlooking Los Angeles.
However, the #Woodside resident makes one thing clear: Her latest work is a personal journal of lessons learned and recipes inspired by #California, not a guidebook:
About 40 local private home and public gardens landscaped with #California native plants will be open to the public for free, in-person tours this weekend as part of the 20th annual Growing Natives Garden Tour. Here are 10 you don’t want to miss:
Our food writer Anthony Shu sat down with star chef Traci Des Jardins and chef de cuisine Robert Hurtado ahead of el Alto’s opening today in #LosAltos and talked about the menu, how they experienced Mexican food growing up and the evolving landscape for Mexican cuisine in America:
Ever wonder what our food writer is eating lately? From bone-in ribeye at Town in #SanCarlos to veggie huaraches at Los Carnalitos, check out Anthony’s roundup of his recent meals:
After shutting down for nearly two months in early spring 2020 during the initial #COVID-19 lockdowns, the local real estate market has come roaring back with surprising resiliency. So what happens next? See what Penindula real estate agents have to say:
Inside Palo Alto’s newest chocolate shop @shekohconfections, two aprons from the prestigious l’École Valrhona, a professional pastry training program in France, hang on the wall. A plaque boasts that gaining admission to the program is as hard as breaking into a bank vault. However, when owner Shekoh Moossavi discusses her trip to France that took place 10 years ago, she portrays the accomplishment as an escape more than an achievement.
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Photos by @itsmagalig
You have less than a week to submit your photos to our annual Peninsula Photo Contest! Winners will be displayed in @paloaltoonline, TheSixFifty and be part of a @paloaltoartcenter exhibition! Enter your photos by Monday at peninsulacontest2022.artcall.org.
Memories of growing up in Hunucmá, Mexico, surrounded by #Maya communities inspire Ed Correa’s menu showcasing Indigenous cuisine at Mayan Kitchen in #Sunnyvale. Through his partnership with Katie Voong, managing partner of K Tea Cafe, a bubble tea and jianbing shop, Correa’s cooking has evolved to reach a wider audience, even though it has meant making changes that his family’s matriarchs would disapprove of.
Boichik Bagels is coming to #PaloAlto! 🥯After a glowing writeup in the New York Times and the announcement of plans to open a bagel factory, owner Emily Winston and her team are starting off 2022 with more big news. Winston is bringing her acclaimed #Berkeley business to Palo Alto's Town & Country this summer. With a menu filled of bagel sandwiches, chocolate iced coffee and outside dining options available, this new location is sure to bring the crowds.