6 new restaurants in Palo Alto 😋

Steak, sushi, dumplings and more: The latest from Palo Alto’s dining scene

The sun is shining, the (steamed pork) buns are coming out.

This week I drove all over Palo Alto looking for new restaurants and made some pretty tasty discoveries: A Sausalito-based Brazilian steakhouse and a Sunnyvale-based fried chicken franchise are opening along El Camino, a dumpling restaurant (that serves insanely delicious xiao long bao) has opened downtown, and there are more new spots.

And good news for longtime patrons of Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! The popular Italian restaurant in Mountain View is back under a new name and new ambiance after a three-year renovation. Want something a little different? I spoke with Sean Kim and Joe Shin, co-owners of Amazing Katsu in Santa Clara, to find out what sets their katsu apart from the rest.

Stay delicious,
Adrienne

Here are the newest restaurants on the Palo Alto dining scene

Slurp fragrant broth from a steaming dumpling, order your tenth juicy steak, or grab a bowl of hearty gyros and cooling tzatziki. Here are the newcomers to Palo Alto’s restaurant scene.

A popular restaurant in Mountain View returns, Santa Clara gets a new ghost kitchen and two Italian restaurants close

• Longtime Mountain View Italian restaurant Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! has reopened its doors as Giorgio’s Italian Grill & Pizzeria.
• Amazing Katsu, a Japanese-Korean fusion restaurant with its own ghost kitchen, recently opened in Santa Clara.
• A San Francisco Bay Area food delivery company filed a nearly $50,000 lawsuit against Mike’s Diner Bar two days before the long-established restaurant was due to close for good.
• According to a recent Instagram post, Blue Dragon Pho in Half Moon Bay is closed every year from July 4th through Labor Day weekend.
• Left Bank Brasserie in Menlo Park celebrates Bastille Day on July 14 with live music, face painting, balloon art and sampling.
• Two Italian restaurants closed on June 22: the 52-year-old Fiorillo’s in Santa Clara and Pezzella’s Villa Napoli in Sunnyvale.

Tea leaf salad at Burma Taste

Fun fact about me: I love salad. So much that I crave it almost every day (and I eat it for lunch 90% of the time). There’s something so satisfying about its refreshing crunch and the way each component of the salad comes into its own. Caesar salad and Cobb are rightfully on most menus, but I feel like we don’t give enough love to one of my absolute favorite salads: tea leaf salad.

If you have never had Burmese food, I strongly recommend that you stop reading this newsletter and head to the nearest Burmese restaurant, be it Rangoon Ruby in Palo Alto, Burma Love in Menlo Park, Burma Spice in Redwood City, or Burma Taste in Sunnyvale (where I got my last tea leaf salad).

Tea leaf salad is uniquely funky in the best way, with a dressing made from fermented green tea leaves that adds an earthy, mild flavor that leaves you wanting more. Alongside the crisp romaine lettuce and diced jalapenos, an abundance of flavorful, crunchy bits add interesting texture to the salad—think refried yellow beans, garlic chips, peanuts, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds.

Top tip: Tea leaf salad is traditionally served with shredded dried prawns, if you’re vegetarian just ask for it to be made without (it will still taste great).

Burma taste124 S Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale; 650-789-5182, Instagram: @burmataste. Open: Monday to Thursday 11am-2.30pm and 4.30pm-9.30pm, Saturday 11am-9.30pm and Sunday 11am-9pm

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