Silicon Valley Foodie

An Ember & Oak Alum Is Opening a 22-Seat Pasta Bar Downtown

Filo takes over the former Aster space on South First in September, with a menu of eight pastas and almost nothing else.

Ranked after four months, thirty-one bowls, and one genuinely regrettable Tuesday. Updated July 2026.

Twelve courses in Los Altos that never once ask you to be impressed. After three visits, that restraint is the most radical thing on the peninsula.

A Mountain View pop-up lets a language model write the menu each morning. The concept is exhausting. The cooking, inconveniently, is not.

One email each Friday: the week’s openings, one review, and where we are eating this weekend.

The Los Gatos institution cited a rent increase of nearly 40 percent. The final service is scheduled for September 27.

A stiff, cold-tolerant starter you can neglect for eleven days without killing it, plus the loaf to make when you resurface.

Five places within fifteen minutes of campus where two people can eat properly for under $50. Updated July 2026.

Lin leaves the Palo Alto restaurant after five years. Sous chef Adaeze Nwosu is promoted, and the menu is staying put — for now.

One pan, one bowl, and a dressing that makes almost any vegetable in your refrigerator taste deliberate.

Fourteen seats, one seating a night, and a chef who has been refining the same twenty dishes for nineteen years. Book six weeks out.

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