After 30 years in business, Mountain View’s Country Gourmet restaurant is set to close on Sunday, May 19.
Manager Eddie Shaw said the restaurant’s building at the corner of Rengtsorff Avenue and El Camino Real had been sold and may reopen soon as another restaurant. The building was sold by the Shaw family trust because of “increasing overhead costs and the retirement of both sons” of founder Herman Shaw, who originally built it as a Burger Barn in 1966.
Sunnyvale’s Country Gourmet, which serves a slightly different menu, will remain open as it is no longer owned by the Shaw family. It doesn’t serve the popular banana french toast however, which will surely be a disappointment for regular patrons in Mountain View.
—Daniel DeBolt
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