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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Some detail-oriented diners might have noticed that Terrone, the "pizzeria-ristorante-bar" that opened in February this year at 448 S. California Ave. in Palo Alto, has disappeared ? in name at least.
What was formerly Terrone (a derogatory term that refers to south Italian farmers) is now Terún, which has the same meaning but is a northern Italian dialect, said owner Franco Campilongo.
Campilongo said the restaurant made the switch after finding out that a Canada-based company, which owns
numerous Italian restaurants in Toronto and two in Los Angeles, had trademarked the name "Terroni."
Apparently, Terrone's ending vowel "wasn't different enough," Campilongo said.
"I didn't want to waste my money and time fighting it," he added.
And voilà, Terrone became Terún, with a new
sign and new
website (though a small piece of paper with "Terrone" typed above the restaurant's hours does remain hanging to the left of the front door, as of today).
