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About this blog: 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 jo...
(More)About this blog: 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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Cooking Papa opens third location in Mountain View
Uploaded: May 20, 2014
A small South Bay restaurant group running Cantonese restaurants has opened its newest location in Mountain View.
Cooking Papa opened its doors Monday, May 19, restoring life to the former Sizzler space at
1962 El Camino Real. In 2012, the site was a point of contention in Mountain View, with residents
lamenting the loss of Sizzler and the City Council eventually
voting against allowing a Chick-Fil-A to take over the space and open with a drive-through.
The Cooking Papa menu is exhaustive, with dim sum, appetizers, soup, clay pot dishes,
13 kinds of fried rice, multiple versions of congee (rice porridge) and many
traditional Cantonese entrees. You can wash all of that down with Hong Kong-style milk tea, boba or beer, among
other drink options.
The Mountain View outpost joins two other Cooking Papa's, with the original in Santa Clara (opened in 2010) and a second in Foster City (opened in 2011).
Cooking Papa
1962 El Camino Real, Mountain View
650-988-6809
www.mycookingpapa.com
Hours: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 to 9:45 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 to 9:30 p.m.
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