By Elena Kadvany
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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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Time for even more holiday sweets: Top Chef desserts winner Yigit Pura's Tout Sweet Patisserie will be opening at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto Friday, Dec. 26.
Pura opened his first Tout Sweet in Macy's Union Square in San Francisco two years ago. The Palo Alto outpost will be similar, but with a smaller space ? about 500 square feet squeezed between Sushi House and Belcampo Meat Co. ? the menu will be more limited. Tout Sweet serves up macarons, marshmallows, cookies, brittles, cakes, tarts, parfaits, jams, fruit pates and the like. The signature Petit Tout Sweet is a layered flourless chocolate cake with candied milk jam and chocolate pearls. Here's the patisserie
menu to get an idea.
Palo Alto will also sell frozen doughs for those who want to make Pura's creations at home.
Read more about the Tout Sweet backstory in my first post on the patisserie's opening
here.
Tout Sweet Patisserie, now open at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto.
