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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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Mixx shutters in Mountain View
Uploaded: Aug 17, 2015
Mixx, the casual fusion eatery that
replaced longtime Castro Street restaurant Scott's Seafood last year, has closed, co-owner Billy Berkowitz confirmed Monday.
Berkowitz, who owns Max's World (of Max's Opera Cafe at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto and San Francisco, among others) partnered with Scott's Seafood Mountain View owner Steve Mayer last year to open Mixx. Scott's Seafood had operated at the 420 Castro St. space for 11 years.
Berkowitz and Mayer revamped the physical space and reinvented the menu,
opening Mixx in September. The menu was wide-reaching, including American, Italian, Thai, soul food, Mediterranean, Chinese, Japanese and more. Mixx also served craft cocktails, with some spirits steeped in "infusion jars" and then aged for 21 days in oak barrels.
Besides a large dining room and bar, Mixx also offered a game room stocked with games, a shuffleboard table and TVs. Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Online.
"We put a lot of effort into it," Berkowitz wrote in an email Monday. "The bar and happy hour was busy from the get go. The restaurant was not busy enough and despite any efforts, we could not build the sales to make it worth staying there.
"At the end of the day, I guess no one liked it so why eat our heart out over the place," he wrote. "We're very disappointed as we thought that location had lots of potential."
Read our
review of Mixx from March.
No word on who might lay claim to the prominent Castro Street location; stay tuned.
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