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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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The owner of a Cupertino Chinese restaurant has snagged an open space at Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center in Palo Alto and plans to open a new restaurant there in early 2016.
Jun Zhao, who owns Shanghai Garden in Cupertino, is behind Chef Zhao Kitchen, currently under construction in Suite 120 at Edgewood Plaza. His wife, Hong Xia, said Monday that many patrons of the Cupertino restaurant live in the Palo Alto area and have been asking them to open another location.
Above: Chef Zhao Kitchen, currently under construction at Edgewood Plaza Suite 120 in Palo Alto. Photo by Elena Kadvany/Palo Alto Weekly.
The Shanghai Garden
menu is large, with many traditional Chinese dishes -- soups, noodles, fried rice, dumplings, meat and fish entrees. The restaurant also serves weekend dim sum. Chef Zhao Kitchen will be a similar Chinese restaurant, Xia said.
They’re hoping to be open by February 2016, Xia said. Stay tuned for updates.
Edgewood Plaza, located near U.S. Hwy. 101, has been
recently renovated and populated with new shops and eateries, including
House of Bagels (formerly located on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto), Starbucks, nail salon, fitness studio and Supercuts. A large grocery store space is still vacant following
Fresh Market’s departure in March.
Chef Zhao Kitchen, a new Chinese restaurant, will open in 2016 at the recently revitalized Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center in Palo Alto. Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Weekly.
