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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 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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Local restaurants snag Michelin Bib Gourmand status
Uploaded: Oct 18, 2016
Two Palo Alto restaurants and one in Redwood City again made the Michelin guide's Bib Gourmand list, which honors eateries that serve high-quality food at an affordable price.
Palo Alto French restaurant
Zola, Palo Alto Greek mainstay Evvia and Redwood City pizza and small-plates restaurant
Vesta made the guide's 2017 list, which was released Tuesday. The designation is granted to restaurants that serve two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less (tax and gratuity not included).
All three local restaurants were awarded Bib Gourmand
status last year, Zola for the first time.
They are among few South Bay restaurants on the 2017 Bib Gourmand list, which highlights 75 restaurants total throughout the Bay Area, including 12 newcomers.
The only other South Bay restaurants on the list this year are the Bywater in Los Gatos and Orchard City Kitchen in Campbell. View the full list
here.
Bib Gourmand restaurants are selected by Michelin's anonymous, trained food inspectors.
"Most telling about these selections is the fact that they are very often the same restaurants that the Michelin food inspectors frequent themselves when off the clock," a press release announcing the 2017 list states.
Michelin's sought-after stars will be announced next week, on Oct. 25, with the release of the organization’s 2017 guide. Bib Gourmand restaurants are not eligible to receive stars.
Last year, local restaurants Baumè in Palo Alto, The Village Pub in Woodside and Chez TJ in Mountain View all
held onto their stars.
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