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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...
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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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San Francisco chef to open Menlo Park restaurant
Uploaded: Aug 9, 2017
Greg Kuzia-Carmel, who has cooked in the kitchens of notable restaurants from Per Se in New York to Cotogna, Quince and Outerlands in San Francisco, is opening a restaurant in Menlo Park, he confirmed Tuesday.
Kuzia-Carmel is behind
Camper Restaurant. He declined to state where he plans to open or to provide further details about the restaurant concept.
"We are still working on negotiations but I can say when those sort we will move very swiftly to bring our vision online," he wrote in an email.
After earning a degree from The Culinary Institute of America in 2006, Kuzia-Carmel worked at restaurants in Boston, Massachusetts, then took an apprenticeship at Mugaritz, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain, according to his LinkedIn profile. He returned to the United States in 2010 and started working at Thomas Keller's Per Se in New York City. Several years later he made the move out west to San Francisco, where he worked with well-known chef Michael Tusk at Cotogna and Quince.
The name Camper appears to be a reference to RVs, which are featured amply on Kuzia-Carmels' Instagram.
Other photos he has posted that tag the restaurant or include the hashtag "camperrestaurant" hint at the kind of dishes Camper will serve, from a lemony cured Marin Coast halibut with Persian cucumber, kiwi and quinoa to
roasted chicken with brown rice and spinach cooked in the schmaltz. The Camper
website also features a series of photographs of dishes, from entrees and vegetables to desserts.
Another potential Camper dish posted on chef Greg Kuzia-Carmel's Instagram.
Despite staying mum on the details, Kuzia-Carmel is optimistic about opening a new venture on the Peninsula.
"I promise it will be a worthwhile trip from all points of the Valley when we get it all finalized," he said.
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