By Elena Kadvany
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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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Juices, smoothies, sandwiches and coffee bags emblazoned with shirtless men are now available at Joe & The Juice in downtown Palo Alto.
The 508 University Ave. cafe opened on Saturday, June 30, in a large space on the ground floor of a brand-new building at the corner of Cowper Street and University Avenue. It's the first of three outposts the Danish chain has announced for Palo Alto.
The interior of the new Joe & The Juice in Palo Alto. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
On the
menu are fruit and vegetable juices, which start at $7 (for a small, 12 ounces) and go up to $10 (for the large, 10-ounce "signature" juices). Juices include the "Prince of Green" with lemon, pineapple and cucumber; the "Pick Me Up" with raspberry, banana and apple; and the "Green Shield" with spinach, kale, broccoli, cucumber and apple.
There are also smoothies ($7 for a small and $8.70 for a large), sandwiches ($8.90) and coffee.
Customers order and pick up juices, smoothies and other fare at the counter, adorned with the cafe's coffee bags. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
The modern space has ample seating and conveniently placed electrical outlets to enable using laptops there, which several people already were on Monday afternoon.
Joe & The Juice is open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
The company is
opening two more locations, one just blocks away on 240 Hamilton Ave. and another at Stanford Shopping Center.
