Posted by Max Hauser, a resident of another community, on Jan 26, 2013 at 12:38 pm
Max Hauser is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online

Thanks for a thorough (and richly photographed) look at this new restaurant.

Incidentally, for awareness of local restaurant history, this article surpassed the SF Chronicle by identifying Alexander's as a Cupertino enterprise. (Alexander's is that rare accomplishment, a successful original twist on a restaurant genre -- steakhouses -- that prides itself on avoiding originality.)

A recent Chron story on new Peninsula and South-Bay restaurants called The Sea "a seafood spin-off of [Alexander's] San Francisco and Cupertino restaurants." Geographically complete, but historically misleading -- like claiming Thomas Keller created renowned restaurants in "New York and Yountville." (He created a renowned restaurant in Yountville, then much later, on the strength of its success, a NYC spin-off -- much as Alexander's expanded to San Francisco in late 2010.)

Posted by Crescent Park Dad, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Jan 28, 2013 at 11:44 am

The columnist in the SF Chron only gave 1.5 stars...

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This may be a "to each their own" dining experience

Posted by Tried it, a resident of another community, on Jan 28, 2013 at 3:04 pm

We tried it, but the food was no more than just okay. The service really sucked though. To be fair, I will assume that due to the flu epidemic, several of their servers were out sick, because they were several short.