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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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Michelin Guide announced its annual list of San Francisco Bay Area and Wine Country Bib Gourmand restaurants, a designation that denotes high-quality food at a reasonable price.
Bib Gourmand restaurants must offer two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less (tax and gratuity not included).
Crouching Tiger,
Vesta and
Donato Enoteca in Redwood City;
Fey in Menlo Park and
Evvia in Palo Alto were all bibbed this year. Evvia, Fey and Vesta are new to the list. I've been dying to try Vesta and have only heard good things (sausage + honey pizza, anyone?).
This year's Bib Gourmand list represents 20 different cuisines from 83 Bay Area restaurants, up from 70 last year. It spans the Peninsula, up through San Francisco to wine country and across the Bay to Oakland and Berkeley.
Getting onto the Bib Gourmand list does also mean these restaurants will not earn the sought-after Michelin star(s). Those rankings are set to drop next Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Michelin has also been furiously
tweeting their favorite eats from various Bib Gourmand restaurants.
In response to a Vesta fan tweet: "@jmissig agreed! both the red pies (herb-tomato sauce, burrata, basil) and white pies (mozzarella, bacon, potato, rosemary) shine at Vesta."
Michelin promised Eater SF, a San Francisco food blog, that they'll be posting highlights from each spot over the next few days (though "we're better at eating than tweeting," they tweeted this morning).
