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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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R & B Seafood Restaurant closes in Palo Alto
Uploaded: Aug 25, 2015
Palo Alto Chinese restaurant R & B Seafood closed last week, making way for a
three-story development slated for the 2209 El Camino Real site.
This handwritten message appeared in the restaurant's front door last week:
The city's Architectural Review Board approved in January 2014 a 9,571 square-foot, three-story building for the site with financial services on the ground floor, offices on the second floor and residential units on the third. It will replace the one-story building that housed R&B Seafood and Peninsula Locksmith.
A rendering of the planned three-story mixed-use development for 2209 El Camino Real in Palo Alto. Courtesy City of Palo Alto.
The city planner for this project, Margaret Netto, said Tuesday that no drawings have been submitted for the development yet, but she "assume(s) it''s moving forward."
Netto said the project, approved more than a year ago, likely won't fall under the city's new "urgency ordinance," which the City Council
passed in May to protect retail by prohibiting the conversion of ground-floor retail to offices.
R & B Seafood opened in 2009. A few fans of the neighborhood spot turned to Yelp last week to lament its closure:
"My most favorite sweet and sour pork place is sadly closed," Jeffrey T. wrote. "RIP R&B."
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