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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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QBB opens in Mountain View
Uploaded: Sep 15, 2017
Ribs, brisket, pastrami and other barbecue fare is on the menu of
Quality Bourbons & Barbecue in Mountain View, which opened its doors at 216 Castro St. on Tuesday.
Quality Bourbons & Barbecue, or QBB, is the brainchild of Kasim Syed, who owns Palo Alto Brewing Company, The Rose & Crown and The Tap Room in Palo Alto, and Jon Andino, former general manager at Scratch in Mountain View.
After several years of talking about wanting to open a restaurant together, they settled on barbecue, hoping to fill a hole in the Mountain View dining scene.
Isaias Cancino pulls St. Louis-style pork spare ribs out of the smoker at QBB. Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Weekly.
QBB's opening menu is split into appetizers, sandwiches, meat plates, "just the meat," sides and dessert. It's certainly a place for carnivores, from the "bacon explosion" appetizer (sausage that's stuffed with cream cheese, then wrapped with bacon and cut into medallions) to pastrami, reuben and French dip sandwiches.
Meat options include brisket, chicken, sausage, pulled pork, pastrami and pork spare ribs. There are classic barbecue sides like beans, potato salad, creamed corn and cole slaw.
For libations, Andino said in a previous interview that they planned to have Palo Alto Brewing Company beers on tap, cocktails on tap an "expansive" list of bourbons available to drink neat or on the rocks.
QBB is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Check out the menu
here.
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