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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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Mountain View's Mahalo Bowl served its last acai bowl on Saturday, Jan. 27.
Owner David Holyoak announced the closure on social media. He did not return requests for comment.
Holyoak
opened Mahalo Bowl at 650 Castro St. in 2015 after running an acai-bowl food truck for about a year.
"Four years ago (this week) I started this business out of a beat up food truck," Holyoak wrote in a Facebook post on Jan. 23. "I was 2.5 years out of college, hated my job, and had dreams of building a business from the ground up."
An acai bowl featured on Mahalo Bowl's Instagram.
Holyoak eventually grew Mahalo Bowl to more than 10 employees working out of the brick-and-mortar shop.
The post does not explain why he decided to close.
Holyoak is "in talks with a number of parties to take over the store," he wrote, "so don’t worry, downtown Mountain View will still have delicious acai bowls and smoothies available on the daily!"
Stay tuned for updates on what will replace Mahalo Bowl.
