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Fancy group lunch in San Jose Bay Area
HI We are looking for a restaurant recommendation for a office group lunch. Our group won some bet money from the CTO :-) We are thinking of going to a good place for a lunch, fancier than the daily lunches people go out to. About 15 people, with about $50 to spend per person. We are looking for a somewhat fancy ( normally that implies expensive ) place within our budget with good food and comfortable settings. Preferrably in the San Jose bay area, including Palo Alto, Menlo Park etc. San Francisco city is a little too far for lunch. Thanks a lot for your suggestions. -Dipu |
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Parcel 104 or Birks.
Both in the same area off of 101 and Great America Parkway in Santa Clara. http://www.parcel104.com/PrivateDiningLunchMenu.htm http://www.birksrestaurant.com/ |
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Peter Lawrence > wrote: wrote: >> >> We are looking for a restaurant recommendation for a office group >> lunch. Our group won some bet money from the CTO :-) We are thinking of >> going to a good place for a lunch, fancier than the daily lunches >> people go out to. About 15 people, with about $50 to spend per person. >> We are looking for a somewhat fancy ( normally that implies expensive ) >> place within our budget with good food and comfortable settings. >> Preferrably in the San Jose bay area, including Palo Alto, Menlo Park >> etc. San Francisco city is a little too far for lunch. > >Alexander's Steakhouse in Cupertino. >http://www.alexanderssteakhouse.com Seconded. People who don't like weird food can be happy, and people who like to try exotic food get a few options, too. -- --- Aahz <*> (Copyright 2006 by ) Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ Androgynous poly kinky vanilla queer het Pythonista "Creation science" isn't bad science ... it's simply not science at all |
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"Heatmiser" > in
oups.com: > Parcel 104 or Birks. > > Both in the same area off of 101 and Great America Parkway in Santa Clara. I think Heatmiser (John?) knows the score. Best check if Parcel 104 is open for lunch, and by phoning or seeing opentable.com which presumably lists 104 (104's own web site has sometimes been out of date). But these mechanics aside, 104 has had some very capable people working including the South Bay's own Master Sommelier since 2005, the encyclopedic but extremely modest Randal Bertao. (A discreet word with him in advance would furnish surprising good wines you might not think to order.) That's if you want wine with lunch, which you might, since senior mgmt is paying off. That'd be my first choice of the two restaurants -- it was more of a leisurely sit-down experience -- though both have their points. Birks's assumed role of lead south-bay casual power-lunch venue from Nolan Bushnell's much older Lion and Compass in early or middle 1990s (I have seen truly influential silicon-valley personalities at both). Haven't been there for years alas. It had a big mesquite grill for fish steaks, grilled oversized mushrooms, fancy hamburgers, etc. Both were a little unusual, neither quite fit corporate-concept restaurant models or common US genres, in my experience. Kind of like silicon valley itself. (We are at, or near, 35th anniversary of the coinage "silicon valley" by the late trade journalist Don Hoeffler, by the way, in his original article series "The Saga of Silicon Valley." Somebody ought to reprint it, if only to help stifle the misattributions and wildly wrong dates surfacing regularly on Web searches.) |
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Heatmiser > suggests: > Parcel 104 or Birks. Never heard of Parcel 104, but I finally tried Birk's last fall after hearing it was good. It _is_ good, but not as good as I'd anticipated. Damned crowded, too. My group was lucky to score a table in the bar just as another was leaving. I'd heard that Birk's was big with the Silicon Valley crowd; how could it not be, given its location? Who it's popular with, to be precise, is *marketing* people. The bar area was a sea of buttondown shirts and doubleknit Dockers. We were obviously the only techies in the joint. On the positive side, they make a fine and generous martini... Geoff -- "The new 'Cindy Crawford Workout Video' is absolutely excellent. I only purchased it two weeks ago and already my right arm is the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's..." -- Karl Greenow |
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In ba.food JC Dill > wrote:
> Has anyone here tried Arcadia in San Jose for lunch? Several reviews > say they offer a tasting menu at lunch. Dave Eisen posted a good > review of his dinner there in November 2005. My last meal there was rather disappointing. Everything felt a little tired to the point where we inquired as to whether or not the chef had changed in the interim. Probably need more data points to be sure because we had several good ones toward the end of 2005. -- Dave Eisen 650.237.9000 "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell |
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Heatmiser wrote:
> Parcel 104 or Birks. > > Both in the same area off of 101 and Great America Parkway in Santa > Clara. > > http://www.parcel104.com/PrivateDiningLunchMenu.htm > http://www.birksrestaurant.com/ I was going to suggest Birks as well. I've been to Parcel 104 twice for company dinners, and both times were a disappointment. I'd avoid it. |
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Max Hauser wrote:
> "Heatmiser" > in > oups.com: >> Parcel 104 or Birks. >> >> Both in the same area off of 101 and Great America Parkway in Santa Clara. > > I think Heatmiser (John?) knows the score. Best check if Parcel 104 is open > for lunch, and by phoning or seeing opentable.com which presumably lists 104 > (104's own web site has sometimes been out of date). But these mechanics > aside, 104 has had some very capable people working including the South > Bay's own Master Sommelier since 2005, the encyclopedic but extremely modest > Randal Bertao. (A discreet word with him in advance would furnish > surprising good wines you might not think to order.) That's if you want > wine with lunch, which you might, since senior mgmt is paying off. That'd > be my first choice of the two restaurants -- it was more of a leisurely > sit-down experience -- though both have their points. > > Birks's assumed role of lead south-bay casual power-lunch venue from Nolan > Bushnell's much older Lion and Compass in early or middle 1990s (I have seen > truly influential silicon-valley personalities at both). Haven't been there > for years alas. It had a big mesquite grill for fish steaks, grilled > oversized mushrooms, fancy hamburgers, etc. One thing about Birk's is that the wait staff is extremely pushy in terms of trying to up-sell. I sometimes feel like I'm at a car dealership, in the finance office, where they're trying to sell me stuff like an extended warranty, fabric guard, or Poly Glycoat. |
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Thanks a lot to all the people who replied for their suggestions and recommendations. We ended up going to Le Papillon in San Jose . This is a relatively upscale French restaurant. We went for a special group lunch deal that they have. They are open Th/F for lunch. The food was good. Everybody in the group liked it and are ready to go back if we can get the upper management to sponsor us :-) We stayed with wines from the low end of their menu. The wine lovers in the group were pretty pleased with the wines. They have rooms with large tables to accomodate groups. Overall we all liked it. -Dipu |
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:21:59 -0700, LurfysMa >
wrote: [Kiely and Saratoga restaurants] > There used to be a Velvet Turtle in that area that I liked > a lot, but it's been gone awhile. Dang! That's been gone over a decade-and-a-half! It's currently a sucky Black Angus so don't go. The Ranger -- "They're all in my kill file, so I don't see the original posts. [..] I've got enough mental illness..." Marjorie P, am, 2/21/03 |
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The Ranger wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:21:59 -0700, LurfysMa > > wrote: > [Kiely and Saratoga restaurants] >> There used to be a Velvet Turtle in that area that I liked >> a lot, but it's been gone awhile. > > Dang! That's been gone over a decade-and-a-half! > > It's currently a sucky Black Angus so don't go. Isn't that supposed to be "Anguish?" > The Ranger > -- > "They're all in my kill file, so I don't see the original posts. [..] > I've got enough mental illness..." > Marjorie P, am, 2/21/03 |
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LurfysMa > wrote: [Kiely and Saratoga restaurants] >> There used to be a Velvet Turtle in that area that I liked >> a lot, but it's been gone awhile. The Ranger > responds: > Dang! That's been gone over a decade-and-a-half! And more's the pity. I liked the Velvet Turtle. There was a second one on Fremont and Mary in Sunnyvale (right next to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor -- the one without the F-86 in the dining room), and a third in the Sharon Park shopping center. > It's currently a sucky Black Angus so don't go. Do you think it's any worse than most Black Angi, or do you dislike the chain generally? Geoff -- "But then again, that would make General Mills the World's Leading DEATH CAMP as every year Billions and Billions of Innocent Grain Persons are BRUTALLY and SAVAGELY MURDERED to provide americans with Cheerio's and Wheaties!!!" -- drieux |
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"Geoff Miller" > wrote in message ... > > > LurfysMa > wrote: > > [Kiely and Saratoga restaurants] > >>> There used to be a Velvet Turtle in that area that I liked >>> a lot, but it's been gone awhile. > > > The Ranger > responds: > >> Dang! That's been gone over a decade-and-a-half! > > And more's the pity. I liked the Velvet Turtle. There was > a second one on Fremont and Mary in Sunnyvale (right next to > Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor -- the one without the F-86 in the > dining room), and a third in the Sharon Park shopping center. > Geoff > The Velvet Turtle, now that's a name I haven't heard for awhile. Anyone know why they closed out, thought they were doing pretty well. -tom |
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