…plus more from the week in Peninsula restaurants: MacArthur Park reopens, Maum chefs depart and Cali Dumpling arrives in Silicon Valley Antonio’s Nut House reopened at 321 California Ave. in Palo Alto in late June with new outdoor seating. (Photo by Elena Kadvany) As the last week has shown, it continues to be an era of uncertainty in the Peninsula restaurant scene. Restaurants regularly close and then re-open…and then close again as ...
Read MoreMeet Darius Johnson of Bay La Soul. The new socially distanced outdoor patio in the parking lot of Antonio’s Nut House in Palo Alto. (Photo by Elena Kadvany) Darius Johnson grew up in Palo Alto’s Ventura neighborhood, practically down the street from Antonio’s Nut House on California Avenue. The longtime dive bar reopened on Monday after a months-long pandemic-forced closure, with Johnson leading the kitchen. Taqueria Azteca, which for three decades had served ...
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