Everything you need to know about Peninsula Restaurant Week 2023

To support our local dining scene, The Six Fifty and Peninsula Foodist are teaming up to bring Peninsula Restaurant Week back for its third year May 19-27, featuring deals, prix-fixe menus and special dishes from your favorite eateries between Daly City and Sunnyvale, as well as the San Mateo County Coastside.

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With a locals-first ethos and a seasonal farm-to-table menu, this restaurant has been anchored on Palo Alto’s University Avenue for nearly a decade

Open since 2014, Local Union 271 in downtown Palo Alto offers seasonal farm-to-table fare that highlights local ingredients. With Peninsula Restaurant Week approaching, I met with Nur Zayed, the restaurant’s general manager, and controller Clayton Adelhelm to discuss the restaurant's must-try dishes, how it weathered the pandemic and the state of the Peninsula dining scene.

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Peninsula author captures the journey of a would-be presidential assassin from suburban mom to the fringes of ’70s counterculture

Keep up a nearly 30-year correspondence with anyone and you'll get to know a lot about them. But for investigative journalist and Palo Alto-based author Geri Spieler, who traded letters for 28 years with would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, she also discovered the ways in which Moore was unknowable, by her own design — as well as the things she couldn't hide about herself.

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