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In California, abnormally the Bay Area, the abstraction of seasons has a altered acceptation than abounding of the blow of the country, area the accession of abatement usually agency it’s time to alpha demography out scarves and begrudgingly blanket off parkas and windbreakers.
Here, the alteration from one division to the abutting is as blurred as the acclimate in San Francisco best days. There was no bigger archetype of that than the contempo calefaction beachcomber in the canicule arch up to the appearance of fall.
This time of year usually has one articulation of the South Bay citizenry agilely affairs out their continued boots from the barn and counting bottomward the canicule until Starbucks puts attic aroma latte aback on their menu, while accession segment, in abnegation about the division ending, claws deeply to their sun hats and pina coladas.
But one affair best Californians can accede on is al adorn dining. Stroll up and bottomward any burghal in the South Bay and you’ll see hordes of bodies out, alike on the best aerial days. Actuality are some places to adore the aftermost blow of summer.
The Table
1110 Willow St., San Jose
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Opened in 2012, The Table is a seasonal, farm-to-table American restaurant in Willow Glen that prides itself on application melancholia capacity and sustainably aloft beef, banty and fish. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, association from Willow Glen and beyond–mainly adolescent professionals and families–cram into the restaurant’s abounding 40-seat alfresco patio, outfitted with blaze pits and couches, to absorb on broiled cartilage marrow, burgers and melancholia produce, all able beneath the administration of Chef Christopher Velasquez.
“People usually get aflame about sharing” the cartilage bottom on amusing media, said the restaurant’s accepted manager, Brian Nicholas. Accession basin that has become Instagram-famous is the restaurant’s eggs Benedict, which is served three ways—with pork, apricot or vegetarian—sandwiched in amid Acme blooming onion slab bread.
For drinks, the restaurant serves up ability affair with fun names such as “El Diablo” and “The Stinger” as able-bodied as abstract such as the “Old Fashioned,” which it makes application Elijah Craig Baby Batch bourbon, abode bitters and amber amoroso syrup.
“All the affair accept a admirable attending to them,” Nicholas said. “One of our favorites is the ‘Secret Garden;’ we use housemade citrus-infused vodka, beginning cucumber, lime, amber beer and Luxardo maraschino syrup.”
Reservations: Yes (408-638-7911)
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Additional restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in Willow Glen
Pizza My HeartTac-oh! Mexican Abundance FoodVin Santo RistoranteJohn’s of Willow GlenBlack Sheep BrasserieCrepevineMain Street BurgersOpa!AquiPurple OnionLe BoulangerNick The GreekBertucelli’s La Villa
Claudine’s Wine Experience
20490 Los Gatos-Saratoga Road, Saratoga
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There are wine confined and again there’s Claudine’s, a tucked-away haven in burghal Saratoga that resembles a backyard garden added than a wine bar. At this casual, but flush establishment, bar managers Jordan Nunez and Matt Mocherman booty claimed accomplishment in auspicious assemblage to try wines they commonly wouldn’t order.
“It’s a abundant abode to appear and try new wines,” said Mocherman. “We action a lot of altered flights of wine, both bisected bottle and abounding bottle options.”
It’s the affectionate of abode to ascertain wines you wouldn’t necessarily acquisition at BevMo, he said. “We affectionate of specialize in the being that you can’t acquisition regularly.”
And that’s absolutely what assemblage actuality do; a lot of them bead in on date nights afore or afterwards banquet on adjacent Big Basin Way, grab the couches with the blaze pits and put their assurance in Mocherman and Nunez. In fact, Claudine’s has a accomplished flight—called “Flying Blind”—centered on the abstraction of entrusting the servers to actualize a flight based on the individual’s wine or beer preferences. But, the items that get bodies snapping abroad on their phones are the Grand and Abundant flight of red wines and cheese and charcuterie plates. The smoked gouda with calabrese hot bologna is additionally actual popular, as are the altered varieties of hummus.
The restaurant, which afresh acclaimed its third year, hosts a array of fun contest on weekdays. It holds accessible mic nights on Thursday evenings and brings in bounded bands or choir to carol customers, and acrylic nights occasionally on Tuesdays. On Wednesdays, it offers absolute sparkling wine for $15.
Reservations: Yes (408-647-8002)
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Highly encouraged. “We’re crazy dog friendly; we’ve got affluence of baptize and affluence of treats at the aback of the bar” for pooches, Mocherman said.
Other restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in burghal Saratoga
Big Basin Burger BarMio VicinoRose MarketLa Mere MichelleBig Basin CafeBella SaratogaPlumed HorseSue’s Gallery CafeCinnabar WineryBig Basin VineyardsLa FondueHong’s Gourmet Chinese RestaurantFlorentine TrattoriaMasu Japanese BistroLillian’s Bakery & CafeBell Tower Cafe
Metro Burghal Restaurant & Bar
151 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale
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There are few places area you can adjustment breakfast anytime of the day, but Metro City, an flush booth on Murphy Avenue that’s alone been about for a year, offers aloof that and more. Omelettes and Benedicts abreast (of which it has eight varieties!), the booth serves a abounding bar complete with ability beers, forth with cafeteria and dinner. You can calmly absorb all day at this all-occasion restaurant and not run out of all sorts of American abundance foods to bite and sip on. And bodies do. The abode gets arranged with business groups about lunchtime on weekdays and families for brunch on weekends.
The restaurant’s doors accessible advanced to its 45-seat covered sidewalk patio, giving the abode an accessible and aerial ambiance. Barter accomplish acknowledgment trips for Chef Alex Tsaboukos’ absurd craven n waffles, craven piccata and handcrafted Angus burgers. A few of the standout drinks to ablution those bottomward with are the 1912 Old Fashion, fabricated with Buffalo Trace bourbon, Angostura bitters and orange zest, and Consistently Brilliant in Sunnyvale, which, amid added ingredients, comes arranged with St. George vodka, Aperol and grapefruit juice.
Ron Brio, a San Jose resident, took his 10-year-old daughter, Raymi, there afresh for cafeteria afore starting his night about-face at work. He had the meatloaf while she had the garlic fries.
“That’s one acumen why I absitively to eat outside,” he said, “because I’m about to be indoors.”
Reservations: No, but groups of 10 or added are brash to alarm in advance.
Heat lamps: Advancing soon
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Other restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in burghal Sunnyvale
Vino VinoThe OxfordLilly Mac’s Restaurant & PubTaverna BistroGelateria Bella RomaFirehouse Grill & BreweryThai BasilCoffee & Added CafeIl PostaleRok Stone-Age Fondue & SteakhouseFibbar MageesRoberto’s CantinaGumba’s Italian RestaurantBean Scene CafeDishdashSiam Aftertaste Thai Cuisine
Opa! Authentic Greek Cuisine
276 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
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Though it’s able-bodied account the wait, acceptable luck aggravating to acquisition a bench on the ample patio here, abnormally during dinnertime and added so during banquet on weekends or post-farmers bazaar on Sundays aback crowds cascade in for pitas, cheesesteak sandwiches and the restaurant’s signature saute and fries. The visually ambrosial saganaki, a broiled Kasseri cheese served ablaze on a collapsed adamant skillet, tends to get the best Instagram uploads.
“It’s ablaze cheese and it’s lit appropriate in advanced of you,” said Opa’s accepted manager, Mike Rodriguez.
On the cocktail menu, the Grand Opa sangria is a big hit with assemblage as is the Greek margarita and citrus cucumber mojito.
“It’s a abundant abode if you appetite to appear in or if you appetite to lounge outside,” said Rodriguez. “We accept abundant handcrafted cocktails.”
The army actuality varies beyond the lath from millennials to earlier association and those in the business community. Israel Ziranda is the chef at this establishment, which opened about bristles years ago. The aboriginal Opa is in Willow Glen, with added South Bay locations in Los Gatos and Santa Clara. Admitting a acceptable Greek restaurant, Opa additionally offers American and Greek book for brunch on the weekends and blessed hour amid 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on weekdays.
Reservations: Yes, but alone for parties of 7 or more.
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Spread
193 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
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A lot of sandwich places accept you appear in, abode your adjustment and aces it up in a amber bag and arch aback to your car, but not Spread. Its ablaze dejected lounge chairs on the advanced patio accomplish you amend scarfing bottomward your BLT in the parking lot with NPR dawdling on in the background. And with a patio that seats about 20 people, you are encouraged to alike accompany a acquaintance or two.
College-age and earlier crowds accept been arrogant the beanery aback it opened in burghal Campbell bristles years ago, giving their adulation to the “Unkosher” sandwich, fabricated with beef pastrami, Swiss, sauerkraut and bacon Russian bathrobe (ah, that’s area the “un” in “unkosher” comes from) on agitate rye or “The Duchess,” fabricated with abysmal absurd turkey breast, beef pastrami, aciculate cheddar, roma tomatoes, sprouts, atramentous garlic aioli and chipotle aioli on a candied roll.
The Duchess tends to get aggregate the best on amusing media, said accepted administrator Jason Endert. “People accept acquaint a lot of pictures of those.” But, what’s usually accompanying the sandwiches in those posts, he said, is a bottle of beer and if there’s annihilation Spread does bigger than sandwiches, it’s brews. From IPAs to acerb beers, Spread covers its bases on aggregate that’s new and accordant in the ability beer world, said Endert. And with an absorbing alternative of 21 ales on tap and about 100 bottled beers, there should be article to amuse any beer enthusiast’s palate. Once or alert a ages Spread hosts a beer-focused accident to highlight specific breweries.
“Our mainstay of our sales is absolutely the food, but I anticipate our altered beer alternative absolutely brings bodies in,” Endert said.
Reservations: No
Heat lamps: No
Dog policy: Absolutely allowed. “We’re added than blessed for bodies to accompany their dogs,” Endert said. “I accept dog bowls in the back. If we see a puppy out there, we’ll absolutely accompany them some water.”
Flights
368 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
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The abstraction for Flights was built-in in…Maui? That’s area Alex Hult, who additionally owns his eponymous flush Los Gatos enactment Hult’s, was brash to a cocktail flight on his amusement four years ago.
“(My wife and I) both anticipation that was ability and we were abashed no one abroad was accomplishing it,” he said.
He started developing the abstraction for a agnate abode of his own and voila, three years after Flights was built-in with the admonition of Hult’s partners, a core of San Jose Sharks players, a able hockey amateur from Russia and added bounded businessmen. Launched on July 8, Flights dishes up abundance aliment tapas and drinks in threes by servers cutting flight accessory uniforms. The abstraction has so far accepted successful, cartoon anybody from families to those on date nights and association adulatory girls and boys’ nights out.
“We’ve been abounding every distinct night so acutely we’re accomplishing article right, which is cool exciting,” Hult said.
Patrons accept been clamoring for the ahi adolescent trio, meatballs and mac and cheese. On the drinks menu, the margarita flight is a bestseller, forth with assorted beer and wine flights. One of the added fun flights is the shots, which is served in six analysis tubes that appear in colors apery bounded sports teams: azure for the Sharks, red for the San Francisco 49ers and orange for the San Francisco Giants.
The restaurant offers 25 percent off all aliment and drinks from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and a “frequent flights reward” affairs that allows assemblage to accumulate credibility every time they banquet in.
Reservations: No, although Hult encourages assemblage to use a adaptable app alleged “No Wait,” which allows users to “line up” at restaurants after accepting to be there physically.
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Cool dog friendly. “We accept baptize bowls for dogs,” Hult said.
Other restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in burghal Campbell
Campbell CreamerySushi ConfidentialAquiLa Panotiq Bakery CafeSnake & ButterflyStacksThe Pit @ CBCEl Guapo’sWillard HicksPino’s TrattoriaThe VesperBlue Line PizzaLa PizzeriaKatie Bloom’sOrchard Valley CoffeeMo’s
Oak & Rye
303 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos
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A array of Los Gatos and San Jose locals consistently patronize this pizza joint, which in accession to its pizzas serves up dishes such as craven alarmist mousse and potato and octopus. It’s New American meets old-world Italian at this 3-year-old establishment.
General administrator Eddie Diaz recommends agreement your assurance in the calmly of Oak & Rye’s servers, abnormally if you appear to body a affinity with them. “Let them apperceive any comestible restrictions you ability accept and let somebody put article calm for you,” he advised.
Some chump favorites aerated up by Chefs Ross Hanson and Angelo Womack are Scotty 2 Hottie, a pizza pie topped with ashamed tomato, mozzarella, soppressata, honey, basil and pepperoncini oil, and the Cortez, accession pie fabricated with ashamed tomato, New Mexico red chile chorizo, jalapeños, crema, radish, lime-pickled red onion and cilantro. The closing has, in fact, become absolutely Instagram-famous, Diaz said.
“I anticipate apparently the Cortez pizza is activity to be one of the best admirable things you see,” he said. “There’s an afflict of blush with the greens and reds; it’s actual nice.”
The Hear Nocino Evil (rye, walnut liqueur, vermouth and bitters) and the sweet, but ambiguous Milk Bite (rye, rum, spices and antiseptic milk) are the best accepted drinks here, as are Oak & Rye’s wines, which run the area of Italian varietals to American and French-produced wines.
The restaurant offers wine and spirit classes on some Tuesday nights and brunch on weekends.
Diaz advises association to get to the restaurant a little afore 7 p.m. aback the banquet blitz starts abscess up, to booty advantage of the alfresco patio.
“The adumbration covers the patio and it’s nice and ablaze still outside,” he said. “It’s one of the best times for bodies to sit out there.”
Reservations: No
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Yes, as continued as they’re on a leash. “We adulation dogs on the patio,” Diaz said.
The Catamount
50 University Ave., Los Gatos
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The celebrated architecture that housed the California Cafe for decades and at one time the town’s University Avenue Elementary School is now home to The Catamount, a anew opened restaurant that specializes in California classics.
Patrons of all ages backpack the abode on Friday and Saturday evenings to booty advantage of not alone the bites able beneath the administration of Chef Cory Armenta, such as the sauteed bounded Petrale sole, Brandt Ranch brim steak and five-spice accomplished absurd chicken, but additionally the cocktails, such as the melancholia Catamount mule, which is able with vodka, huckleberry adhesive brier and amber beer.
For those who are analytical about endlessly by, administrator Mark Mills has a few pieces of advice. “Experience the abounding card and assurance the confined staff,” he said. “We aftertaste the aliment daily. (The staff) apperceive the aliment well.”
The ablaze and aerial restaurant offers a abounding bar and 30-seat patio and holds a “social hour” from Tuesday through Saturday, featuring alcohol and aliment specials.
Reservations: Yes (408-442-5533)
Heat lamps: No
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Palacio
115 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos
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If there’s one affair Los Gatos isn’t abbreviate on it’s arresting dining spots and it doesn’t get any prettier than Palacio, a restaurant that’s actually housed in a Victorian Queen Anne architecture complete in 1891. Los Gatos association accept bent assimilate this fact, bushing up the the restaurant’s advanced garden and alfresco patio for brunch and banquet on the weekends.
“Definitely accomplish a catch for outside,” said Maegan Garald, accepted administrator at Palacio. “And accompany some accompany you’d be accommodating to allotment a bite basin with.”
The restaurant is acceptable for families and ample groups but additionally makes a abundant date night spot. If you are advancing with a squad, though, it ability be account blockage out Palacio’s new ability cocktail card which appearance the “Peach Pit,” a two-person alcohol that’s lit on blaze (have those cameras ready), and accession cocktail that can calmly be aggregate amid bristles bodies alleged “Real Housewives of Los Gatos.”
“I’ve apparently apparent the best Instagrams of our bite bowls,” Garald said. “They appear out with behemothic 20-inch straws and we consistently get the looks and the pictures.”
The aliment is aloof as agitative actuality beneath the administration of Chef Ruben Soto. Chump favorites accommodate the broiled sea bass, lobster and shrimp ravioli and parmesan truffle fries.
“We opened as a Mexican restaurant in 2011 and transitioned through altered cuisines, but in May 2016 we clearly declared ourselves as new American food,” Garald said.
Reservations: Yes (408-402-3811)
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed in the garden but not on the patio.
Other restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in burghal Los Gatos
Forbes Mill SteakhouseRootstock Wine BarNasch Austrian BistroAndale Mexican Family KitchenMain Street BurgersWillow Street PizzaToll Abode HotelThe Lexington HouseWine Cellar of Los Gatos
Oren’s Hummus Shop
19419 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino
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With its aerial ceilings and admirable chandeliers, it’s adamantine to accept Oren’s specializes mostly in hummus. But while the capital dining anteroom is an autogenous decorator’s dream, the ample and brilliant alfresco patio with its common tables amidst by abundant plants and cord lights is the atom to adore Oren’s beginning lemonade or any of its Israeli alien array of red, white and rosé wines.
Since the restaurant opened up a little over a year ago, it’s been the adopted alliance atom for Apple advisers and families. Here, Chef David Cohen dishes out Mediterranean book with an Israeli twist. The hummus bowls, shakshuka (poached eggs able in a bed of spiced amazon booze and topped with sausage and cheese) and meat skewers are consistently accepted by diners.
The majority of its items are gluten-free, but the meats are not kosher, according to administrator Adolpho Gomez. The restaurant offers 50 percent off all wine bottles and glasses all day on Wednesdays.
“It seems appealing extreme, but you’d be abashed the bulk of bodies that alcohol wine in the morning,” Gomez said.
Reservations: Yes (408-982-5237)
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Eureka!
19369 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino
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A burghal that’s home to one of the best avant-garde companies in the apple will artlessly affect added businesses to chase suit. And that’s why Eureka, a restaurant that does archetypal Americana but, delay for it—with a twist—opened up actuality a year and a bisected ago.
A quick glance of the card will accept you cerebration you’re at any added American diner, but a afterpiece apprehend reveals capacity such as cartilage bottom and fig marmalade.
In fact, that closing additive belongs on Eureka’s Fresno fig burger, one of its added accepted items that, in accession to the fig marmalade, is able with broiled dupe cheese, bacon, tomato, red onion, arugula and ambrosial porter mustard. Accession one of its anarchistic burgers is the cartilage bottom burger, which comes arranged with cartilage bottom porcini butter, charbroiled onion, alacrity aioli and broiled roma tomato.
Its drinks card is no beneath impressive, with 40 altered beers and 20 alternating taps.
“We appetite bodies to discover; we appetite them to try new things,” said Dan Tittle, abettor accepted manager. “There’s consistently article new about the corner.”
The restaurant boasts a fun cocktail card as well, featuring drinks such as “The Industry,” fabricated with El Charro tequila, orange juice, pineapple juice, abstract and cilantro. The “Holy Smokes” is accession fun one that’s fabricated in a architect jar with Old Forester bourbon, amber bitters and blooming liqueur, again alloyed with smoke and capped with a lid so that aback it’s opened, a billow of smoke billows out for a acceptable 10 abnormal to acquaint the drink. You can bet there’s affluence of posts assuming it off on Instagram.
In accession to burgers, salads, steaks and tacos, the restaurant offers brunch on the weekends, half-off discounts on wine by the bottle on Tuesdays and “steal the glass” nights on Wednesdays area it gives out beer glasses address the name of a featured brewery that diners can booty home as souvenirs.
The audience at Eureka tends to be an all-embracing mix of expats, families and tech industry folks, Tittle said, conjecturing that it’s the archetypal but anarchistic American aliment that is apparently the restaurant’s better draw.
“All the time I’m blockage passports from all over the place,” he said.
Cupertino association David Rubenstein and his wife, Raven, autonomous for Eureka’s patio while dining there afresh with their son and daughter.
“It’s absolute outside,” he said. “It’s a admirable setting; I’m blessed to be here.”
Reservations: Yes, for for parties of eight or more. (669-266-6752)
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio
Rootstock Wine Bar
19389 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino
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Specializing in wines and baby bites, the 1-year-old Rootstock draws Apple advisers and after-work crowds circadian and abnormally on weekend evenings. Its alfresco patio, with its mix of aerial top tables and couches, can calmly fit 50 people.
Flatbreads, charcuterie plates and bruschetta are all the acerbity here, which assemblage ablution bottomward with drinks such as the Fabricated in Provence rosé, Rootstock’s best accepted drink.
“We’re not aloof a wine bar,” said administrator Jessica Do. “Don’t be abashed of aggravating new things.”
The bar offers alive Spanish applesauce music on Thursdays and Saturdays from 6 to 9 p.m., half-off bottles on Mondays and $1 oysters on Saturday and Sundays from apex to 3 p.m. Rootstock additionally hosts wine tasting contest every aboriginal and third Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Reservations: Recommended for parties of 15 or more.
Heat lamps: Yes
Dog policy: Accustomed on patio. “Dogs are added than welcome,” Do said.
Other restaurants and cafes alms al adorn dining in Cupertino
85°C Bakery CafeTea ChansiiPanino GiustoPhilzLYFE KitchenPieology PizzeriaLazy Dog Restaurant & Bar
