San Jose - Food & Drinks

SoCal's Slater’s 50/50 will be opening up its first Northern California location in South San Jose at the Westfield Oakridge mall off Blossom Hill Road later this month.

The new location is in San Jose’s Edenvale neighborhood and has the address of 5815 Silver Creek Valley Place near the intersection with Coyote Road. It opens on September 29th. 

Silicon Valley will be getting two more higher-end dining options in the near future, thanks to a Los Angeles-based restaurant group that is in the middle of a tech-based expansion.

The upscale Mexican restaurant in the Peninsula town of Los Altos, opened by celebrity chef Traci Des Jardins, has suddenly and mysteriously closed just six months after it opened.

An annual barbecue competition and food festival that started in 2016 is coming back for its fifth year this weekend, after taking two years off during the pandemic.

San Jose is expected to get a massive new Vietnamese market that is unlike anything the Bay Area has ever seen.

The Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto, is about to open Momosan Santana Row as part of his sake and ramen chain, which has locations in New York City, Seattle, Waikiki, and a few other cities.

A fried chicken chain that has items that are so hot they’ve sent people to the emergency room has opened its third Bay Area location.

In a shocking, unexpected announcement, one of the most well-known chefs in Silicon Valley is leaving his much-acclaimed restaurant in Los Gatos.

Popular Bay Area Peruvian chicken chain Limón Rotisserie is prepping to open a sixth location in Mountain View.

One of the first Northern California locations of a popular seafood restaurant chain has shut down abruptly, leaving customers shocked and saddened.

4th Street Pizza Co. at the corner of East Santa Clara Street and South 4th Street, will shut down when its lease expires at the end of September.

Amy’s Kitchen, known for its high-end grocery store line of frozen pizzas and entrees, will be closing its production facility in San Jose sometime in September, after just one year in operation.

A new Korean food store is taking over the former Sprouts Farmers Market store in Fremont — which closed in late May.

It’s considered one of the most treasured ‘made in San Jose’ specialties. The world-famous Orange Sauce sold at La Victoria Taqueria is the stuff of legend.

A 4th of July parade that has been underway in San Jose for more than 120 years proved to be a significant boost to the local economy this year.

After six years in business and surviving the business-crippling pandemic, a popular Silicon Valley coffee maker has just opened its fourth location in the South Bay.

A Silicon Valley coffee shop and eatery known for its specialty breakfast sandwiches has just leased a new space in downtown San Jose.

A new music venue and bar/restaurant is rising today in San Jose’s SoFA District from the ashes of jazz club Café Stritch, which officially succumbed to the pandemic earlier this year.

The extremely popular burger-and-milkshake chain Shake Shack has just confirmed it will open a new location at Westfield Oakridge mall off Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose.

The new Palo Alto location has taken over the former location of Anatolian Kitchen at 2323 Birch Street.

A bitter battle looks to be underway over the future of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, and now has the current organizers and the man who wants to take it over lobbing heated accusations back and forth.

Some good news for fans of the La Victoria taqueria chain: The Hayward location has just reopened in a brand new space just half a mile away from the old La Victoria location.

The San Francisco startup Local Kitchens, which is basically a ghost kitchen that you can visit in person and functions as a "digital food hall," is opening a new location in Los Gatos this June, one in Campbell and one in Mill Valley this July, as the Business Times is reporting.

Tech workers and residents in North San Jose are about to get a new option for a convenient and tasty slice of pizza.