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A new restaurant called Sand Hill Sundeck has opened at 3000 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. The restaurant, which opened on July 7, is located within the Sand Hill Collection, a 48-acre indoor-outdoor workspace poised at the top of Sand Hill Road.
The restaurant’s menu is deli-inspired fare with an Italian twist that also features many local ingredients. If you head to Sand Hill Sundeck for lunch, you will find a wide selection of sandwiches, including a house-made pastrami sandwich, a house-smoked steelhead trout sandwich featuring fromage blanc and capers, a fried eggplant sandwich and several pared-down “chef’s pick” sandwiches, such as turkey, avocado and tomato confit on a baguette.
You can instead opt for a “deli plate,” which is essentially a deconstructed sandwich accompanied by several sides. The menu also features sourdough pizza, salads, pastas, soups and a lamb burger, for diners who are not craving sandwiches.
The restaurant is managed by Bon Appétit Management Company, and features the culinary stylings of Executive Chef and Culinary Director Nicolai Tuban, a Bay Area native who also oversees the menu at neighboring restaurant Sand Hill Kitchen. The restaurant’s chef de cuisine is Andrew Dilda, who opened and ran several restaurants in Fort Worth, Texas.
“What I want to bring to Sand Hill Road with the Sand Hill Sundeck is that delicious, exploratory energy of the deli while using the world’s pantry in a really creative way,” said Tuban in a press release. “I want you to be able to see the ingredients and what we’re doing, want you to be able to see the chefs cooking on the line, want you to see people slicing prosciutto. Then you can take that perfect creation out to the patio and enjoy it in the incomparable California sun. The Sand Hill Sundeck is a celebration of the Bay Area, from a Bay Area guy.”
As you enter the restaurant you are greeted with an open-concept kitchen, a pastry case and a coffee bar. The front of the restaurant also features a small amount of gourmet pantry staples for sale, such as canned roma tomatoes, Kewpie mayonnaise and truffle oil.
The restaurant’s biggest draw, besides the food, is the large sundeck that offers diners panoramic views of the Santa Cruz Mountains foothills. The sundeck also features a fire pit and several different seating areas for patrons to enjoy. Diners can also opt to dit on the restaurant’s balcony and enjoy the same views.
The name of the restaurant pays homage to the original Sundeck restaurant on Sand Hill Road, which opened in the mid-1970s and was known as the go-to lunch spot for venture capitalists and Stanford professors alike. The original Sundeck restaurant was owned by Tom Ford, the real estate developer who helped establish Sand Hill Road as a center for Silicon Valley investment capital.
“The Sundeck has a great history and we wanted to preserve that while creating a new and special space where people could gather for any occasion,” said Maria Encinias, the Associate Director of Brand Experience at DivcoWest, the company that owns the Sand Hill Collection, in the press release.
There are other nods to the Bay Area throughout the menu. The restaurant’s pizza menu is filled with names that evoke the San Mateo County coast, such as the Pescadero pizza, which is topped with artichokes, roasted pasilla cream, chevre and parmesan cheese, or the Gazos Creek pizza, which involves lemon ricotta, soppressata, hot coppa and a drizzle of peach honey.
Sand Hill Sundeck is open five days a week, Monday to Friday. Visitors to the restaurant can enjoy pastry and coffee service from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., lunch service from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and happy hour offerings from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily. See the menu and learn more at sandhillsundeck.com.
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