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About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in jo...
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About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Update: International Korean chain moving into vacated Apple Store space
Uploaded: Nov 27, 2013
A Korean restaurant chain with locations in South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Japan, London and Los Angeles is moving into the old downtown Palo Alto Apple Store space at 451 University Ave.
Bibigo does traditional Korean food ? dumplings, rice cakes, noodles, soups, bibimbap and the like.
Maureen Hardy, a representative from
BCV Architects, the San Francisco-based firm designing the space for Bibigo, said the owner is not ready to talk about the project yet. (BCV Architects is also behind multiple notable food marketplaces ? the Ferry Building in San Francisco, Oxbow Market in Napa, Jack London Market in Oakland ? as well as local restaurants such as M.Y. China, Gott's Roadside and Hog Island Oyster Co.)
However, Palo Alto City Planner Elena Lee said BCV Architects' application includes minor façade changes and a new rooftop outdoor dining area. (Anyone who walks by the Apple Store and checks out the application posted in the window can see a rendering for what the redesigned building might look like.)
The posted application also includes a request for an alcohol service permit. Here's hoping for a full bar.
Mysteriously, a new print-out of the restaurant rendering has been taped over the old one. It's identical except for the name of the restaurant, which now says "Maum."
Maum is a Korean word that means "mind, soul and spirit," but it's unclear what happened to Bibigo. City Planner Elena Lee did confirm that the proposed project is for a "Korean service restaurant."
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