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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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Nobu Palo Alto eyes next-door expansion
Uploaded: Oct 17, 2017
A place to see and be seen, Nobu's
new Palo Alto outpost could soon expand.
The restaurant, located in the ground floor of The Epiphany Hotel at 180 Hamilton Ave., recently submitted plans to the City of Palo Alto to demolish a space around the corner at 620 Emerson St. Nobu is seeking architectural review to build a two-story, 4,240-square-foot restaurant there, project plans show.
Nobu confirmed the expansion but said "we do not have additional details at this time."
The dining room at Nobu Palo Alto. Photo by Michelle Le.
The city planner for the project, Samuel Gutierrez, said that Nobu has proposed to connect the ground-floor restaurant to the Emerson Street space, which was most recently occupied by Stanford Florists. The plans also include a proposal to build a "green roof" on the second floor, with a skylight in the dining room exposing the planted roof above.
The project is subject to review by the Architectural Review Board and will require a public hearing, which Gutierrez said will occur in the coming weeks after the city sends formal comments to the applicant.
Nobu opened in Palo Alto, its first Northern California location, this summer.
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