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Are restaurants what make a city great? Some might say its businesses and activities while others would tout its opportunities and quality of life, but nearly every equation includes great places to eat distinctive foods in comfortable surroundings. Here at HelloSanJose.com, you'll find just that ... and much more, including those places that local residents tend to keep to themselves.
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A step inside the 150-seat main dining room at MacArthur Park Palo Alto is a step back to 1918, the year the building opened. Today, high-end comfort foods are served in the landmark building.
Dwarfed by modern high-rise office buildings just off Highway 101 at the Great America Parkway exit in Santa Clara, Pedro’s looks decidedly out of place. But its success in capturing the warmth of an Old Mexico hacienda despite the proximity to its cold corporate neighbors is part of its appeal.
LB Steak is the first restaurant you see driving along Santana Row, San Jose’s premier shopping and dining district, and it’s one of the best. There’s plenty of sizzle on the entire menu, but there’s a reason why steak is in the restaurant’s name. Every beef item on the menu uses only USDA Prime Beef, the highest grade, which accounts for only two percent of beef produced in the U.S.
The Grill on the Alley is a step back, several generations back. It’s inside the modern Fairmont Hotel in the heart of resurgent downtown San Jose, but does a nice job of recapturing the food and the mood of the big-city dinner clubs and grills of the 1940s.