Athena Grill

The recent post on “Specialty Sandwiches and Bakery” woke up my lazy bones into posting this review which I have wanted to for a long time. Athena grill is a greek restaurant also near Scott and San Tomas intersection. It does not serve just your standard Mediterranean fare like Falafel …

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Specialty Sandwiches and Bakery

I am just coming back from having lunch at Specialty Sandwiches in Santa Clara. I liked the place and hence I thought I would post a review since there are quite some of us who work in this area. You can preorder online at http://www.specialtysdirect.com or you can use the …

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Swati Tiffins-Cheap Good South Indian Food

Swathi Tiffins Located at the intersection of Lawrence and Central Expwy West next to Namaste Plaza offers good South Indian Food at reasonable prices…. Its surprising that most KVites who live in Sunnyvale-Santa Clara dont know about this place. This place is one of the few places that is open …

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Dosa Place

This weekend we visited Dosa Place for a snack. Its a nice joint opened at 2665 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051 Its at intersection of Keily n El Camino in the Pizza Hut complex….. Food it will be unfair to comment on as we tried just the mysore …

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Mitchell’s Ice Cream

Mitchell’s Ice Cream located at 688 San Jose Avenue (at 29th Street) San Francisco CA 94110.. Is a family owned ice cream store in SF…..they have many fruit based flavors..loved their Mango flavor that has chunks of mango…..and Buca(Baby Coconut) with coconut flakes… These ice cream taste very similar to …

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Italian and Middle Eastern Cuisine

Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant Chain….awesome Italian food that was better than Olive Garden….also more expensive We really enjoyed their Garlic Bread, Garlic Smashed Potatoes for Appitizers Gnocchi al Telefono n Manicotti for Entrees and Tira,isu for Dessert…..their portion sizes are huge ….HUGE……..small portion orders should be fine. Ambience is …

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Yan Can – Asian Cuisine

We went to this asian cuisine located in Rivermark plaza and we really enjoyed the food. Not only is the serving size good enough for two people generally, the dishes are also relatively inexpensive. The food is good and I think they even make the non-veg dishes veg on request. …

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Layang Layang Malaysian

If you are tired of going to Banana Leaf in Milpitas, but still want to eat Malaysian food, then there’s a good place for Malaysian food for folks in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino etc. Layang Layang is a small, but a hustle bustle restaurant on De-Anza blvd close to 85. …

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Temptations-Indian Chinese Fusion Restaurant

We recently visited Temptations-Indian Chinese Fusion Restaurant on Castro Street in Mountain View…….hold your breath before your mouth starts watering on the very thought of “Desi Chinese”…..It has a large variety to choose from……of the 5 items that we ordered we give tango to 3…..veg frankie was great(a different version …

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