Food + Beverage

A LONG TABLE ON RAMONA

How David Linares and Elizabeth Reviriego built the Spanish dining room they could not find anywhere else in Palo Alto. Article and Photography by Twelve years ago, David Linares and Elizabeth Reviriego met in London. They were Spaniards working in other people's restaurants, far from home. They opened a place in Madrid. Then they came to California and built their own on Ramona Street. David and Elizabeth had worked in hospitality since they were teenagers. He started at sixteen. She left...

Fitness

Callum Parker | Kalos After Cambridge

From a Cambridge scholarship to a storefront on Forest Avenue. Article and Photography by At seventeen, Callum Parker won the Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship to Cambridge. The Wellington newspaper called him a maths whiz. He read economics at Gonville and Caius. In his final term he tried running, set strong times almost immediately, and was on the New Zealand World Athletics roster soon after. In July 2021, racing for the silver fern, he ran 800 meters in 1:55.49. He was twenty-three. He had...

Fitness

Taekwon Kids

How Master Chin turned a dream into a dojo that funds programs around the world. Article and Photography by In 2000, Master Chin Sonu first brought taekwondo into mission work. The trip was a short-term church mission to a small town called Chinle, about four hours from Tijuana. He had been a software engineer for a decade and teaching taekwondo on his nights and weekends nearly as long. On the trip he assisted an older taekwondo master through a week of classes for the village children. The...

Style + Beauty

THIS IS WHERE I TAKE HER

Ellie's standing list, for the friend who comes once a year. Article and Photography by I have friends from all over the world who come to visit me in Palo Alto. This is mostly because I’m such an advocate for the Bay! Over the years, I’ve built a perfect little running itinerary for when someone's in town. It’s less a list than a route. Where we start. Blue Bottle on University on a Saturday morning. I grab a matcha and we sit outside on the patio to catch up. A walk worth taking. ...

Home + Design

THE HOUSE AROUND THE OAK

A Saratoga rebuild that left the tree standing. Photography by Drew Kelly A couple in Saratoga had a half-acre lot with a protected oak tree on it, and four grown daughters. They were ready to rebuild the house. Every architect they consulted drew a two-story plan, the standard answer when a heritage tree on the lot forces a builder vertical. Cynthia Spence Design looked at the same lot and proposed something different: a one-story modern farmhouse that wraps around the tree instead of...

Home + Design

FROM NEW DELHI TO PALO ALTO

Twenty years of Indian textiles. Three years of Marigold Row. Photography by Karina Pemberton At Marigold Row, a shop on the Town & Country side of El Camino, Anita Mehta is unfolding a piece of cloth that someone in a village outside Kolkata stitched together by hand. She runs a finger along a seam where two older fabrics have been joined. The technique is called Kantha, the Indian habit of refusing to throw a good cloth away. A grandmother's sari starts to wear through. Two layers are laid...

Home Services

Close to Home

Close to HomePalo Alto takes the spotlight in the latest episode of ADU Adventures, and what the show finds here says something quietly flattering about the town, and about the way its families build.Ask around Palo Alto and you'll hear a familiar set of questions, usually raised quietly, often at the kitchen table. Where will Mom and Dad live as they get older, close enough to help but still independent? Where does a grown child land while saving for a place of their own in one of the most...

Home Services

Putting a Face to the Build

For a lot of families around Palo Alto, the backyard has quietly become the answer to a question they've been carrying for years. Where will Mom and Dad live as they get older, close enough to help but still independent? Where does a grown kid land while saving for a place of their own? How does a family stay close, actually close, same-property close, without anyone giving up the life they've built?More and more, the answer is an accessory dwelling unit: a second, fully independent home in the...

Life + Culture

A Global Perspective on Local Living

Connecting our community through curated art, flavor, and purposeful service. Article and Photography by The European Muse From the halls of the Louvre in Paris to the castles of Ireland and Norway's fjords, my travels shape my eye for beauty. I bring that global inspiration home to you. The Baker's Art Baking is my first language and greatest skill. Whether crafting custom cakes or practicing watercolor at Gamble Garden, I believe in the power of creating something beautiful and tactile...

Food + Beverage

Under the Olive Trees

A quiet afternoon at the Rooftop at RH Palo Alto. Photography by Courtesy of RH The easiest way to explain the building at 180 El Camino Real is to say what it is not. It is not a store in any of the familiar senses of the word. It does not look like one from the sidewalk, and it does not behave like one once you go in. It is four stories tall, built from stone and glass, with twelve-foot olive trees in iron planters at the entrance and a cascading fountain carved from Biancone limestone at...