A Southern California-based boba and tea chain and a tapas lounge in Burlingame are among the many newest additions to the Peninsula eating scene.
Five new eating places have joined San Mateo County’s eating scene, providing up a wide range of cuisines and dishes starting from congee and tea to Japanese pastries. In Burlingame, El Quetzal dishes up Guatemalan consolation meals, Sunright Tea Studio serves sunny SoCal-inspired boba and fruit teas, and Society Bar and Restaurant presents Mediterranean fare at a hookah lounge. Meanwhile, San Mateo has a brand new Cantonese restaurant with an in depth menu and Belmont has a brand new Japanese bakery and cafe.
El Quetzal, Burlingame
El Quetzal serves Guatemalan-style breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfasts embody huevos rancheros, plus eggs with chorizo, ham and sausage, pork and rooster tamales and pupusas. Lunches and dinners are served with rice, beans and salad and embody carne asada, caldo de res, or beef stew and pepian de gallina, a rooster stew.
The menu is in Spanish and the restaurant is cash-only, based on an early Yelp evaluate.
El Quetzal comida Guatemalteca, 216 California Drive, Burlingame; 650-669-2972.
Society Bar and Restaurant, Burlingame
This hookah and tapas lounge is a brand new idea and design that started this yr, providing Mediterranean, Italian and Greek delicacies, based on worker Ali Cangez. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner and presents quite a lot of packages with cake and/or champagne to assist individuals have fun. The menu has appetizers together with truffle burrata, crab cake, waffle fries, and marinated fried Brussels sprouts with pecorino and citrus. Spreads embody tzatziki, lachano, tirokafteri and ezme, plus salads, pizzas and an assortment of entrees together with shashlik, spice-marinated tenderloin skewers with shallot and rosemary, and rooster Parmigiana. They additionally supply home hookah taste mixes, wine and beer.
They don’t take reservations and the costume code is “casual chic” inspired and “dress to impress” (no sportswear, no swimsuits or sandals for males). The area is for the 21-and-up crowd apart from a entrance eating space that’s family-friendly.
Society Bar and Restaurant, 1130 Broadway, Burlingame; 650-581-1569, Instagram: @takemetosociety.
Sunright Tea Studio, Burlingame
This Southern California-based tea store is increasing its rising empire into Northern California with the latest opening of its Burlingame location. Others are already up and operating in Sunnyvale, Union City and Milpitas. The tea store encourages prospects to shake their drinks exactly 17 occasions earlier than ingesting it, “not just because it’s our tried-and-true method of blending the flavors and textures perfectly, but also because we want you to stop and savor a happy moment,” based on its web site.
The tea store makes a speciality of ceylon black tea, jasmine inexperienced tea, roasted oolong and Four Seasons, an oolong varietal, because the bases that pair with completely different components, flavors and textures, and presents teas with non-dairy milk and Yakult, a probiotic milk beverage.
Sunright Tea Studio, 346 Lorton Ave., Burlingame; 650-437-2959, Instagram: @sunrightteastudio.norcal.
Hing Lung, San Mateo
This Cantonese restaurant in San Mateo is in its tender opening section and comes with an in depth menu, from vegetarian-friendly choices like deep-fried pumpkin and eggplant with spicy sauce to meat dishes like pig liver with greens and wolfberries, often known as goji berries. They’ve additionally received an in depth menu of 15 forms of congee, or rice porridge, served with dace fish and greens, do-it-yourself meatballs or Hainan-style rooster amongst different choices. Though it shares the identical identify because the Hing Lung Cafe on Grand Avenue in South San Francisco, it’s underneath completely different possession.
Hing Lung, 96 E. 4th Ave., San Mateo; 650-343-6988.
Jiro Cafe & Bakery, Belmont
Taking over the spot of a former Ike’s Lair location, the brand new Jiro Cafe & Bakery presents Japanese snacks and is working via its tender opening section. The bakery and cafe is already drawing crowds, and a few objects promote out early.
On the heartier aspect of the menu are the tonkatsu sando, made with breaded pork, cabbage, and tomato sauce on fresh-baked bread; gyudon over rice, tri-tip cooked with caramelized onions, pink wine, rice wine and soy sauce; and yakisoba pan, Japanese fried noodles in bread. Pastries embody melon pan, a candy bread made with enriched dough and a layer of cookie dough; anpan, a candy roll usually full of pink bean paste; and cornets and challah, amongst different objects. Drinks embody a wide range of lattes, sodas and teas.
Jiro Cafe & Bakery, 1094 Alameda De Las Pulgas, Belmont; 650-665-0557, Instagram: @jirocafe.
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