Media Reviews

Nov. 21, 2001 Food San Francisco Chronicle
What's New
Openings

Trader Vic's sails into the South Bay

Palo Alto now has its own Trader Vic's which opened last weekend in a splashy new venue adjoining Dinah's Garden Hotel. The airy and spacious tiki art-filled building, decorated in Pacific Island colors, fabrics and woods, is the first branch of the Emeryville-based restaurant, which includes a large bar and lounge features a voluminous menu of traditional Trader Vic's favorites, with a few twists. Starters range from golden fried prawns and beef cho-cho on bamboo skewers to the cosmo salad of artichoke, celery and mushrooms in a mustard cream dressing.

Entrees include the signature Chinatown duck, an Asian-inspired pot au feu, and four varieties of Calcutta curries. Free-range chicken, salmon, Indonesian rack of lamb, Chinese ribs and several other dishes are smoked in a wood-fired oven that dates back more than 2,000 years to the Han dynasty.

Trader Vics at Dinah's Garden Hotel
4269 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA.
(650) 849-9800
Dinner nightly - Full bar
Reservation accepted

Starters, $8.50-$16
entrees, $17.50 - $38
desserts, $5.

San Francisco Examiner
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
P.J. Corkery

Trader Vic's sails into the South Bay

Info gladly given ...

Big Party in Palo Alto: The new Trader Vic's on the bosky grounds of Dinah's Garden Hotel opened over the weekend. Was supposed to have been a very soft opening. There weren't even any signs up. But the news hit the Big Game and in came the Cardinal and the Cal types, clamoring for Mai Tais, Fog-Cutters and all manner of healing waters. This Trader Vic's has been three years in the planning. Well worth the wait...