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How Buck's of Woodside Became the 'Cheers' of Silicon Valley (2014)
- SlipperySlope 8y agoI go for a meal every time I visit the valley.
- nwatson 8y agoEvery Bay Area visit I go back to (a) Shalimar in the Tenderloin and (b) Nini's Cafe in San Mateo near Burlingame. Former has lost some of its buzz but latter going strong still and hasn't changed much in 30 years and I saw many mid peninsula startup folks there through the years.
- hkmurakami 8y agoShame that Woodside bakery and cafe next door closed. (Though it’s back in some kind of fancier upscale form under different owners now?)
- randycupertino 8y agoAww man... sorry to hear Woodside Bakery closed. That place had the best pastries. Great place to bike ride to and get a treat halfway through your ride.
- rmason 8y agoBuck's is a pretty nice place and the food is actually quite good. Far better than SF's deal making hotspot, the Creamery, where parking is also hard to find.
- drewda 8y agoThe Creamery is right across the street from Caltrain and MUNI. Why drive? Plus, a $3 beer on their patio is a fine way to pass the time to wait until the next train.
- mmt 8y ago> Why drive? Besides the usual arguments against public transit, such as schedule inflexibility, comfort, and cost[1], there's overall trip time. Unless your other endpoint is similarly close to a Caltrain "bullet" stop (and one is taking such a "bullet" train), driving takes less time on a typical day (and always during any off-peak period). [1] Primarily for ad-hoc trips, and especially acute for dual-occupancy cars. For two people, Lawrence Caltrain to the Creamery would cost $19 more by train than incremental cost of driving. (Ignoring parking costs.. which, if more than $24.50 near the Creamery would, indeed, wipe out the savings).
- SQL2219 8y agoPicks & shovels.
- randycupertino 8y agoWhat?? The Dutch Goose is the Cheers of Silicon Valley. C'mon people, geeze.
- Scoundreller 8y agonon-amp link: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-bucks-of-woodside-became-the-cheers-of-silicon-valley/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-bucks-of-woodside-b...
- ChuckMcM 8y agoThe Hobee's restaurant at 85 and Stevens Creek was a pretty interesting hot spot in the 90's as well. It was easy to get there and from there back to Sand Hill Road. Many times eating breakfast there you would see a booth with some guy sitting there casually in designer sport wear listening while another guy in an ill fitting suit was extolling the virtues of some pitch using Harvard Graphics on a bulky laptop. Now it would be an iPad no doubt but back then it was darn difficult to carry around a decent multimedia presentation :-).