It’s tough for a restaurant to strike the right balance between upscale and inviting, but Sunnyvale's Tarragon has found it. The deliberately exposed brick walls and white tablecloths tell you that your meal comes courtesy of culinary masters. The missing chandelier tells you that the waiters are happy to help you pick a wine to […]

Mead, cyser, braggot. A few hundred years ago, people didn’t just know what these beverages were, they drank them as frequently as wine. Sunnyvale's Rabbit's Food Meadery offers you the chance to get to know these tasty drinks in the twenty first century. They're all honey based beverages: mead is a honey wine, cyser is […]

It can be easy to take that 32 gigabyte iPhone for granted, but it’s still astonishing that the little tool in our pockets possesses more power than a machine that covered hundreds of square feet just a few decades ago. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View helps put whatever device you’re reading this on […]

You might expect Bogart’s Lounge & Tech Pub to be an intimidating virtual reality wonderland. Or maybe a nighttime business incubator or specialized spot for VCs to rub elbows! But Bogart’s is your nighttime fun house, replete with pool tables, karaoke, and Wi-Fi: the “tech” part of Tech Pub. Karaoke's popular at Bogart’s. Women can […]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. In fact, replicate it! Before there was Jake’s of Sunnyvale, there was Jake’s of Saratoga, a good ol’ straight-to-the-point pizza shop that served up traditional combinations of cheese, dough, meat, and veggies to all the right specifications. The original was so successful that management decided to proliferate south […]

If the last time you found yourself in a planetarium was during that 10th-grade field trip, then it’s high time you headed back. The Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino offers more thrills than just the pinhole-lighted ceiling accompanied by a dry lecturer you knew from middle school. The planetarium's astronomy presentations use state-of-the-art fiber optics technology […]

You won’t get there in a yellow NYC Taxi or the MTA, but Giovanni’s Pizzeria does offer one of the best incarnations of New York-style pizza in Silicon Valley. At the core of New York’s culinary staple is a thin, crispy crust, light enough to distinguish itself from its heavyweight Chicago counterpart, but sturdy enough […]