We bid goodbye to our server Christian, restaurant GM Ilya and of course the charismatic owner Giuseppe who kindly walked us to the front door and thanked us profusely for coming to dinner. The ever smiling Giuseppe took a few photos of us together on the patio. The sun had set and the horizon looked astounding. My wife wasn’t overly fussed on her Butterscotch Budino because she thought the flavor was not intense enough. a Golden Road Brewery Hefeweizen from L.A and it tasted very nice. I was surprised she didn’t go for the Chocolate Torte. It is half the fun ! My wife chose the Butterscotch Budino because it sounded interesting. We seldom dine at restaurants without a good dessert menu. We had earlier looked at the dessert menu online and it looked acceptable. I quite enjoyed my Filet Mignon even though I rarely eat beef steaks these days. My wife was happy with her Lobster Ravioli. A lot more people were milling into the restaurant around 6pm and a nice mixture of background music was oozing out of their sound system. My Filet Mignon was cooked exactly the way I wanted and the Smashed Potatoes tasted very nice.

Our entrees arrived together and looked splendid. my wife didn’t care for my Calamari appetizer because it could interfere with her dessert ambitions. My Calamari hit the table and tasted pretty good. Giuseppe the owner came by to have a bit of a chat with us and kindly posed for pics with us. medium well done which came by itself ( a la carte ) so I needed something with it and selected a side of Smashed Potatoes. I chose a serve of Calamari Con Limone for my appetizer and my wife ordered Fresh Maine Lobster Ravioli for her entree. It’s all about cocktails these days ! After a few minutes we worked out our choices for dinner. They didn’t have much of a choice in craft beer sadly. We needed some time to digest their dinner menu so I ordered a Grandview IPA after Christian had offered to fetch me a sample. There were a cluster of diners already seated at tables not far from us but overall the restaurant was mostly empty at this early time.Ī smartly dressed server named Christian came by our table to take our order. turns out he was the owner Giuseppe Carrubba and he handed us over to Ilya the restaurant GM who showed us to a table with a view to die for. We fronted at the host desk and a gentleman noted our reservation. baby grand piano in the corner near the bar. We wandered around outside for a bit checking out the view and then entered through the front door.Ī lot of old world charm going on. It certainly looked a grand old structure with a gob smacking view of half the planet. Eventually we arrived just before 5pm and parked our car out front.

Red Tailed Hawks and maybe even Eagles were appearing overhead everywhere and the narrow road was getting scarier by the minute. We jumped in our rental SUV and headed off into unknown territory.

We managed to secure a reservation at 5pm. What a great idea so we phoned ahead and sure enough they would be open. They said it had incredible views and the a la carte menu was very good though a little pricey. Then we remembered that 2 Apple IT dudes sitting next to us at a restaurant on our previous trip recommended a place called The Grandview Restaurant. We found another coffee shop open but what could we do for dinner tonight. First up the coffee shop where we intended to have lunch was closed and then after checking further we found out the restaurant where we intended to have dinner on Monday evening was also closed. We had already decided where we wanted to have dinner both evenings but daaaah forgot that there are small local businesses that like to give their workers the day off. My wife and I flew into San Jose for a 2 day work related visit on a Monday ( Labor Day ) not long back.

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