José Andrés, acclaimed chef and founding father of the humanitarian World Central Kitchen, will open a restaurant in Palo Alto — his culinary group’s first such enterprise in Northern California.
The eatery will open later this yr or in early 2024 at Stanford Procuring Middle, in line with a joint announcement by the José Andrés Group and the Simon Property Group, the middle’s proprietor, as first reported by the San Francisco Enterprise Instances. Two new eating places are additionally deliberate for Las Vegas.
No particulars had been launched concerning the kind of restaurant or the placement on the middle. JAG’s 19 restaurant ideas embody upscale eating places, informal spots and bars. At New York’s Hudson Yards, a number of eateries and kiosks are clustered at Andrés’ Mercado Little Spain. Six eating places function in Washington, D.C., the place JAG is headquartered. And the group has 5 ideas within the Los Angeles space, together with Agua Viva, a rooftop restaurant.
Nevertheless, Andrés is not any stranger to Silicon Valley.
Beginning in 2010, he made occasional visits to lecture and prepare dinner on the prestigious Worldwide Culinary Middle’s Bay Space campus in his function as dean of the Spanish research program. The Campbell academy closed in 2018.
And in 2020, the person who has made a mission of feeding the world’s hungry and displaced obtained the John Steinbeck Award from San Jose State College — an honor that goes to artists and activists who, by means of their work, embody the spirit of the writer’s social engagement. Due to the pandemic, the ceremony was a digital one, with Andres showing from D.C.
Over the past a number of years, each the pandemic and wildfires have introduced Andrés and his World Central Kitchen workforce to the Bay Space to serve meals. Notably, in March 2020, when the Grand Princess, the cruise ship tormented by the coronavirus, arrived on the Port of Oakland, they had been ready dockside with meals for the passengers. In late summer time of that yr, they mobilized to feed victims of the Northern California blazes and firefighters, as that they had throughout earlier hearth seasons.
Particulars: 660 Stanford Procuring Middle, Palo Alto; https://joseandres.com/ and www.simon.com/