Area Dining and Attractions
The towns of Menlo Park and Palo Alto offer streets lined with abundant trees and attractive boutiques. Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto is a spectacular open-air mall. The food and wines of the region are legendary, and there are many outstanding restaurants serving cuisine to suit any taste.
To learn more about shopping, dining, and other activities in the area, you may want to consult the following Web sites:
Stanford Shopping Center Open-air mall of 144 stores amidst gardens and sculptures
MetroActive Dining
Restaurant listings and reviews, and links to music and arts events
Palo Alto Live
Shopping, entertainment, and events guide for the Palo Alto area
Palo Alto Online
News, events, shopping, restaurants, lodging, and more for the Palo Alto area
San Jose Mercury News
Online version of the San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper of Silicon Valley
San Francisco Chronicle
Online version of the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Visitors’ Bureau
Information about lodging, dining, and events in San Francisco
SFTravel.com
Independent guide to what’s worth seeing and how to avoid the lamest tourist traps in San Francisco, with in-depth hotel reviews from past visitors, and restaurants and activities
San Francisco Travel & Tourism
Guide with hotels, maps, photos, activities, visitor attractions, and more to help you plan a successful visit to the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Classical Voice
The Bay Area’s online journal of classical music criticism with reviews of musical performances in the greater Bay Area; its performance calendar lists events for the current and following month in five regions, usually including links to the presenters’ Web sites