Category Archives: Lifestyle

Restaurant Scene: May 2025

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Max Hauser

Simply Sabor is the newest restaurant tenant inside Ava’s Market, 340 Castro, offering Mexican specialties. A license-change notice at 475 Castro (a dormant Korean table-top grilling restaurant) has shown a pending new business “Yakiniku Ginza”.  Yakiniku is a related grilled-food … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood MIXER – Monday, April 28th

Posted on April 19, 2025 by OMVNA

A key Old MTV Eventor goal is to bring our community together. And it’s time to do it with snacks.  Our first mixer of the year is at Mediterranean Grill House at 650 Castro St Monday, April 28th at 5:30 … Continue reading →

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Restaurant Scene: February 2025

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Max Hauser

New downtown-MV restaurants galore! (Listed as usual in approximate order of opening, projected opening, or other news.) Venerable popular Mediterranean Grill House (650 Castro #110, https://www.mediterraneangrillhouse.com/) undertook remodeling in December for “a new coffee and tea and dessert section called … Continue reading →

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Restaurant Scene: October 2024

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Max Hauser

216 Castro’s Quality Bourbons & Barbecue or QBB (BBQ spelled backwards, not by chance), which opened September 2017, celebrated its last day September 25 (thanks to Mark Flider for the tip). QBB’s managing partner John Andino, whom I first met … Continue reading →

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Plant-based Microbakery in OMV

Posted on August 24, 2024 by OMVNA

by Stephanie LinA new plant-based microbakery making small batches of artisanal baked goods based out of Old Mountain View has been delighting the local community with its delicious treats. For the last decade, the owner was working a corporate desk … Continue reading →

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