Downtown Palo Alto, California Restaurants - Bistro Maxine

Excellent dining is right next door to our Palo Alto, California hotel at Bistro Maxine, a creperie/café that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Cardinal Breakfast, which is available Monday - Friday 7am-11am, Saturday 8am-11am and Sunday 9am-11am. for $12.95 consists of coffee, fresh squeezed orange juice, small fruit salad, and choice of eggs, omelettes, scrambles, "crepe short stack", breakfast croissant sandwich or pastry, yogurt and granola.

Guests who prefer something lighter can opt for our $8.95 continental breakfast that features coffee, small orange juice, small fruit salad and chocie of pastry (or) yogurt and granola. For those on the go, we provide a breakfast croissant sandwich and coffee. The lunch and dinner menu encompasses salads and savory dessert crepes. Bistro Maxine also offers coffee drinks, beer, wine, and cider. Their coffee and espresso beans are from Barefoot Coffee Roasters, artisan roasters of organic, shade grown, and fair trade coffees in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Downtown Palo Alto Restaurants -

Bistro Maxine and the Osteria are located in the same building as the Cardinal Hotel. Within blocks,you'll have your choice of many equally fine dining establishments. Just walk the downtown streets and discover all varieties of cuisine, from Italian to Mexican to Thai.

Restaurant
: Bistro Maxine

Cuisine
: French / Creperie

Phone
: 650-323-1815

We like
: Barefoot coffee served in traditional latte bowls, goat cheese, mushrooms and spinach crepe on buckwheat batter, housemade butternut squash soup, ham and cheese baguette sandwich (or ham and brie).
Restaurant
: Osteria

Cuisine
: Italian

Phone
: 650-328-5700

We like
: house salad (amazing house dressing), carpaccio, poached salmon and all veal dishes, nice wine list reasonably priced, the two principal chefs have been in the kitchen since they opened 30 years ago, Also – the quintessential Italian server charming his regulars for over 20 years.
Restaurant
: Reposado

Cuisine
: Mexican

Phone
: 650-833-3151

We like
: Happy Hour Monday-Friday 4-6pm. $5 margaritas. Half price for delicious Housemade Guacamole and all appetizers, expert selected tequila menu, excellent "street tacos", mole, and red snapper.
Restaurant
: Peninsula Creamery

Cuisine
: American

Phone
: 650-323-3175

We like
: old fashion milkshakes, all sandwiches especially Ruben, patty melt and BLT, huevos rancheros, French toast with bread baked daily on site.

Restaurant
: Thaiphoon

Cuisine
: Thai

Phone
: 650-323-7700

We like
: Green curry chicken, Thaiphoon lettuce wrap and chicken satay, outside seating
Restaurant
: Gordon Biersch

Cuisine
: American

Phone
: 650-323-7723

We like
: Beer brewed on location, excellent beer selection, fish tacos, homemade potato chips, wedge salad, pulled pork sandwich.
Restaurant
Tamarine

Cuisine
: Vietnamese

Phone
650-325-8500

We like
: fabulous hip, chic décor, the bar, crab wonton soup, hoisin lamb chops, lemongrass sea bass.
Restaurant
: Evvia

Cuisine
Greek

Phone
: 650-326-0983

We like
: rustic, ethnic setting, open kitchen, anything with lamb, moussaka, excellent wine list.