Oakland’s Kincaid’s closes after 33 years
Kincaid’s Fish, Chop & Steakhouse, the Jack London Square restaurant with the legendary waterfront views, has abruptly closed. It had been in business for 33 years.
A sign on the door thanked people for their patronage and said the closing was permanent. Kincaid’s was known for its seafood, including everything from lobster bisque and pan-seared shellfish fettucine to calamari and thick clam chowder.
The parent company, Restaurants Unlimited, filed for bankruptcy in July and shuttered one of its other Bay Area restaurants, Stanford’s, in Walnut Creek’s Broadway Plaza. Houston-based Landry’s, which owns Bubba Gump, Morton Steakhouse and Mccormick & Schmick’s restaurant brands, purchased Restaurants Unlimited shortly after it filed for bankrupcy.
Kincaid’s sister restaurants still line local waterfronts: Skates on the Bay in Berkeley, Horatio’s in San Leandro, Palomino along San Francisco’s Embarcadero and Kincaid’s in Burlingame. A call to confirm the status of that location was not immediately returned.
Teleferic Barcelona now open in Palo Alto
More than three years after opening its first U.S. location in Walnut Creek, Spain’s lively Teleferic Barcelona is now tempting Peninsula diners with tapas.
The paella and pintxos palace has taken over a prime spot
at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto — the former Calafia restaurant — and opened to the public last week.
Working with the group’s executive chef, Oscar Cabezas, at this location is executive chef Eva de Gil, a veteran of China’s “The Real Master Chef.”
What sets Palo Alto apart from the debut restaurant is the addition of a Spanish mercado selling imported goods such as jamón ibérico, olive oil, cheeses and wines.
Siblings and owners Xavi and Maria Padrosa, the children of Teleferic’s Basque-born chef matriarch, moved to the United States to oversee the Bay Area operation, along with Cabezas. East Bay developer Brian Hirahara’s love of tapas brought that first U.S. venture to Walnut Creek.
In Spain, Xavi and Maria’s mother, Soledad Urabayen, opened the family’s first restaurant, Rondes, more than two decades ago in Sant Cugat del Vallès. It was later nicknamed Teleferic Barcelona, after a toy gondola at the eatery’s entrance. (Teleferic means a gondola lift or cable car.)
In Palo Alto the restaurant space was transformed by Tarruella Trenchs, a European interior design firm.
DETAILS » Open from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily at 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. www.telefericbarcelona.com
Brew City Grill set to open Monday in Campbell
The sign’s been up on Campbell’s Hamilton Avenue for months, the beer taps have been installed — and finally an opening day is in sight.
Brew City Grill, a new gastropub from longtime South Bay restaurateurs, is scheduled to open Monday at the Alvin’s Corner complex near San Tomas Expressway.
It’s a new concept from partners Matt Westley and John Holder, who also operate Uncle John’s Pancake House in Campbell — a retro/modern version of the 1957 restaurant that launched the Holder family’s empire.
This new full-service venture from the pair will launch with a menu of upscale pizzas, burgers and fries, appetizers, salads — and 24 regional craft beers on tap.
Westley says customers can expect burgers made from Harris Ranch beef with house-made pickles on locally baked buns; California artisanal pizzas topped with locally sourced tomato sauce; and a selection of fries — garlic, truffle and Buffalo style.
The initial tap lineup features such breweries as the Bay Area’s Fieldwork, Hapa’s, Golden State, Altamont, Seismic, Hop Dogma, Original Pattern, Strike, Temescal, Almanac, Faction and Barebottle along with beers from Belching Beaver, Dust Bowl, Stone, New Glory, Modern Times, Pizza Port, Track 7 and The Booth.
Brew City Grill will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with brunch hours in the coming months.
DETAILS » 651 W. Hamilton Ave., Campbell; www.brewcitygrill.com