Sunnyvale Black Angus to serve its last steak on May 31
Black Angus is shutting down its Sunnyvale restaurant after 40 years of serving steaks, sides, warm molasses bread and cocktails at 740 E. El Camino Real.
But it has allowed plenty of time for customers to make a few final visits. The location will close at the end of business May 31.
“We are grateful to all our guests, whether you celebrated a birthday, anniversary, holiday or any old Tuesday with us,” the restaurant’s “Saying Goodbye to Sunnyvale” note to customers reads. “We will miss you!”
The restaurant opened at this site in 1979.
Luckily for fans, there are two other Black Angus locations in the South Bay (275 Ranch Drive in Milpitas and 1011 Blossom Hill Road in San Jose), along with five others in the East Bay (Dublin, Brentwood, San Lorenzo, Pleasant Hill and Vallejo).
Corporate representatives for Black Angus did not respond to questions about the Sunnyvale closure.
The Southern Californiabased restaurant chain was founded in Seattle in 1964 by Stuart Anderson and now owns about 45 locations.
DETAILS >> 408-245-4501; www. blackangus.com.
Yard House opens new location in Concord
Yard House, a massive beer and food destination, opened at The Veranda shopping center in Concord last week.
This second Bay Area location for the chain arrives eight years after the first, at San Jose’s Santana Row. The 16,000-squarefoot restaurant seats 430 customers inside and outside.
The Concord taps feature a number of local brews — Affliction Amber from Concord’s Epidemic Ales, Oaktown from Calicraft of Walnut Creek and Smooth Ride from Del Cielo Brewing of Martinez — as well as state, national and international choices.
Those brews are held at 36 to 38 degrees in a glass-enclosed keg room and delivered to the restaurant’s central bar via more than 2 miles of beer lines.
The massive menu is heavy on beer-friendly snacks, appetizers, pizza and street tacos but also offers a number of entrees, salads and more. Any surplus food is donated to local food banks, a Yard House spokeswoman said.
Launched in Long Beach, the chain has grown to about 20 restaurants in Southern California and about 50 in other states, with concentrations in Florida and Texas. Las Vegas has three.
DETAILS » Open at 11 a.m. daily; closes 12:30 a.m. Sunday-Thursday, 1:20 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 2005 Diamond Blvd., Concord. www.yardhouse.com.
Olympic champion Jonny Moseley opens Marin bar
Freestyle skiing legend Jonny Moseley, who grew up in Marin County, has another title to add to his impressive resume: restaurateur.
Tamalpie pizzeria owner Karen Goldberg has partnered with Moseley to create Moseley’s Spirits and Sports, a new neighborhood lounge, bar and eatery at the Tamal Vista shopping plaza in Corte Madera, where Goldberg opened her second Tamalpie pizzeria.
“I’m looking forward to making Moseley’s my base camp and bringing the community together for trivia nights, speaker series, post-softball game parties and good times all around,” says Moseley, a 1998 Olympic gold medalist.
The two walls of windows illuminating the interior are pleasantly at odds with the typical sports bar scene that can be more about hunkering down in dim light in front of the TV. In this case, the screens are supersized and there are 11 so there’s not a bad seat in the house. Gone are the heavy wood tables adhered to steel I-beams that lined the main dining area, replaced by round high-tops for easy high-five maneuvering. Or settle into a booth, grab a table in the heated beer garden or relax on the patio in front of the fire pit in the family-friendly space.
Want to get in on the action rather than merely view it? Step away to a separate section with two pool tables, shuffleboard, darts, classic video games and
bar fun like “Liar’s Dice.”
Chef Evan Crowder, most recently executive sous chef at Nashville’s Etch restaurant, has been hired to execute the creative sports bar menu. A few Tamalpie items remain, including Goldberg’s signature pizza made with a slow-rise crust. Snacks include chicken wings, grilled artichokes and savory meatballs. Or go for green with salads like Gold Medal Goddess with butter lettuce, avocado, pistachios, lemon creme fraiche dressing and herbs to which rotisserie chicken or ahi tuna can be added. Hot sandwiches such as buttermilk fried chicken and the Back Country Burger and a couple of entrees round out the menu.
Rows of specialty cocktail spirits line the windows at the
30-foot, black steel bar. Eight craft beers are on tap and six more are in cans and bottles. The wine menu is limited to just under 20 varieties.
Happy hour and late-night eats are served until closing time and a weekend brunch menu is forthcoming.
DETAILS » Open from 3:30 p.m. to midnight Monday-Thursday, noon to midnight Friday-Saturday, noon to 10 p.m. Sundays. 55 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415-704-7437, moseleysmarin. com.