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San Jose's Oryza Bistro has a No.1 (Football) Fan
San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis definitely knows his
way around a football field.
But these days, he's also happily finding his bearings around the menu at his apparently new favorite restaurant - Oryza Bistro at the Westfield Valley Fair shopping center in San Jose. The pan-Asian restaurant, is located on the ground floor behind the parking structure between the two Macy's stores. No. 85 eats there often.The brawny 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound athlete is partial to the dainty string beans amandine (with toasted almonds, charred cherry tomatoes, soy sauce and shrimp paste; $8.95), which he tweeted excitedly about. I learned of his fondness for the restaurant from a mention made in the Tablehopper e-newsletter. So, when I was invited to dine as a guest of the restaurant, I had my eyes on the alert. As luck would have it, he walked in with a female companion as my husband and I were finishing our dinner. The waitstaff greeted him like an old friend as he took a seat in a booth. Click here to read more about my night at Oryza Bistro, the food and the 49ers' Vernon Davis. |
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Chowing Down at the 49ers' Training Camp
In 2011, I was invited to the café at the San Francisco 49ers
training camp.
The café, operated by Bon Appetit Management Company, serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night snacks for free to the football players, staff and sports media. It is not open to the public. But I was invited by team management to take a tour and to enjoy lunch here. Talk about a hungry crowd; it's not uncommon for the chef to go through 30 pounds of egg whites and 200 pounds of chicken a day here, as they serve up to 250 people at a time. Click here to read what's on the team's training table. Enjoy, and go 49ers! |
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