Trader Vic's Palo Alto closing - General Tiki

J JenTiki Grand Member (1 year) Home of the best rum collection in NC Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Posts: 2336	J JenTiki Posted posted on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 4:23 PM http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/06/20/trader-vics-in-palo-alto-will-become-the-sea-by-alexanders-steakhouse/ The Palo Alto branch of Trader Vic’s is still open, but get there while you can, because Jeffrey Stout and Alexander’s Steakhouse are moving in later this year. However, chef-owner Stout won’t make the El Camino restaurant the third location of his Michelin-starred steakhouse; instead, he’s turning to seafood. The new restaurant will be named The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse. “Our hope is to be the premiere fine dining seafood restaurant in the Bay Area,” he says. “Essentially we want to do what we did with steak but different protein,” he continues. “I remember Aqua as the first seafood restaurant to go outside the mold of the old-school San Francisco, lemon and petrale sole dishes.” Stout mentions places like L.A.’s Providence and New York’s Le Bernardin in discussing his aspirations for elaborate presentations and upscale seafood dishes — something that he says has been missing from the Bay Area food scene since the demise of Aqua. It’s a big space: 150 seats in the dining room, plus the capability for another 200 in the private dining areas, which Stout says he hopes to utilize for corporate events and weddings. They’ll give the space a cosmetic makeover, but no big structural changes. At this early stage in the planning, the goal is mid-October. As for Trader Vic’s, it’s been in business since 2001. At that point in time, it was the first Trader Vic’s to open in the United States in 28 years. No word yet on an exact closure date."

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The Palo Alto branch of Trader Vic’s is still open, but get there while you can, because Jeffrey Stout and Alexander’s Steakhouse are moving in later this year.

However, chef-owner Stout won’t make the El Camino restaurant the third location of his Michelin-starred steakhouse; instead, he’s turning to seafood. The new restaurant will be named The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse.

“Our hope is to be the premiere fine dining seafood restaurant in the Bay Area,” he says.

“Essentially we want to do what we did with steak but different protein,” he continues. “I remember Aqua as the first seafood restaurant to go outside the mold of the old-school San Francisco, lemon and petrale sole dishes.”

Stout mentions places like L.A.’s Providence and New York’s Le Bernardin in discussing his aspirations for elaborate presentations and upscale seafood dishes — something that he says has been missing from the Bay Area food scene since the demise of Aqua.

It’s a big space: 150 seats in the dining room, plus the capability for another 200 in the private dining areas, which Stout says he hopes to utilize for corporate events and weddings. They’ll give the space a cosmetic makeover, but no big structural changes. At this early stage in the planning, the goal is mid-October.

As for Trader Vic’s, it’s been in business since 2001. At that point in time, it was the first Trader Vic’s to open in the United States in 28 years. No word yet on an exact closure date."

Post #641163 by JenTiki on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 4:23 PM