A new restaurant highlighting Edomae-style sushi opened in Menlo Park on Saturday, June 7. Ren is the latest from restaurateur Sunny Noah, who’s opened Tancho Japanese Restaurant in Castro Valley, Nagai Edomae Sushi in Redwood City, and Iki Omakase in Palo Alto over the last few years. Leading the restaurant is chef Wen Zhao, who previously worked at the Michelin-listed Omakase in San Francisco. Ren offers an 18- to 20-course prix fixe omakase menu in an 8-seat sushi bar setting, with fish from Tokyo’s Toyosu Market, per a press release.
San Jose will get Chick-fil-A whether residents want it or not
A new Chick-fil-A is coming to San Jose despite pushback from locals, the Mercury News reports. A 1.1-acre lot at the corner of Race and West San Carlos streets is the site of the new restaurant; various plans have been proposed for that spot, including a mixed-use development, but planning officials ultimately approved a permit allowing the fast food chain to build a 5,139-square-foot outpost. This, despite 3,200 residents signing a petition against opening the new eatery and most public comments opposing the development, per the Merc.
Blue Diamond Growers to shut down Sacramento almond plant
After 115 years in Sacramento, Blue Diamond Growers will wind down operations at its midtown plant and move manufacturing to Turlock and Salida over two years, the Sacramento Bee reports. In a statement, Blue Diamond’s president and CEO said that running the processing plant has become “too costly and inefficient.” About 600 workers will be affected, and the Bee reports that 10 percent of plant employees will be let go.
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