The hat yai fried chicken at Roost & Roast, opening in June at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto. The menu includes pad thai, pineapple fried rice and papaya salad. The fried chicken, named after the southern Thai city of Hat Yai near the Malaysian border, is marinated in coriander root, palm sugar and garlic - all mixed by hand in a mortar and pestle, never a food processor - and topped with fried onions and garlic. She helped Poon develop the menu, using her recipes for dishes like hat yai fried chicken, Thai-style popcorn chicken, and skewers with lemongrass chicken and pork belly. Roost & Roast, opening June 11, is inspired by owner Brandon Poon’s mother, who was born in Cambodia but immigrated to Thailand and thus is well-versed in both countries’ cuisines. The menu is a work in progress, but they plan to serve a mix of new dishes and ones from the San Francisco restaurant. I wanted to go to a fun place that was also really good and healthy at the same time,” Paganini said.īack of the House is hoping to open Wildseed Palo Alto in the fall. “The reason why I opened Wildseed is because I got interested in eating more healthfully myself. The goal, Paganini said, is to create an appealing, buzzy restaurant that serves superior plant-based food - an antidote to vegan food’s sometimes “boring and tasteless” reputation. Wildseed also serves cocktails that incorporate fresh juices, herbs and house-made tinctures and shrubs, as well as nonalcoholic and low-ABV drinks. The Palo Alto menu will be largely the same as in San Francisco, Paganini said. Chef Blair Warsham developed the menu in concert with a registered dietitian. The menu features dishes like a roasted beet tostada and eggplant pizza with smoked cashew mozzarella. Wildseed draws on ingredients like mushrooms, lentils, cashew cheese and plant-based Impossible and Beyond meats to create vegetarian versions of usually meaty dishes like Bolognese and burgers. The group confirmed that Wildseed will be opening at the shopping center and has taken over the large corner space where Mayfield Bakery & Cafe closed last year. Wildseed is the first vegetarian restaurant from San Francisco restaurateur Adriano Paganini’s Back of the House hospitality group, which runs numerous prominent restaurants in the Bay Area. Read on for details on each business, their menus and opening dates. The restaurants will be a boost for the shopping center, which has been a dining destination for years but struggled with high vacancy rates during the pandemic.
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