Il Fornaio Restaurant Review

I just came back from lunch with a couple of bloggers at Il Fornaio Restaurant in Paolo Alto. This is the first time I’m in Paolo Alto, the hub of Silicon Valley. At lunch was from Glen Millar from Prosper.com, SVB, and the Agaishan Life. (and me off course).

It was an Italian restaurant with very nice deco. I decided to get a Paitto Smeralda – Mixed grill of marinated scallops, calamari, shrimp with garlic and red chili flakes, braised tomatoes, wilted wild arugula, sautéed organic spinach, cannellini beans; grilled ciabatta rubbed with garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. The seafood was wonderfully cooked – the little squids and scallops, though I felt they had too much spinach instead.

The food was delicious, very well done and frankly speaking, I’ll go back there in a heartbeat. There’s just too many stuff I want to try – like their calamari!

Piatto Smeralda

Omelette con Gamberetti e Avocado

Uova Alla Benedettina

Here is a sample of their menu.

Disclosure – Glen from Prosper.com paid for lunch! Thank You very much Glen. But being who I am, I took a sneak peak at the credit card that he was using and it turns out that it was a Wells Fargo credit card. To which I would suggest that prosper give their employees an American Express Business Gold Card or something equivalent (looks more business like).