Cafe Borrone
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349
Phone: (650) 327-0830
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 7am-11pm Fri 7am-12pm Sat 8am-12pm Sun 8am-5pm
Editorial Review for Cafe Borrone – by Laura Reiley
The Food
The chalkboard menu is hard to read, so go for the fresh muffins, scones, and divine coffee drinks in the morning; at lunch bite into the chicken-salad sandwich, and after dark branch out and try a glass of red wine and a little pate.
The Scene
Cafe Borrone is an institution in Menlo Park. The plaza in between the two spots is dotted with cafe tables overflowing with beautiful people just cracking the spine of a new purchase. Borrone is a casual, order-at-the-counter kind of place that still turns out sophisticated sandwiches, salads, and nibbles.
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Insider Tips
Don't Rush ItBe sure and make some time to browse next door at Kepler's Books.
JampackedOwners Rose and Roy Borrone and their kids took over Kepler's annex a couple years back to add more room, but it still seems packed to overflowing, especially on nights when there's live Dixieland jazz.
Also TryAnother coffeehouse in Silicon Valley on par with Cafe Borrone.
User Reviews for Cafe Borrone
07/22/2007 Posted by gbheron
We have always liked Cafe Borrone. But since they have no e-mail address on their website (consider this a demotion in stars, too!) I am posting publicly how disappointed we were with the affogatos last night. Affogatos should be a fun, festive drink. In the style to which we're accostomed--from It's Italia in Half Moon Bay--this lively dessert dish should be served as follows: big scoop of well-frozen, high-quality vanilla ice cream in a large martini-shaped glass with whipped cream and shaved dark chocolate. A little maple syrup-type pitcher with 3 oz of espresso is served on the side. The guest pours the espresso over the ice cream in several installations and eats w/ a spoon. The CB version was in a coffee mug with about a milliliter of coffee and no shaved chocolate (despite asking if I could have a chunk of chcoclate to shave w/ their nutmeg grinder--felt like the tuna sandwich scene in Five Easy Pieces). I was horrified to see the counter guy scoop half-melted Dreyer's into my cup when the menu board had promised Haagen Dasz! He said they ran out of HD. Hmmm. Do I believe that? So we had a drab, minimally-coffee'd, mushy, melted mess in a mundane mug. SO disappointing. Please learn how to make a proper affogato!!
Pros: good food, good wine, great desserts, outdoor seating, next to book store, easy to park
Cons: bad affogatos
04/15/2007 Posted by sthor75
Cafe Borrones is a great coffee shop and restaurant. It has a great seating arrangement inside and out. I would highly recommend.
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