My experience in Avenida was good, great food. Team members are very friendly and knowledgeable…read moreabout their food. The service was also good and I liked their ambiance.

Great support even in the middle of COVID. Paula from Avenidas provided critical guidance and…read moreresources when my mom was hospitalized and needed special care. First, great advice on how to manage the hospital care, who to talk to and how to be a great patient advocate. Later on when (unfortunately) hospice care was needed, critical guidance to a care facility that made my mother's last days as good and as peaceful as possible. I can't thank them enough.

Hillview Community Center, and Hillview Park (both listed at the same address 97 Hillview Avenue)…read moreoffers many recreational and community programs for Los Altans, mainly kids and youth. These include music and dancing courses, art classes, fitness, and cooking. The Los Altos senior program is also hosted here. I walk these grounds almost every day. If your thing is walking, it's close to downtown, you just have to cross the San Antonio Rd. Best way is to cross at the intersection where Enchanté Boutique Hotel now stands. Or you can park by the library, and walk around to see it all. I have reviews for many of the individual listings described below. This complex is an 8.3 acre site, which consists of the following facilities surrounding the Los Altos library: - The administrative offices of the Recreation & Community Services Department - Little League baseball diamond - The "Whistlestop" children's playground near it - The parcourse exercise equipment - A soccer field that is, essentially, the Hillview Park (please see a separate review) - Los Altos History Museum - Gilbert Smith History House - Bus Barn Theater, or Los Altos Stage Company There are multiple facilities that are available for rentals, like celebrations, social gatherings, and kids birthdays: two bocce ball courts, a multi-purpose room with kitchen, and several classrooms and meeting rooms. These are mostly older facilities, and at the same time, they exude a certain old country charm and are full of history.

Currently closed for renovations…read more I've been attending a keep fit class here for a few weeks and would say that the building is tired, old and in need of some love. It's like they read my mind, because it's currently closed so that they can renovate the place!! I'm excited to see how these will improve the site and its facilities for the local community, and hope to update my review to a more positive one once the work is complete

They work so hard to take care of the elder ones in our family. We are so fortunate to have people…read morethat do this in our society. I did not feel good putting my father in a "home", but the staff and everyone there is so nice my dad whom had dementia towards the end of his life at 92 really did enjoy his time with them at villa siena!!! I highly recommend this senior care center. My Aunt Marie is at Siena now as well, and she misses her apartment that she loved, but she kept falling there and broke her hip. Then she fell again so we who weren't near her town needed to place her. She has good insurance so she was able to get in. She misses her apartment of course but she is safer now and loves reading scripture as well as many books they have in multiple libraries on site at Siena! This place just is one of the better places.

If you need an assisted living facility for your loved one, I can think of no better place than…read moreVilla Siena. My mom has been a resident here for 8-years and she loves it. The staff is OUTSTANDING. they truly CARE for all the residents. During the Covid outbreak they did an excellent job keeping the residents safe and healthy. Highly, highly recommend.

Looks like a nice community center. We were just passing through on the way to the museum next door…read moreand the lady at the info desk was helpful. I saw a number of residents sitting at the various desks and couches in the lobby areas on both sides of the building, most were on their devices or laptops working or relaxing. So there's free Wi-Fi and people can just hang out there. It's a pretty new and nice looking building with clean bathrooms.

This is a wonderful park and community center with lots of amenities, activities, and special…read moreevents. A great place to hangout for a couple of hours, mingle with neighbors, or lay on a blanket, look up at the sky, and lose yourself in some nice daydreams.

Not good food. We experimented the Harvest food Program c/o the Little House and found that they…read moregive the long time regulars the best and freshest produce in bags with their names. They also allow the the regulars to pick up a bag for others who have not made it up in the line yet. Clients are supposed to verify pick up for the week. It appears they give more of the rotting or mutated items to the new clients.

This grocery pickup service is wonderful and very appreciated. Every Wednesday they provide fresh…read moregroceries, fruits, vegetables, and often bread, eggs, or other special treats like desserts. The volunteers are always so friendly and kind. Thank you for all you do for the community.

Happened to stop by after someone told me they remodeled and great community center for kids and…read moreseniors. Yes it is a beautiful place as I walked around it on a Sunday afternoon. Mixed used complex, with playground , picnic, senior center activities, kids activities, and clean and modern facilities which I wish my city would have. So pretty here except for the geese poo. lol Hey it's true! Replace the geese with birds with smaller poo.

This review is for my recent experience at the pottery studio…read more I was ostracized when I confronted a hypocritical and nosy Karen over her instigating criticism on my clean-up. I calmly told her that "If you criticize my clean up, you have to clean it for me." My polite way to ask her to mind her own business. She went berserk and told me off to the studio guy E, accusing me of being rude while she was the one who crossed my boundary. Being a poor mediator, the guy sided with her without investigating. That was because he spied on my clean up in the past too, which was uncool! It made me uneased. I felt picked on. His behavior of one-sidedly consoling the bully, instead of remaining neutral was off putting. There's a constitutional right of "freedom of movement " that no one shall obstruct your free choice. I was glad I stood up for myself. Clay, no matter how careful you are with, will be inevitably left a few traces in the sink, and it is not a big deal. Everyone does it and everyone has his/her way of cleaning. No need to nitpick and be pathetic. To be bullied and snitched by someone who thinks she has the right to tell others what to do is disheartening. Pottery making shall be a peaceful time to create without being disturbed. To instruct people what to do as if acting as a social warrior puts a damper on freedom and creativity. They should put a sign next to the sink, that reads, "Please mind your own business when cleaning, as people like to be left alone." The entire community center is funded by tax payers' dollars, government-operated meaning it's run differently than privately-owned ones, and is more authoritarian in my opinion. As a paying customer, I'd like to access to my creative outlet without being disturbed yet my experience was tarnished by busybody commie control freak and a biased worker. I don't meddle with other's business and others should not meddle with mine. I also found some of their instructors controlling. They need to respect personal autonomy. Clean up is a very personal thing. If everyone does exactly the same thing, they can move to North Korea. It was a dissapointing experience. Move on to other options for my creative pursuit.

It is entirely the case that the elegant external manifestation of the David & Lucile Packard…read moreFoundation mirrors the internal core of its mission to improve the world through the enlivening power of spontaneous philanthropy. There is nothing pretentious about the physical appearance of the well-endowed foundation's headquarters in downtown Los Altos. It is the largest net zero building in the entire state of California. This is sustainable citizenship done 100% right. The building materials reflect the core principles of green product design: wood, stone, metal, & glass. The landscaping includes abundant native plants and drought tolerant features. Branding is nonexistent. Next door, there is a gas station and clothing diversion bin. A few steps away is a locally owned hardware store and a grocery store. While it is private land, there is a single public bench where visitors can sit and admire the near perfect asymmetric architecture that reveals as much as it hides in publicly visible seclusion. Truly, I would love to come to work everyday at a structure this well designed, maintained, and organized.