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    Purple Onion Cafe

    3.4 (330 reviews)
    Closed 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

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    PURPLE ONION CAFE ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating
    Good for kids

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    Pleasant patio
    Jeff T.

    Pleasant cafe with pleasant sandwiches made from good quality pleasant ingredients. The whole package is, you guessed it, pleasant, and maybe that's enough. Nothing really stood out but, be warned, a small soup and sandwich will cost you almost $25. No pricing is visible on the overhead menu board. I ate at the Winchester cafe (near The Garret) and discovered that The Purple Onion has a Los Gatos downtown location as well. I suspect we're getting that LG surcharge at the Winchester strip mall location. I debated between a 3 or 4 star review but landed on three due to no real desire to rush back plus the steep prices for simply serviceable food. To me this adds to three stars. Your opinion may vary, I've talked to locals who love this place.

    Thai turkey sandwich with cucumbers and Brie with a double side salad. I took my husband's salad as well.
    Suzanne W.

    The Thai Turkey sandwich was cold. Cold Brie is tasteless. I had to point out that the little bit of sriracha mayo was being used to glue a slicer of Brie to the bread. They forgot the basil. They added it after I pointed it out, but you could do better and cheaper at a Subway. The side salad is sad and bagged with a meh dressing. For $20 a sandwich, you can do better than here.

    Ham Breakfast Croissant
    Dianna O.

    First time here, nice find. Cute place, good food and very friendly service. Had the ham breakfast croissant warm and delicious.

    Lunch combo with soup, salad, GF baguette and blood orange lemonade!!

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    Really good croissants and breakfast sandwiches tomato bisque soup Le made drink blood orange flavor

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    I love it! So tasty. I like sandwiches! Very nice service too. And soup very good. I will be coming back

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    Ask the Community - Purple Onion Cafe

    Did they remove the ham and egg croissant sandwich from their breakfast menu? It's no longer available on DoorDash.

    Neither location is answering their phone and the email on the website is invalid. Are they still in business? Does anyone know how to reach them?

    Definitely still in business on Feb 8, 2025! I enjoyed a meatloaf sandwich and tomato basil soup this afternoon

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    Los Gatos Cafe

    Los Gatos Cafe

    4.3
    (2.6k reviews)
    2.6 mi
    $$

    Hey there Party People…read more I had heard of this place from friends so I decided to try it. I confused this place with another restaurant when I did my first review. So I want to set the record straight because Los Gatos Cafe was a really good experience. It's a small place but there are outside tables as well. You can order lunch at any time as well as breakfast. We started with Banana Chocolate Chip pancakes. Holy smokes they were the bomb. They had a ton of fresh bananas inside as well as a nice amount of chocolate chips on top. I had the Hot Turkey and Pear sandwich. I know the combo sounds weird but it was super tasty. The pear added crunch and sweetness to the sandwich. There was also a good dose of grilled onions to go with the owie gooey cheese....yum. Hubby had the Granite Flank Steak Sandwich . It was smothered in Gorgonzola cheese with a good portion of Flank Steak. The steak was tender and well seasoned. It was the perfect flavor bite. So going to add this place to the frequent flier list. Be kind to one another

    Not very good. Thickest Swedish pancakes I've ever had. Can compare with fast food or ihop…read more(actually I like ihop more). Service was very prompt and fast. When the lady shoved the pancakes on our table the lake of molten fat the Swedish pancakes were swimming in poured directly on to my pants through the gaps in the metal table (the tables do not have tablecloths, they are totally bare). They even brought the check soon after bringing us our food and told us we could pay whenever we were ready. UPDATE: 5 hours after eating here, still feeling over full and sick like I ate something with a lot of the wrong kind of fat. Won't be coming back.

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    Saratoga Meat and Fish

    Saratoga Meat and Fish

    4.7
    (115 reviews)
    3.8 mi
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    I specifically went to the market for the Friday late afternoon/evening paella. The employees were…read morevery friendly and did a great job of helping me out. The paella itself tasted delicious with lots of mussels, clams, shrimp and some chunks of pork. As of 1/26, it's 35 dollars a serving (serving size is a quart)

    I was there last time for their freshly cooked paella and it was impeccable. Recently we came back…read moretwice, once on Sunday as I forgot that the paella was a Friday thing, so the staff told me that they usually have paella and clam chowder freshly cooked on Friday. They happened to have a small tub of Friday clam chowder left for sale, for a whopping $16! That price dropped my rating to a 4 star. Service is still 5, but man, the value proposition isn't as high as before. The clam chowder tasted good, creamy and all, but $16 for that is really hard to swallow. The store itself is clean and sells a variety of meat products and imported goods such as from Italy. We came again on Friday evening, at 5pm exact and saw the paella pan laid outside with some amount of paella piled up. The pan felt cold and we were confused if they haven't started cooking or those were the left over. So we went inside to ask and they said the paella was available starting at 5pm, so what's on the pan was cooked. We bought 1 portion, which feeds 2-3 and it came in two 16 oz tubs. For $35, it fed my husband and myself just right. The smoky flavor was on the rice with meat and lots of clams and mussels (but not those fatty mussels that you saw in the Belgium style dish). $35 for dinner of two is not as bad value as the $16 bowl of chowder. So overall, 3.5-4 stars for food and value, 5 stars for service and friendliness.

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