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SUMMARY KEYWORDS la paloma, santa clara, mexican food, pedro, restaurant, version, special occasions, drink, mexican, love, personal favorites, rehana, milpitas, authentic, great, islamophobe, guests, pandemic, comfort food, food SPEAKERS Christopher Garcia Christopher Garcia  Come with me. We're going to Silicon Valley Christopher Garcia  to our loyal guests since 1977 La Paloma restaurant has been a Santa Clara staple of delicious Mexican food in a warm and friendly environment. Thanks to our great team and loyal guests, we've had the opportunity to be the home of special occasions and general dining. We have made the extremely sad decision to close our doors may 1 2022. Due to the economic impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, and not being able to come to an agreement with our landlord. We thank you for your continued support all these years sincerely, La Paloma restaurant. My idea of what Mexican food is was not defined by my grandmother, who while Mexican was not exactly a great cook, but more by two restaurants both in Santa Clara aka poco sadly gone as well. La Paloma and this gave me a twisted version. Of course, one crispy taco shells, which took years for me to get into the soft taco mode, the thick layers of cheese on top of everything which I love to this day. But most importantly, this idea of mixing up rice and beans. But there's more to it. It's this idea that Mexican food can be a sit down food instead of just a grab and go food because of course I was eating Taco Bell from the age of like three, but the amazing, beautiful. La Paloma, a restaurant I still love to last time I went there probably 10 years ago. Now sadly, no less than that probably seven or eight. It's this idea of a warm, accommodating Mexican sit down place with all the sort of faux trappings of the location, you know, carved chairs for example, knickknacks, we've lost a lot of that type of Mexican food lately. We've still got Pedro's Okay, that's great. But Boyle Del Mar has gone to Acapulco, La Paloma and Luis addley looks to be a victim of COVID-19 just like so many other places. The best thing there of course were the drinks and I want to read to you actually, this is a rare occasion I read my own writing from Yelp, August 15 2008. If you toss Milpitas islamophobe endless goddesses Pedro in a blender with little ice, the frosty daiquiri that would result would be La Paloma. It's been around forever, and the food has gone up and down over the years and seems to be slightly above average. It does tend to be a little breezy, but you'll never notice because the bar does such a great job and just about every drink. I've even had an old fashioned there once and they did a really good job. Some of the food that has come and gone the boil come crema is one of my personal favorites. I don't think they made it towards the end and I I used to get it all the time. And when I stopped to make my own, it was based off of the memory of that version. I did notice that the service ranged from really good to really bad and goes back and forth like anywhere. But one of the things about La Paloma was it felt like a restaurant of the town. It felt like the Santa Clara version of Mexican food. I know it's not authentic. I know it doesn't have that sort of Christmas that freshness. But it was what Santa Clara can provide a not necessarily authentic but real and filling. And considering it lasted for 45 years. That's a pretty good run. And I I hope that my kids will get that experience this sort of comfort food version of Mexican food because they know taka Rita's because we have a taco Rehana in Boulder Creek that they love. But there's something special about this too, and I hope they get to experience it. Maybe I'll take them to Pedro's

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