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Healthy Gourmet Beet Carpaccio Flatbread
I love beets and I love walnuts, but the healthy nuts don't seem to need much of a hard sell. 

Fiery Bottom BBQ Pork Rice Bowl recipe featured on Restaurants and Institutions Menu Ideas: One - Dish Meals
Ingredient-packed rice bowls offer customers a complete, convenient meal, deep flavor profiles and value all in one hearty, tasty package.

Calafia wins 3 awards in the best of Palo Alto Online
Best New Restaurant, Best Organic Eats, and Best Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant

Winning Best New Restaurant wasn't enough for Calafia Cafe and its Market A Go Go
 Voters also singled it out for its green eats. Google chef Charlie Ayers has scored a hit with Calafia, where the menu "is the soul of diversity," according to Weekly reviewer Sheila Himmel. Eat in-house or take out; either way you get an intriguing mix. Some recent samples: crimson quinoa salad, lamb sausage and eggs, gluten-free Japanese beef curry and gingered mashed yams. The market has a salad bar, party platters and plenty of grab-and-go items. "Organic" is a buzz word, with ambiance as earthy as the menu, but omnivores can eat as well as vegans here. Did we mention that Calafia also won for Best Vegetarian/Vegan Cuisine?

Five Famous Burgers
Calafia Lamb Burgers included in the Contra Costa Times article

Eat Yourself Smarter - Chef Charlie and Calafia featured in Volume 9 Issue 10 of The Wave Magazine

Deep Dark Sweetness
Wichita Falls Online
CHARLIE AYERS’ MOLASSES STEAK SAUCE

The Scene > San Francisco
Saturday Night Magazine
What do a techie, a soccer mom, a food connoisseur and an environmentalist have in common?

Restaurants Silicon Valley
metroactive
Fast Meets Slow: Google chef Charlie Ayers raises fast food to a new level at Palo Alto's Calafia Cafe
 

Digital Media
cnet
Audio slideshow: Former Google chef's search for brain food

Zagat Buzz

San Francisco Edition
(Go)oogle Calafia

10 Thoughts from Chef Charlie Ayers
Restaurant Hospitality January 2009

Palo Alto Farmers' Market
Join Chef Charlie for a cooking demo and sampling at the farmers' market on June 26th.

Chic Meets Geek
Chef Charlie spoke at the Chic Meets Geek event on June 3rd, 2010 in San Francisco.

The View from the Bay
  View Chef Charlie Ayers for his return appearance on the Bay Area's variety show on April 28th.  Watch the Video

Rhone Rangers Grand Tasting
Come visit Calafia Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:00 - 5:00 PM. Thirteenth Annual Rhone Rangers Grand Tasting.
The weekend culminated with the Grand Tasting, where over 2,000 people came taste over 500 wines from more than 100 Rhone Rangers wineries. They sampled gourmet foods from 25 or more specialty food purveyors, including cheese, bread, olive oil, charcuterie, fruits and other sweets and chocolates.

Style 2010
Calafia is proudly catered the breakfast and lunch for Style 2010, the magical art-for-wear show and sale at the Palo Alto Art Center, April 24, 2010.

Dining Out For Life
Thursday April 29, 2010
Benefiting The Health Trust AIDS Services

Calafia was proud to have participated in the Dining Out For Life event benefiting The Health Trust AIDS Services. We donated 25% of Café proceeds.*

Rock the Earth!
"Eat, Drink, & Be Merry" with A Power Lunch with Former Google Executive Chef Charlie Ayers!
 

Ottawa, Canada
Chef Charlie Ayers prepared a special dinner at the US Ambassador Residence November 6, 2009.

The View from the Bay
Check out the new video of Chef Charlie preparing Calafia lamb and garbanzo bean saute

Calafia featured on Malou Review

Society of St. Vincent de Paul - Guest Chef Dinner
Executive Chef Charlie Ayers hosted on June 10 2009 see details>

2009 Fundraiser for the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Calafia catered the magical art-to-wear show at the Palo Alto Art Center

Food Tuesday Slide Show
KTVU San Francisco Channel 2

Organic Grab and Go Video
KTVU San Francisco Channel 2