The Peninsula's newest dining destination – a two-story, 40,000-square-foot remark deck crammed with interior design inspiration – will debut Friday at Stanford Shopping Center.
RH Palo Alto, the Gallery at Stanford, is the corporate's fourth gallery within the Bay Area, after San Francisco, Yountville and Marin, and its first in Silicon Valley. RH operates galleries all over the world, having recently opened in Brussels, the English Cotswolds, Munich and Düsseldorf.
The gallery in a northeast corner of the middle grounds replaces the long-standing RH store on University Avenue. This traditional store closes today at the tip of business.
“We believe that great architecture adds value and value to our product and brand,” said Gary Friedman, RH's chairman and CEO, in an email. “Either we find great historic architecture and re-adapt it” – in San Francisco, the corporate renovated Bethlehem Steel's 1917 behemoth – “or we build it. RH Palo Alto is a completely new design, built from the ground up.”
The galleries mix retail, design and hospitality in a single location. Friedman said this idea creates spaces for consumers that “cannot be replicated online.”
At the Stanford Center, customers enter a spacious first-floor gallery with 16-foot ceilings, where room-sized displays of furniture collections are arranged under modern RH chandeliers, complemented by pieces Friedman collected on his world travels.
A cantilevered double staircase results in the second floor, which houses the RH Design Studio and its meeting rooms for homeowners and designers.
The third floor is home to the RH Rooftop Restaurant, which encompasses a glass conservatory that blends indoor and outdoor space. The restaurant seats 150 people around a biancone limestone fountain and offers views of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west.
The recent RH menu, created by Chef Kristian Markland, features recent most important dishes resembling a complete grilled branzino, a grilled vegetable and shrimp salad and a special chicken sandwich.
The gallery is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 8pm and Sunday from 10am to 7pm. The restaurant serves an all-day menu from 11:30am to 8pm on weekdays. Brunch opens earlier at 10am on weekends.
Details: 180 El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650-328-4004; https://rh.com/us/en/restaurants
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