A new restaurant highlighting its owners’ Korean and Taiwanese culinary cultures is set to open in downtown Menlo Park in the coming months, likely in late May or early June.
A new restaurant highlighting its owners’ Korean and Taiwanese culinary cultures is set to open in downtown Menlo Park in the coming months, likely in late May or early June.
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A new restaurant highlighting its owners’ Korean and Taiwanese culinary cultures is set to open in downtown Menlo Park this spring in late May or early June.
Behind the restaurant are chef-owners and husband-and-wife team Michael and Meichih Kim, who were previously the chefs at the Michelin-starred Maum in Palo Alto, a high-end Korean restaurant, which closed in 2020 during the pandemic. They later opened Bao Bei, a Korean and Taiwanese street food concept at Los Altos’ State Street Market, now closed.
“We wanted to offer something special to the community that we would want to eat at ourselves,” Meichih Kim says.
Menu details for the new restaurant are still forthcoming, but one dish they’re planning to offer is a lasagna-style riff on lu rou fan, a Taiwanese pork rice bowl — inspired by their time working in Italian restaurants.
The restaurant concept fuses the Redwood City-based couple’s different identities under one roof. Michael is Korean, and Meichih is Taiwanese, and the two are eager to share dishes from both their cultures. That sense of mutual appreciation and generosity is even embedded into the restaurant’s name: Yeobo is a term of endearment between spouses. It’s also a way of saying “come look.”
“We really want it to be part of the neighborhood,” Michael Kim says.
Details: Yeobo, Darling is expected to open at 827 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, in late May or early June.