Trevese Restaurant in Los Gatos
 
Today was Lynne’s and my 27th wedding anniversary so we celebrated with a wonderful dinner at Trevese Restaurant in Los Gatos. We enjoyed it thoroughly and highly recommend it for a special occasion. The place was packed – so much for the recession in Silicon Valley!
Travese has been at this location, 115 North Santa Cruz Ave in Los Gatos, since 2007. Chef Miller’s menu changes daily, depending on what is available and in season. His menus embrace sustainable and organic products as much as possible, and support local farmers and growers. We had wonderful fish from the Arctic and New Zealand.
The renowned mansion Trevese occupies was originally owned by Mary Coggeshall and constructed in 1891 by J.J. Hill. It is one of few Queen Anne-style Victorians still standing in the Bay Area. In 1977 the Chart House refurbished the mansion to a restaurant and closed its doors thirty years later. As a child growing up in Los Gatos and Saratoga, I remember the building as the Place Mortuary, a detail that some choose to forget.
Our waiter was an English teacher by day on the east side of San Jose, and he commented on a book his class was reading by Francisco Jiminez entitled Breaking Through, which mentioned the Bonetti Ranch in Santa Maria. My ancestors received a Mexican land grant in 1844 for a large ranch in Santa Maria and my grandfather married the grantee’s daughter Artemecia and settled there in the late 1800′s, before moving to Santa Clara County.
