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Relaxed Café

Big E Cafe

Opens Saturday at 7:00 AM

Branham, San Jose

🥟Mediterranean has squash, olives, three cheeses
⏰Opens 6am weekdays, 7am weekends

Twenty years of empanada-making wisdom fills every perfectly toasty pocket at this neighborhood cafe, especially the Traditional Beef with Kalamata olives and sweet raisins served with chimichurri.

Family-run cafe
Authentic Peruvian recipes
Generational family recipes
Handmade empanadas

They recommend it:

The Mercury News
The Mercury News
Google
(521)
4.6
€€€€

Matches these interests

  • Family-run cafe
  • Authentic Peruvian recipes
  • Generational family recipes
  • Handmade empanadas
  • Branham
  • San Jose

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