Guess the Gourd Weight

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Fall is upon us, and you know what that means! Pumpkin season is here. Come to The Café at SCA between Monday, October 21st and Thursday, October 24th for our guess the gourd weight contest! Click below to submit your guess about how much the gourd weighs and you can win a gift basket. Winner […]

Peacock Dublin Indian Cuisine Pop In

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Join our Foodworkst partner Peacock Dublin Indian Cuisine on October 15 at The café @ Oracle Santa Clara. Peacock's menu features fresh and authentic Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisine prepared and served by our friendly staff. They have many years of experience cooking home-style Indian food and are excited to share a meal you will […]

Mardi Gras

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A celebration fit for a king (cake)! Join us in the SCA23 café for the best of Mardi Gras food traditions and festivities.

Championship Game

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Get game day ready with today's lunch chef specials.

National Pasta Day

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It's National Pasta Day! Linguine, fettuccine, spaghetti, tortellini, ziti—the list of pastas is endless!

Food For Your Well-Being: Portions Count

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Today's event aids in choosing reasonable portions of quality, nutrient-rich foods most of the time with the occasional “indulgent” item that will help you feel more satisfied with your choices. Enjoy the “indulgent” items as special treats.

T-Minus….

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Celebrate moon landing’s 50th anniversary with space-riff dishes.

Anthony Bourdain Day

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Celebrating the culinary legacy and birthday of Anthony Bourdain.

Ripe for the picking!

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Warm weather brings summery treasures and seasonal stone fruits are at the top of the list.

Valentine’s Day

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Come see why we love you, shop for special gifts, and try our special Love Potion #9 mocha!

Tailgate Nachos

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Get ready for Sunday's big game with today's Super Special at the Taqueria.

Holiday Pie Tasting

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It’s pumpkin! No, it’s pecan, or maybe it’s cheesecake?!  Let us help you choose your holiday pie with a sampling of this year's house-made favorites.

Early Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving starts today with your cafe team creating a special lunch with all the festive fixings.

Tomato Fest

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Take the Tomato Week celebration home with today's farmer's table.

Love Food, Love Turmeric

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Today in the SCA23 café spice up your lunch with a chef special featuring turmeric, learn there’s more to this spice, and take home a recipe.

Well-Being Wednesday: Whole Foods

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With our Whole Foods wellness theme, learn what nutrients build on one another to provide even greater benefits to your health.

Oracle Summer Games

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Let the games begin with this year's Summer Games and Barbecue!

Pajama Cooking Party

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Bon Appétit would like to invite your elementary school-aged children to wear their pajamas for this two hour summertime event featuring activities in healthy breakfast eating and cooking.

FREE

Well-Being Wednesday: Hydration

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Good hydration supports brain focus, body temperature regulation, and absorption of essential nutrients —important reasons to stay hydrated. 

Fire-Up the Grill!

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Kick-off summer by enjoying weekly barbecue lunch specials and taste the season’s first sizzle and sear in the June sunshine.

Well-Being Wednesday; Added Sugar

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Sugar sneaks its way into many foods and beverages that may surprise you! Join us for this lunch time event and learn how you can become sugar savvy!

Fire-Up the Grill!

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Kick-off summer by enjoying weekly barbecue lunch specials and taste the season’s first sizzle and sear in the June sunshine.

Well-Being Wednesday: Antioxidants

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Research suggests that the best way to ensure you’re getting a variety of phytonutrients is to “eat a rainbow” of deeply colored plant-based foods. The color of a fruit or vegetable is usually an indication of the type of phytonutrient that the plant contains.

LOCALS: DUCKS & DRAGONS BAKERY

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As part of our LOCALS program, we’ll be bringing the local community from the outside in for a lunch time tasting and introduction to our latest catering partner.

Guest Author; Liza Gershman

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Today join us in the cafe as we introduce guest author Liza Gershman who will be sharing the authentic flavor and heart of Cuban cuisine, with her latest cookbook, Cuban Flavor.

LOCALS: Sante Nuts

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As part of our LOCALS program, we’ll be bringing the local community from the outside in for a lunch time tasting.

Pi Day

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Celebrate your love of math with food (or vice versa) with today's PI Day celebration.

A Healthy You

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Today's cafe activity gives you the power to make informed decisions about your food choices.

Valentine’s Day Flowers

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Along with house-made sweet treats, today we'll also have flowers available in the cafe.

Well-Being Wednesday; Healthy Fat

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Today we will have a lunchtime activity table about the different types of fats and demonstrate creative ways to incorporate healthy fats into your diet.

National Grapefruit Month

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We’ll be including it in your breakfast bar but also highlighting the bold taste and healthy goodness by adding it in menus throughout the month.

Cooking Demo

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Pumpkin is a seasonal staple all winter long. Here it is paired with miso soup for a perfect winter lunch or dinner.

Well-Being Wednesday: Energy Balance

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This month's Food for Your Well-Being theme demonstrates how to incorporate food swaps that reduce calories and boost flavor and satiety.

Citrus Celebration

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This month we celebrate the color and zing of winter citrus.

Holiday Pie Tasting

It’s pumpkin! No, it’s pecan, or maybe it’s cheesecake! Let us help you choose your holiday pie with a sampling of this year's house-made favorites.

Something is brewing in cafe!

Pirates, Princess, and super Heroes too….It’s a costume party and we’re inviting you!

An Apple A Day!

Join us in rediscovering the diversity of this iconic fruit by sharing apple-inspired dishes

Cooking is an Art & a Science: Deglaze

Today the cafe team shares what it means to deglaze a pan, how you deglaze and why you use this important technique in your kitchen the correct way.

Love Food, Love Poke

If you haven't yet heard of poké (pronounced POH-keh), that's bound to change with today's chef special.

Well-Being Wednesday: Whole Foods

With our Whole Foods wellness theme, learn what nutrients build on one another to provide even greater benefits to your health.

Strawberry Week

Today we begin celebrating all things strawberry while supporting our local farmers and encouraging the healthy indulgence.

Star Wars Day – May the fourth be you!

Created by the beloved Star Wars story and the fandom that binds our galaxy together, today, May 4th, is the grassroots tradition of “May the Fourth Be With You”. Our cafes will party like an Ewok with fun treats and even funnier puns.

POP UP: JUICERO

Today it seems everyone is juicing… from celebrities to your grandma. Join us in the cafe for a FREE tasting and see if you're ready to join the juice craze.

Well-Being Wednesday

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Celebrating National Nutrition Month, this activity serves as a reminder that each one of us holds the tool to make healthier food choices.

Spread the love!

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Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to spoil that special someone!

Well-Being Wednesday: Healthy Fats

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Today, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to prepare healthy, delicious DIY Cold-Infusion Oils incorporating healthy fats.

National Spaghetti Day

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One of the world’s favorite dishes, spaghetti is more than deserving of its own little holiday. Join us today for #nationalspaghettiday

Go ahead, have dessert first.

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Joining us at the Mistletoe Market Holiday Fair, Chef/Author Kathryn Gordon, will be selling and personalizing her latest cookbook at a special Oracle discount for the perfect holiday gift!

Early Thanksgiving Celebration

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Today, we’ll be featuring an early celebration meal with Turkey, a choice of 4 sides, and salad.

Holiday Pie Tasting

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It’s pumpkin, it’s pecan, it’s cheesecake! Let us help you choose your holiday pie with a sampling of this year's house-made favorites.

FREE

Star Chef: Kian Lam Kho

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Please join us today for a book signing and special menu featuring recipes from Kian's latest cookbook, Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees: Essential Techniques of Authentic Chinese Cooking.

Food For Your Well-Being: Vary Your Protein Routine

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Today we discuss personal health and the environmental benefits of consuming plant-based proteins. We’ll also provide strategies for replacing animal proteins with those from plants.

NATIONAL SEAFOOD MONTH

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Excited to celebrate wild salmon for #SeafoodMonth. See our specials & learn why we avoid farmed salmon

National Guacamole Day

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It’s National Guacamole Day. And it’s not important how you celebrate, as long as you get some delicious variation of mashed up avocado by 11:59pm tonight.

Well-Being Wednesday: Portions

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Portions count. Today in the cafe, learn to recognize the right amount for you with portion distortion well-being activity.

National Acorn Squash Day

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Honoring acorn squash on September 7 signals the impending arrival of nothing but the best season of the year.

NUTRIENTS FROM NATURE – EAT A RAINBOW

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Fruits and vegetables with deep colors are certainly beautiful, but those eye-catching colors are actually a signal that they contain important substances that can help your body repair itself. Today, […]

Cooking Demo

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National Milk Chocolate Day, meaning you have the perfect excuse to indulge that chocolate hankering.

Hey, Macaroni!

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Each year on July 7th pasta lovers across the nation celebrate National Macaroni Day. Made with durum wheat, macaroni is a large variety of dry pasta which typically do not […]

Cooking Demo

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If you’re looking for a refreshing summer entrée that doesn’t require turning on the oven and heating up the kitchen, look no further.  Ceviche can be an extremely simple – […]

Food For Your Well-Being

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Most Americans consume too much sodium, averaging 3400mg daily, and more than 75% of the sodium we eat comes from processed and restaurant foods. The Bon Appetit from scratch style […]

Fire-up the Grill

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Nothing says, “Summer is here!” quite like all the backyard or patio barbecue;  Join Chef Randy and your cafe team  as they Fire-up the Grill and celebrate everything good about marinade, spice-rubbed and basted […]

National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day

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Today is National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day. Wow, that’s definitely a mouthful—of deliciousness, that is! This sweet and tangy treat was first made popular during the early 1800's, about 30 […]

Great Asparagus Challenge

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Eating a wide variety of vegetables is one of the best ways to ensure a healthful diet. However, many people are unsure of how to prepare wholesome vegetables at home […]

Chef’s Cooking Demo

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Guacamole is a great complement to any meal and features predominantly the avocado.  The creamy, rich taste of avocados comes from their high fat content, and that's something to celebrate.  The […]

Cafe Fiesta

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Victory belonged to the Mexican army in the Battle of Puebla on May 5th, 1862.  Ever since then, Cinco de Mayo (The Fifth of May) has been an annual celebration for many […]

Awesome it will be!

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Created by the beloved Star Wars story and the fandom that binds our galaxy together, today, May 4th, is the grassroots tradition of “May the Fourth Be With You”.    Chefs […]

National Prime Rib Day

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Join Chef Randy and the cafe team in celebrating the "King of Meats" with today's lunch special.  

Earth Day in the Cafe

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There are many things we all do year-round to help reduce the environmental and social impact of the food system. For the Earth Day 2016 celebration (and beyond), we want […]

Hummus Tasting

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Foods that are good for the earth are often the same ones that are the most nutritious. Join us in the café for a lunch time hummus tasting and learn […]

Thursday Happy Hour

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Combining popcorn and caramel began back in the 1890′s with the strong molasses flavor of Cracker Jack, an early version of which was introduced at the Chicago World’s Fair in […]

Thursday Happy Hour

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Grab your co-workers and join us for Thursday Happy Hour – great prices, great fun and great festive atmosphere!

St. Patrick’s Day

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No one wants to get pinched while serving you corned beef and cabbage today. Happy #StPatricksDay! All cafes will be having a chef specials but check out Oracle Plaza’s festive […]

Year of the Monkey

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In celebration of Lunar New Year, we’ve prepared a variety of dishes representing the four primary culinary regions of China. While modern times have blurred regional lines, the traditions of […]

Pre-Order your Holiday Pies

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Our in-house bakery is preparing rustic pies perfect for your Thanksgiving! Place your order today to secure the best dessert at your holiday table. Pre-order by November 20th for pick-up […]