Purple Onion builds on tradition and a melange of culture that is unique to this region, Northern California. Our tastes run eclectic, but everything we bring to table for you makes its own kind of sense. The same sense our parents (and theirs) practiced, when picking supper fresh from the fields. The sense of local cuisine—Santa Clara Valley cuisine, Los Gatos cuisine—with a few Greek or Italian or other special ingredients added in.

If it's local, it's going to be fresher. If it's seasonal, it's going to be tastier. And when it's all put skillfully together, it's going to be special. Guaranteed.

We remember our mothers, cooking what they picked in the summer, baking apples in the fall. Our grandmothers, rolling out fresh dough for pasta and filo, roasting fresh chicken, making real lemonade and aromatic black coffee.

It's not just food, it's life and memories. It's how we'll make you smile. And it's why you'll keep coming back, again and again, to enjoy meals and coffees here with friends.