Could it be the beginning of more Bay Area empire building for chef and restaurateur Stephanie Izard?
News arrived Tuesday that longtime Food Network fixture and 2008 Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard will be expanding her Girl & the Goat empire to the Bay Area next year for the first time. As the Chronicle reports, Izard has signed on to open Valley Goat in Silicon Valley, at the new Treehouse Hotel in Sunnyvale.
The restaurant will be similar in spirit to Girl & the Goat, which takes its inspirations from across the globe and now has locations in both Chicago and Los Angeles. Izard tells the Chronicle that the new menu will feature charcoal-grilled meats, fish, and vegetables in a new Josper oven, and some of Izard’s signature goat preparations seem likely to make an appearance as well. (The Los Angeles menu features, for instance, goat liver mousse, goat curry, confit goat belly, and a rhubarb-braised goat shank, in addition to pork, beef, and chicken dishes.)…