Saratoga restaurant owners open Dar in Los Gatos’s Soda Works Plaza

Brothers Milad and Esam Shaqir, who own Tamra Mediterranean Grill in Saratoga, recently opened a new restaurant in the former Eleven College Avenue space in downtown Los Gatos. “We have so much love and respect for this place,” says r Milad Shaqir. “It was our go-to place for all kinds of occasions.” A hot restaurant spot in Los Gatos’s Soda Works Plaza has a new name, new owners and a new menu. Dar has replaced Eleven College Avenue at the eponymous address.

Shaqir co-owns Dar with his brother, Chef Esam Shaqir. The siblings hail from Nazareth, where they grew up learning their family recipes. Lunch will feature a tangy beet salad with mandarins, haloumi salad with fried haloumi and citrus olive oil dressing, and a Mediterranean harvest salad with roasted eggplant, arugula, pomegranate seeds, cherry tomatoes, garlic labneh dressing and goat cheese.

Also on the Dar dinner menu are two pastillas, duck confit and savory garden vegetable, both encased in a crispy pastry shell. Other dinner items include saffron risotto primavera, a fileted Moroccan sea bream with basil chermoula stuffing, and a whole European Branzino served with basil lemon-garlic sauce.

Shaqir, whose family came to America in 1994 and lived on the East Coast for two years before moving to Los Gatos, went to West Valley College and then transferred to Chico State. He worked as a bartender at California Café from 2006 to 2008, and says he was meant for a career in hospitality, as was his brother Esam, who also attended West Valley College. He relishes the challenges of working in the fast-paced and demanding environment.

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