Our Story
A California
Institution
Jamis MacNiven opened Buck's in 1991 because he couldn't find a good place to eat in Woodside. A former builder who'd constructed the Hard Rock Cafe and remodeled Steve Jobs's house, he filled the dining room floor to ceiling with the weird and the wonderful: a Soviet space suit, a Shaquille O'Neal shoe, a Statue of Liberty with a Sundae, and high tech soap box derby cars.
Then something unexpected happened. Hotmail was founded here. Netscape held early meetings in the back room. Tesla was born at table 40. PayPal got funded over pancakes. A little restaurant on the road to the coast became the unofficial town hall of Silicon Valley.
Today Buck's is run by the next generation of MacNivens, but nothing important has changed. Ranchers still sit next to venture capitalists. The art is still strange. The pancakes are still good. And every table has a story.
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Before You Visit
Buck's interior is half restaurant, half living museum: a rotating gallery of folk art, model planes, vintage memorabilia, cowboy boots, and the wonderfully unexpected. Take a virtual walk-through before you arrive.
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