Menlo Park is a pretty, leafy Peninsula suburb that also happens to be a Silicon Valley powerhouse. It has much in common with Palo Alto, its next-door neighbor, and the two are frequently mentioned in the same breath. Perhaps Menlo Park is a touch quieter — it has about half the population of Palo Alto and lacks the college town–aspects of the Stanford campus — but any differences are minor. Meta, parent company of Facebook, has its headquarters in Menlo Park and a little company called Google was founded here in a garage. Today, the city is known as the “Capital of Venture Capital,” due to the high concentration of VC firms that line the iconic Sand Hill Road. When not coming up with the next hot tech start-up, the community loves shopping and dining at long-time local favorites like Draeger’s Market, Kepler’s Books, and the very first Round Table Pizza.