“We’re in Palo Alto right now . . . California . . . Home of the World Championship Golden State Warriors” is what Mark Wahlberg said when he was at Wahlburgers, Palo Alto in July 2018.

While on a break from her class at Stanford University in May 2018, Tyra Banks ordered an omelette at the Palo Alto Creamery Fountain & Grill and said, “Diners are a girl’s best friend (when she’s teaching and needs a meal break).”

Bryan Greenberg came to Creamistry, Palo Alto in July 2017 and asked, “New ice cream who dis?”

Cheryl Burke ate at Evvia Estiatorio with her light-up-glasses-wearing father in February 2017 and said, “When you wind up in a dark restaurant but come prepared to read the menu at any cost . . . My Dad cracks me up!”

In November 2015, James Franco said there’s “Nothing better than teaching a high school film class with your mom. In Palo Alto! And the Mayfield Bakery and Cafe!”

James Franco graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996 and comes back often — in October 2014 he painted a “Paly mural” with his mom and in 2015, he taught a film class.