Restaurant Review: Facebook’s Full Circle Cafe
Dining at Facebook is a lot like using the site—arrive with a vague purpose in mind, get overstimulated, leave tired and sad.
The inner workings of Facebook are largely secretive, hidden behind empty press releases, airtight nondisclosure agreements and aggressively loyal employees. So when a friend who works there invited me to the campus for a gratis lunch, I got in a car and blazed across the salt ponds to Menlo Park like an extra from Mad Max racing through a fire tornado to Valhalla. At least, in spirit. There was traffic.
Last year, the company expanded its Menlo Park, California, headquarters, opening a new building across Highway 84 from its former main campus. Building 20—aka MPK 20, for “Menlo Park Campus”—is a massive structure designed by Frank Gehry, with almost none of his amorphous trademarks. “From the start, Mark [Zuckerberg] wanted a space that
