Peet's Café Solano and Café Domingo LOCAL BREWS Peet’s Coffee & Tea has introduced two very Berkeley-centric blends: Café Solano and Café Domingo, in honor of two of their Berkeley stores on Domingo Avenue and Solano Avenue. Café Domingo is described as a smooth, balanced and medium-bodied Latin American blend “with hints of toffee sweetness and a […]
Amanda’s Feel Good Fresh Food
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Farm-to-fork tours spotlight local green businesses
Green food tours start at the source: Local farms. Photos: Courtesy of Bay Area Green Tours Three years ago, Marissa LaMagna started Bay Area Green Tours, a nonprofit, shoestring operation now headquartered in the David Brower Center (and largely staffed by eager, eco-conscious, unpaid interns) because she wanted to showcase the best sustainable farms and […]
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How did Berkeley do on those 2010 resolutions?
People's Park: there has been no progress this year on the future of this controversial space. Photo: djwudi/Flickr creative commons. A year ago, we suggested 10 resolutions for 2010 for Berkeley (we’ll have our 2011 resolutions tomorrow). How did our city do? We went back to look at those 10 resolutions and scored them 0 […]
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Amanda’s to close at end of month
Amanda West opened Amanda's Fresh two years ago to serve healthy fast food. Amanda’s Feel Good Fresh Food, one of the symbols of new life and dynamism in Downtown Berkeley, is to close on December 31. Amanda’s opened two-and-a-half years ago at 2122 Shattuck and won praise for bringing a healthy approach to fast food. […]
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Food takes to the streets, literally, on PARKing Day
At the Cheese Board Collective the outside eating possibilities were expanded. Today, some choice parking spots around Berkeley were commandeered and given over to less auto-oriented pursuits: sitting, eating, lounging and drinking being the main ones. At the Cheese Board Pizza Collective in the Gourmet Ghetto two parking spaces sported several chairs, an umbrella and […]
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Berkeley restaurateur is woman entrepreneur of 2010
Amanda West opened her downtown restaurant two years ago. Her goal: healthy fast food. Amanda West arrived in Berkeley just two years ago, but already she has become firmly embedded in the fabric of the city. And her achievements and positive impact have just been recognized with the designation “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in […]
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Berkeley Bites: Daphne Miller
Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry asks a well-known, up-and-coming, or under-the-radar food aficionado about their favorite tastes in town, preferred food purveyors and other local culinary gems worth sharing. Daphne Miller, 44, is a family physician in private practice in San Francisco and the author of the sleeper success The Jungle […]
