The back story behind the artisan food business Phoenix Pastificio, a Berkeley Farmers’ Market regular.
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7 Berkeley restaurants get value nod from Michelin
Japanese dining spot Ippuku has been named a Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant for the first time this year. Photo: Ippuku Seven Berkeley dining spots have been named Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants. The ‘Bib’ is bestowed to restaurants where the Michelin judges deem one can eat well for $40 or less (plus tax and tip), and Michelin […]
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Homegrown truths: Sunny Side Café chef Aaron French
Eco-chef Aaron French, author of The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook, dishes up breakfast standards with a local flavor at two cafes.
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The culinary couple behind Berkeley’s Corso and Rivoli
Roscoe Skipper, Wendy Brucker and Clive the dog, of Rivoli and Corso. Photo: Clay McLachlan This is a story about a little neighborhood restaurant opened in 1994 — a shared vision between two partners in work and life, who built an acclaimed destination dining space serving up fresh, homey food with complex flavors and nods […]
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Berkeley’s Kitchen on Fire booms during economic bust
Kitchen on Fire during a film shoot. Photos: KoF The two self-professed clowns behind Kitchen on Fire, who like to ham it up with kitchen utensils for the camera, are quite serious about their mission: they want to teach people to cook real food for themselves. Chefs MikeC and Olivier Said launched the Gourmet Ghetto […]
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Ippuku in Top 100, 5 Berkeley restaurants make cut
Ippuku: making its debut in the Chronicle's Top 100 this year. Photo: Laura Morton/SF Chronicle Alice Waters would rather you didn’t know about it because she loves eating there so much, Alice Medrich is also a fan, and its most well-known dish consists of raw chicken. And now Ippuku in Berkeley joins the hallowed ranks of […]
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John Scharffenberger: From chocolate and wine to tofu
John Scharffenberger. Photo: Anne Hamersky. Long known for the success of his premium wine and chocolate companies, John Scharffenberger is making a name for himself these days as a tofu hawker. In June, Scharffenberger, 59, who divides his time between a home in North Berkeley and a place in the country, signed on as the […]
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Giving thanks with Berkeley’s Café Gratitude
Alice Liu, at the bar of Berkeley's Café Gratitude Alice Liu is the general manager of the Berkeley branch of Café Gratitude, a position she’s held for about a year. Originally from Taiwan, Liu has owned her own café, Cones N Cakes, in the Excelsior District in San Francisco, and ran Baci, an upscale Italian […]
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5 Berkeley restaurants make Top 100
Only five of the Chronicle’s Top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area are in Berkeley, the birthplace of the locavore movement and the home of the doyenne of slow food in the United States, Alice Waters. Of the five chosen ones — revealed in the paper’s annual league table yesterday, one is relatively new. The […]
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Berkeley Bites: Mollie Katzen
Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry will ask 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 with visitors and residents. Bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen kick-starts this new column. Mollie Katzen is perhaps best known for her […]
