The Brazil Café, a food stand towards the top of University Avenue, will open a new restaurant a few blocks down the street in the space currently occupied by Brasa which is closing at the end of July. Photo: Camille Baptista OUT: BRASA / IN: BRAZIL CAFÉ Brasa, the Peruvian restaurant at 1960 University Ave., next to Slow, […]
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Broc Cellars: Urban winery with a singular vision
Chris Brockway, the founder of Broc Cellars in Berkeley, is man with a point of view when it comes to making wine, a trait he admires in other winemakers.
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Drinking around Berkeley: A Nosh map
Editor’s note, December 2019: Google took down the tool Berkeleyside used to make this map. It is therefore no longer visible.
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Sierra Nevada to open beer tasting room on Fourth Street
The Sierra Nevada brewery in Chico. Photo: Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, the craft brewing company known for its pale ale, is planning to open a tasting room on Fourth Street by the end of the year. The Chico-based company will serve around 16 different types of beer in a 1,700-square-foot space in the Read Building […]
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
MORE TO DRINK IN THE DRINKS DISTRICT The San Francisco Chronicle named Chris Brockway A Winemaker to Watch in January and named his 2009 Broc Cellars Vine Star California Red one of the top wines of 2011. Now Brockway is opening a tasting room at Broc Cellars at 805 Camelia St. on weekends from noon to […]
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New Berkeley winery Urbano Cellars throws opening party
Urbano Cellars is throwing a grad re-opening party on Feb. 4 to celebrate its move into its near headquarters on Fourth Street in Berkeley.
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
New on Center Street: Green Earth Café DOWNTOWN LOCAVORE New, as of yesterday, to Center Street’s “restaurant row”: the Green Earth Café & Bakery, which offers a “Local Organic Vegan Ethical Sustainable (L.O.V.E.S.)” menu using the principles of macrobiotics. Owners Barbara Johnston-Brown and Ciren Zhuoga are serving salads, soups, sandwiches, wraps, unigiri, burritos, tacos, and […]
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Shop Talk: Design store in, one out; new Korean eatery
Closing: furniture and design outlet Trove TROVELESS After six years in Berkeley, interior design and home furnishings store Trove will shutter its two outlets at Gilman Village — but only once it has sold off all its inventory. Bargains are in order now with most items discounted 60-75%. Owner Diane Haydon says she plans to take […]
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A natural approach: Berkeley’s Donkey & Goat winery
Jared Brandt, co-owner of Donkey & Goat, takes a wine sample from a barrel The exterior of Berkeley’s Donkey & Goat winery is urban in the extreme. Its entrance sits behind steel doors in a concrete tilt-up building on Fourth Street, and the front door looks out on a parking lot. Interstate 80 is less […]
