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Keba Konte: Serving coffee with color, social justice
With the first Red Bay Coffee Roasters café, Keba Konte hopes to transform low-wage jobs and bring some diversity into the coffee business.
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Saul’s applies to build a parklet in front of deli
The Jewish deli has applied for a permit to build a parklet, which would be the third approved under a Berkeley pilot program launched last year.
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Berkeley’s first parklet opens in the Gourmet Ghetto
San Francisco and Oakland have them, and now Berkeley can boast its own parklet too!
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Berkeley’s first 2 parklets to open this fall
It’s taken a while, but the Gourmet Ghetto should soon welcome too parklets for noshers and passers-by.
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North Berkeley merchants want parklets for the people
Gourmet Ghetto businesses want to build parklets in their neighborhood but the city doesn’t have an approval process in place as yet to review applications for these slivers of open space designed to enhance urban neighborhoods.
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Local food names sign up for Berkeley Off The Grid truck
Lush Gelato, voted by Berkeleyside readers as the best ice cream shop in Berkeley, will be going mobile tonight and serving its scoops from the guest truck at street food-fest Off The Grid — and a number of other local food names have signed up for future Wednesdays. The Juice Bar Collective is planning on […]
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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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Pop-up restaurants are popping up around town
Top left: Chef Nigel Jones plates at the pop-up Kingston 11 (courtesy Guerilla Cafe), Top right: Finishing touches for main meals at dine@ at Local 123 (courtesy of dine@), Bottom left: Pop-up diners at Local 123 (courtesy dine@), Bottom right: Pop-up chef Suzanne Drexhage chats with a guest (courtesy: Skyla Olds). Listen up locavores in […]
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Berkeley Bites: Berkeley Student Food Collective
It seems unthinkable that the People’s Republic of Berkeley has existed without a food co-operative for more than two decades. Well, try not to choke on your non-GMO, organic, fair trade, soymilk chai latte, but the co-op is coming back to Berkeley. The Consumer’s Cooperative of Berkeley was the place to shop for the politically correct […]
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Eat Real Lit Fest features Berkeley scribes
The second annual Eat Real Festival, a three-day showcase of the best of the Bay Area’s street food carts, local growers, artisan beer and wine purveyors, cheese makers, urban homesteaders, and other local food crafters kicks off tomorrow at Jack London Square in downtown Oakland. The event that promises to “Put the Food Back in […]
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Berkeley Bites: Novella Carpenter
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. Novella Carpenter grows greens and raises rabbits, goats, chickens, and bees on a dead-end street in the ghetto. The dumpster diver and […]