Gail Lillian stands outside her lime-green falafel truck. Photos: Christina Diaz Gail Lillian is one busy street food hawker. The seasoned chef just launched a brand new lime-green truck bearing the Liba label and in a typical week she and her crew of five can do nine food service shifts around the Bay. Case in point: […]
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Ebbett’s Good to Go debuts tonight at Off The Grid
Ebbett’s Good to Go comes to Off the Grid. Photo: Shari Washburn Finally, the local gals get to park their food truck close to home. The duo behind Ebbett’s Good to Go, which currently hawks gourmet sandwiches to the lunchtime office set in Emeryville and San Francisco, will bring their mobile eatery to serve their […]
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Berkeley street style: Geeky good spectacles
Sarah Jackson from Oakland, Barista at Berkeley’s Café Fanny. Photos: Dana Smith Sarah Jackson from Oakland, Barista at Berkeley’s Café Fanny. Photos: Dana Smith By Dana Smith In a city that prides itself on seeking the truth behind the headlines and the nuances beyond the soundbites, it’s not unexpected that Berkeleyans would want to sharpen […]
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Saul’s to cook street food at Berkeley’s Off The Grid
Saul Deli’s Executive Chef Peter Levitt will be cooking up street food from the Off The Grid Truck, Wednesday in Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Saul Deli’s Executive Chef Peter Levitt will be cooking up street food from the Off The Grid Truck, Wednesday in Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Saul Deli‘s Executive Chef Peter Levitt will […]
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Crowds turn out for Berkeley’s inaugural Off The Grid
An estimated 1,000-2,000 people came to Berkeley’s first Off The Grid. Photos: Tracey Taylor An estimated 1,000-2,000 people came to Berkeley’s first Off The Grid. Photos: Tracey Taylor [Update, 8:50 pm: Watch a video of Off The Grid, at foot of story.] Organizer Matt Cohen needn’t have worried about the weather being a dampener — […]
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More local food trucks join Berkeley’s first Off The Grid
An Off The Grid street-food gathering at Fort Mason, San Francisco. Photo: Off The Grid A total of eight food trucks will be working Berkeley’s inaugural Off The Grid street-food event tomorrow night in the Gourmet Ghetto, and four of them are East Bay based vendors. Joining the four who signed up early — Cupkates, Liba Falafel, Hapa […]
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In Berkeley, a venerable grocery market comes under fire
Shirley Ng, owner of Country Cheese Coffee Market, says Monterey Market is under-cutting her prices. Photo: Niclas Ericsson By Niclas Ericsson Emotions are running high in the Northbrae area of Berkeley, and the friendly spirit of the neighborhood is at stake, according to a number of small merchants who are afraid they will not survive in the […]
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Urban homesteader challenges city on sale of edibles
Sophie Hahn, founder, Berkeley Edible Garden Initiative Should city dwellers be allowed to sell their backyard bounty? Sophie Hahn thinks so. The North Berkeley resident wants to share the abundance from her residential produce plot and offset some costs she incurs maintaining her edible garden. But Hahn ran into hiccups with the city last year […]
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Historical North Berkeley corner is renovated
A rendering of what the 100-year-old building at El Dorado and Sutter will look like when renovated. Photo: Trachtenberg Architects Update, 04.10.11: Commenting on this story, several readers have mentioned Ninepatch, a store which served the community for 36 years in this building. Pam Zelnik, daughter of the store’s founder, sent in a photo of the shop, which […]
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Power outage in downtown and north Berkeley
The power outage knocked out traffic lights downtown. Photo: Ryan Tate An electrical power outage knocked out much of downtown Berkeley from about 11:15 a.m. this morning. Berkeleyside has contacted PG&E for more information. Readers and tweeters report that the outage affected an area from Center Street to Shattuck and from Kittredge to at least […]
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A squiggly bike rack gets a woolly makeover in Berkeley
On Saturday afternoon, another of Berkeley’s permanent structures was given a woolly makeover — as yarn-bombing artist Streetcolor and her assistant went to work on the bike rack in front of the former Black Oak Books store on Shattuck Avenue. A crowd gathered to watch the creation come to life, and Streetcolor tells us many […]
