Heather and Jeff Clapp are opening a new thin-crust pizza restaurant in the heart of buzzing Rockridge, and they swear there’s room for them and Zachary’s across the street.
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Announcing: Berkeleyside NOSH, East Bay food news site
Bob Klein, co-owner of Oliveto restaurant and Café in Rockridge,and truffles, featured on newly launched NOSH. Photo: courtesy Oliveto Today sees a thrilling new launch for Berkeleyside and, we hope, an exciting new source of information for East Bay residents on all things edible. With the launch of Berkeleyside NOSH, Berkeleyside has broken out of Berkeley […]
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Oliveto’s Bob Klein can’t get enough of white truffles
Bob Klein of Oliveto, heads to Tuscany every year to hunt for truffles with his pal Giorgio Sacchini. Their bounty is then served up at the Rockridge restaurant.
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Chez Panisse chef opens butcher shop in Berkeley
Former Chez Panisse chef Aaron Rocchino at the cutting table in his new butcher shop on Cedar Street. Photos: Tracey Taylor On Tuesday, Aaron and Monica Rocchino quietly opened the doors to their new business, an artisan butcher shop where the term “snout to tail” really comes into its own. The Local Butcher Shop, in the old […]
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Bill Fujimoto reports from the Berkeley Farmers’ Market
Bill Fujimoto, the former manager of Berkeley’s Monterey Market, recently took a stroll through the Derby Street Berkeley Farmers Market with Bob Klein, owner of Oliveto restaurant. Klein had his video camera in hand to shoot some footage for the Oliveto Community Journal. Fujimoto, a produce expert who left Monterey Market in 2009 and is now […]
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Chez Panisse chef to open artisan butcher shop
Aaron Rocchino preparing duck. Photo: Monica Rocchino Chez Panisse chef Aaron Rocchino and his wife Monica are bringing artisan meat to the heart of the Gourmet Ghetto with the opening this summer of The Local Butcher Shop on Cedar Street in the old Red Hanger Kleaners space. “We think there’s a void in the market […]
