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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses

Source Mini, a vegan restaurant in the Gourmet Ghetto, shut down on July 18. Its owner said he did not get enough business. Photo: Source Mini SOURCE MINI SHUTTERS UNEXPECTEDLY Source Mini, an offshoot of San Francisco’s Source restaurant, opened to great fanfare in the Gourmet Ghetto’s Epicurious Garden at 1511 Shattuck Ave. in January 2014. Owner Mitchell […]

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Protesters stage ‘Black Brunch’ on Berkeley’s Fourth Street

A Black Brunch protester makes a black power salute at Tacubaya restaurant on Fourth Street on Sat. Jan. 3, 2014. Photo: Blake Simons More than two dozen African-American students, many from UC Berkeley, tried to disrupt “business as usual” on Saturday by staging a protest in Berkeley’s upscale Fourth Street shopping district. The students, as well […]