Homegrown truths: Sunny Side Café chef Aaron French
Self-described eco-chef Aaron French. Photo: Elizabeth Tichenor Aaron French, a self-described eco-chef, has headed up the kitchen at The Sunny Side Café on Solano Avenue in Albany since it opened in...
View ArticleAwards tap Berkeley taste makers for national contest
Good Food Awards Berkeley-based judges: Dafna Kory (photo: Jeffery Kong); Michael Pollan (James Collier) and June Taylor (Leigh Connors) Berkeley’s food mavens will likely be out in force tonight at...
View ArticleDarryl Kimble: 27 years cooking breakfast at Bette’s Diner
Chef Darryl Kimble takes a break from behind the stoves to talk breakfast. Photo: Sarah Henry In the restaurant business, chefs change jobs about as often as the lead in a Superbowl playoff. So to have...
View ArticleLocal 123 finds its feet in West Berkeley and beyond
As well as serving coffee and food, Local 123, at 2049 San Pablo Avenue in west Berkeley, has a carefully curated line-up of local artists and frequent events — from pop-up dinners and patio barbecues...
View ArticleBites: What’s new, what’s hot, what’s happening, V
Bites is Nosh’s round-up of restaurant and bar news in the East Bay. Got a tip or a scoop? Send it our way at nosh@berkeleyside.com. Christina Mitchell, founder of East Bay Dish, is the main voice...
View ArticleShop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
Caffe Venezia: to close after 33 years CAFFE VENEZIA Caffe Venezia, on University Avenue at Grant Street, will close before this summer after 33 years of operation in Berkeley. Owners Jeff Wizig and...
View ArticleBites: What’s new, what’s hot, what’s happening, VI
Bites is Nosh’s round-up of restaurant and bar news in the East Bay. Got a tip or a scoop? Send it our way at nosh@berkeleyside.com. Christina Mitchell, founder of East Bay Dish, is the main voice...
View ArticleShop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
A furniture company will move into 2001 San Pablo Ave. SAN PABLO & UNIVERSITY The area around San Pablo and University Avenues is buzzing with new tenants moving in to vacant retail spaces. As...
View ArticleBites: What’s new, what’s hot, what’s happening, X
Bites is Nosh’s round-up of restaurant and bar news in the East Bay. Got a tip or a scoop? Send it our way at nosh@berkeleyside.com. Bites is produced by Nosh in collaboration with Christina Mitchell,...
View ArticleNosh Talk: Hugh Groman, Phil’s Sliders
Hugh Groman has no secrets when it comes to junk food Nosh Talk is a regular Q&A with an East Bay chef, restaurateur or food artisan, published on Berkeleyside Nosh, in which we snoop for inside...
View ArticleBest burgers in the East Bay: Nosh readers call it
Burgers from TrueBurger at 146 Grand Ave. in Oakland, which got the most votes among Noshers. The good news? A second TrueBurger is coming to 4101 Broadway soon. Photo: TrueBurger A while ago (OK,...
View ArticleProtesters 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...
View ArticleBites: Antoinette, Temescal Brewing, Belotti, more
The dining room at the newly opened Antoinette Brasserie at the Claremont Hotel. Photo: Fairmont Group Openings, closings… ANTOINETTE BRASSERIE AT CLAREMONT NOW OPEN Last week, we gave you an update on...
View ArticleNosh on the town: ‘A taste of West Berkeley’ tour
Eduardo Morell slices bread at his bakery in West Berkeley. Photo: Emilie Raguso It’s really hard to not fill up on bread when it’s this good. There’s hearty, earthy 100% rye topped with a generous...
View ArticleLocal restaurants raise money for edible education
Potentially lost in the tsunami of stories of all things Chez Panisse this week — see yesterday’s Berkeleyside Wire and this post today for a fraction of the coverage circulating in anticipation of...
View ArticleHomegrown truths: Sunny Side Café chef Aaron French
Self-described eco-chef Aaron French. Photo: Elizabeth Tichenor Aaron French, a self-described eco-chef, has headed up the kitchen at The Sunny Side Café on Solano Avenue in Albany since it opened in...
View ArticleAwards tap Berkeley taste makers for national contest
Good Food Awards Berkeley-based judges: Dafna Kory (photo: Jeffery Kong); Michael Pollan (James Collier) and June Taylor (Leigh Connors) Berkeley’s food mavens will likely be out in force tonight at...
View ArticleDarryl Kimble: 27 years cooking breakfast at Bette’s Diner
Chef Darryl Kimble takes a break from behind the stoves to talk breakfast. Photo: Sarah Henry In the restaurant business, chefs change jobs about as often as the lead in a Superbowl playoff. So to have...
View ArticleLocal 123 finds its feet in West Berkeley and beyond
As well as serving coffee and food, Local 123, at 2049 San Pablo Avenue in west Berkeley, has a carefully curated line-up of local artists and frequent events — from pop-up dinners and patio barbecues...
View Article4 East Bay names finalists in Good Food Awards
The Good Food Awards marketplace at San Francisco’s Ferry Building in 2012. Photo: seedlingprojects Four East Bay food producers are finalists in the national 2013 Good Food Awards. West Berkeley...
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