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By 1975, the Cheese Board began to experiment with baking bread, originally in small quantities as an informal, impromptu sideline to cheese. The bread sales marked a shift from a purely mercantile business model of buying and selling cheese to a mixed model that combines on-site, artisanal hand-production with domestic and import retail.
Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto is a historic building and was a seafood restaurant active from 1890 to 2018, at 1919 4th Street in Berkeley, California. The building is listed as a Berkeley Landmark since November 2, 1998. [1] A historic plaque was formally installed at the entrance to the restaurant in 2004 by Berkeley Historical Plaque Project. [2]
Chez Panisse was founded in 1971 by U.C. Berkeley film studies professor Paul Aratow and Alice Waters, who had been a student of the French language, a political activist, and a world traveler. The restaurant opened in an Arts and Crafts-style home on Shattuck Avenue, and featured French-style dinners but made with locally grown ingredients ...
Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of California cuisine and the farm-to-table movement, opened and owned by Alice Waters. The restaurant emphasizes ingredients rather than technique and has developed a supply network of direct relationships with local farmers, ranchers and dairies.
The Homemade Cafe was a casual restaurant in Berkeley, California that served comfort food from 1979 until closing in 2024. It gained national attention for its "Everybody Eats" program to provide free meals to those in the community experiencing food insecurity .
Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef, restaurateur, food writer, and author. In 1971, she opened Chez Panisse, a restaurant in Berkeley, California, famous for its role in creating the farm-to-table movement and for pioneering California cuisine.
By 1975, Reddy had opened a successful Indian cuisine restaurant in downtown Berkeley. He used its profits to purchase over 1,000 run-down apartments, making him, by the year 2000, the largest and wealthiest landlord in the city (other than the University of California), with a worth estimated at US$ 69 million .
In North Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue is the location of the Gourmet Ghetto, an unofficial district known for its density of restaurants. From there the street leads south to Downtown Berkeley. Shattuck is an important north–south arterial roadway for northern Alameda County connecting the downtowns of Berkeley and Oakland. In the early 20th ...