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Teni East Kitchen relocates to Piedmont Avenue
When we walked into the new Turkish restaurant on Berkeley’s Fourth Street, more than half of the tables sat empty. But without a reservation,...
Greenling Fish Market champions local seafood
Since last fall’s crabbing season, Greenling Fish Market has sold locally caught fish—halibut, cod, rockfish and salmon—at the South Berkeley Farmers’ Market. The Greenling...
Bake Sum balances expansion with employee well-being
In 2021, Joyce Tang started Bake Sum at the Bread Project’s commissary kitchen. Five years later the bakery moved into a second location in...
Kantine brings Nordic cooking home
Laminated pastries are my primary vice. If they’re in any way descended from or related to their European ancestors, I’ve sought them out in...
Umami Mart bottles a taste of Japan
Umami Mart started as a blog and then materialized IRL as a pop-up in Oakland before expanding into its current incarnation as a specialty...
Sightglass Coffee comes to Berkeley
Shortly after Sightglass Coffee opened on Seventh Street in 2011, a friend of mine walked me through SoMa to the San Francisco cafe and...
Crystal Wahpepah’s first cookbook celebrates Native cuisine
When Crystal Wahpepah opened Wahpepah’s Kitchen five years ago, Native food spaces were, even that recently, still hard to find. When she was a...
Kitsch Coffee opens in Jack London Square
Déjà vu hit me the second I stepped inside Kitsch Coffee. It took me a minute to realize I’d stepped back in time to...











