Lawrence Rinder (above), director of the Berkeley Art Museum, recently shared some of his favorite East Bay haunts with the Chronicle.

Here’s his list:

• Vietnamese restaurant Le Petit Cheval on Bancroft
• Alley’s piano bar on Grand Avenue
• Italian bar Adesso on Piedmont Avenue
• Eco Home Improvement on San Pablo
• “Funky” arts venue 21 Grand in Oakland
• Creative Growth in Oakland
• Lacis, Berkeley’s lace museum (who knew?).
• Albany Bulb, “a wild and woolly old dump site” which Berkeleyside’s Mark Haas wrote about here.
• UC Botanical Garden

Read why he loves these places in the Chronicle story here.