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Tag Archives: Peet’s
Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
HOT TO TROT Hot sandwich restaurant Toaster Oven is crossing the bridge to the East Bay and opening soon on Telegraph Avenue. The chain, which has three locations in San Francisco, serves meat and vegetarian grilled sandwiches, as well as breakfast sandwiches, shakes and cookies. Toaster Oven Berkeley will be at 2309 Telegraph, right next to Chipotle.
LOCAL COFFEE FIX For Berkeleyans who can’t get enough caffeine fixes from Peet’s, let it be known that the city’s ninth store opened on November 14th at 3200 College Avenue (at Alcatraz) in the space formerly occupied by A’ Cuppa Tea — as previewed by us in September. … Continue reading »
Tagged Elmwood Cafe, Mulholland, Peet's, Sticky Art Lab, Toaster Oven
Berkeley’s Solano Avenue gets sidewalk seating
By Jane Tierney
After three years of planning, Peet’s on Solano has put chairs and tables outside its store on Solano Avenue, helping to create a European-style ambiance for the block.
It took the company that long because of Berkeley’s labyrinth permit process – and the fact not everyone agrees that outside seating is a good thing.
While many people enjoy sidewalk cafes, lingering over espresso, having a leisurely meal and watching the passers-by, others … Continue reading »
Tagged Laurie Capitelli, Peet's, sidewalk seating, Solano Avenue
Berkeley Bites: Mollie Katzen
Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry will ask a well-known, up-and-coming, or under-the-radar food aficionado about their favorite tastes in town, preferred food purveyors and other local culinary gems worth sharing with visitors and residents.
Bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen kick-starts this new column.
Mollie Katzen is perhaps best known for her whimsically illustrated, hand-lettered vegetarian classics Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
The author of a trio of popular children’s cookbooks, … Continue reading »
How Berkeley can you be on TV?
Parenting prevented me from attending the Parenthood premiere bash held in — oops — Oakland not Berkeley.
So instead of viewing the pilot with local luminaries at the beautifully restored Fox Theater in downtown Oaktown, I watched the start of the series from the comfort of my couch in a modest west Berkeley cottage.
Berkeleyside readers will have read here that Oakland, not Berkeley, was the original setting for NBC’s new prime time … Continue reading »
Does Peet’s sell day-old pastries? The owner of the Bread Garden thinks so
In an attempt to increase his business, the owner of the Bread Garden Bakery on Domingo Avenue has put a sign in his store window alerting people that Peet’s Coffee, his next-door neighbor, is selling day-old pastries.
David Morris put up the sign on Tuesday February 23 as a way to lure customers to buy their pastries from his store, rather than Peet’s.
“I have a competitive advantage over Peet’s,” said Morris. “My bakers start work between 1 and … Continue reading »
Tagged Bread Garden, David Morris, Peet's
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