The Well Café offers a healthy dose of alternative healing in its food and drinks
Expect handblended herbal teas, house-made golden milk, reishi roast "coffee," and nourishing eats at this new café on Telegraph Avenue.
Alix Wall is an Oakland-based personal chef and freelance writer. She is contributing editor of j. weekly, the Bay Area’s Jewish newspaper, for which she has a monthly food column and writes other features. In addition to Berkeleyside’s Nosh, her writing can be found in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Forward, Edible East Bay and more. Alix is also the founder of The Illuminoshi: The Not-So-Secret Society of Bay Area Jewish Food Professionals and is producer/writer of a documentary in progress called “The Lonely Child.”
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