The North Bay fires are no longer raging, but the East Bay continues to help
East Bay restaurants, food retails and food organizations are banding together for recovery efforts with long-term social justice in mind.
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Updated: East Bay food businesses helping those affected by North Bay fires
Here's a list of East Bay restaurants, bars and food businesses collecting donations, raising money or sending supplies for North Bay relief efforts.
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Photos: It’s harvest time at Berkeley’s wineries
Crush season means taking delivery of grapes, de-stemming and crushing them, by foot or machine, and getting the fermentation started.
Novel Brewing, Stay Gold Deli, dinners, more
A new Italian-American style deli to West Oakland, a new brewery to North Oakland, and lots of delicious-sounding dinners and food events for you this week.
Ex Donkey & Goat staffer to face trial for wine theft
At a preliminary hearing discussion centered on whether wine was stolen or taken legitimately by three former employees of the West Berkeley winery.
Donkey & Goat workers face wine theft charges
The Berkeley winery's owners were devastated to discover that former employees may have embezzled as much as $70,490 worth of wine.
Winemakers scramble to keep up with 2015 harvest
The 2015 harvest has come early and East Bay winemakers are hustling — and doing a lot of driving — to keep up.
A kosher harvest at Covenant Winery in Berkeley
Covenant is making its first wine in Berkeley after moving from Napa -- kosher, but not just for Jews says co-owner Jeff Morgan.
Crush: East Bay wine, food fest in Berkeley for 17th year
Crush, the annual East Bay wine and food festival, takes place this Sunday, Nov. 11, and, incredibly, the gourmet get-together is marking its 17th year in Berkeley.
Grape harvest comes to Berkeley at Donkey & Goat
Jared Brandt, the co-owner and winemaker of Donkey & Goat on Fifth Street in Berkeley, isn’t getting much sleep these days. It is harvest time all around California, and Brandt and his co-workers have spent hours driving to El Dorado and Mendocino Counties to help harvest Syrah and Pinot Noir grapes. Once the grapes are trucked back to the winery, they are sorted, some stems are removed, and then the whole clusters are put into barrels to ferment, just a few steps on the long path to becoming some of the winery’s award-winning wine.
Berkeley buildings defaced after graffiti event
Following an underground graffiti event that drew thousands of people to a vacant west Berkeley warehouse on Saturday, September 8, many buildings in the area were tagged leaving their owners and local residents dismayed.
Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
MORE TO DRINK IN THE DRINKS DISTRICT The San Francisco Chronicle named Chris Brockway A Winemaker to Watch in January and named his 2009 Broc Cellars Vine Star California Red one of the top wines of 2011. Now Brockway is opening a tasting room at Broc Cellars at 805 Camelia St. on weekends from noon to 5 p.m. Its official opening is July 22, but Brockway will do a soft launch this weekend. Wine lovers can visit the other wineries in the drinks district, too. Donkey & Goat’s tasting room is open from 2 to 6 pm weekends at 1340 Fifth St. And Urbano Cellars Winery’s tasting room at 2323B Fourth St. is open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. (more…)
Can car-free ‘Sunday Streets’ come to Berkeley?
Thirty-six years ago, the mayor of Bogatá, Colombia had a novel idea. He wanted to close some of the city streets on Sundays to give bicycle riders, roller skaters and pedestrians a chance to enjoy the city in a different way.
