Berkeley’s Iyasare: A game-changer for the East Bay By Kate WilliamsMay 12201411:45 a.m.Nov. 7 Chef Shotaro Kamio’s blending of the rustic Japanese cooking of his youth with a modern California ethos is a complete winner.
New restaurants Iyasare, Nido in Chronicle’s Top 100 By Frances DinkelspielMay 920143:41 p.m.Oct. 30 Four Berkeley and five Oakland restaurants have made it into the newly published San Francisco Chronicle Top 100.
Yoshi’s chef to take over O ChamĂ© space in Berkeley By Tracey TaylorJuly 3120133:46 p.m.Nov. 7 Yoshi’s head chef Shotaro “Sho” Kamio is to open his own restaurant in the shuttered O Chame space on Fourth Street.
O ChamĂ© to close after 23 years in Berkeley By Tracey TaylorJuly 2420138 a.m.Nov. 7 O ChamĂ©’s last day is on Sunday July 28 after serving customers on Berkeley’s Fourth Street for 23 years.