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And, thankfully, it's not a pop-up: Cheeseboard says they’re planning to offer it every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheese Board Pizza Collective\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n512 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cheese+Board+Pizza/@37.8687039,-122.2956605,14z/data=!4m16!1m13!4m12!1m3!2m2!1d-122.252316!2d37.879578!1m6!1m2!1s0x80857ea1344c98af:0x314b749bfb2469c6!2sCheese+Board+Pizza,+1512+Shattuck+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94709!2m2!1d-122.269479!2d37.879872!3e1!3m1!1s0x80857ea1344c98af:0x314b749bfb2469c6\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 549-3055\u003cbr>\nHours: Closed Mon and Sun; Tue-Sat 11:30am-3pm, 4:30pm-8pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cheeseboard?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">The Cheese Board Collective\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CheeseBoardColl\" target=\"_blank\">@CheeseBoardColl\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $ (entrees under $10)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97379,97378\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temescal Alley’s \u003cstrong>Curbside Creamery\u003c/strong> started as a farmers' markets favorite where owner Tori Wentworth would schlep that week’s flavors on a trike to various markets around the Bay Area. Last year, she opened up a brick and mortar shop, featuring an approachable mix of classic options and more far out flavors like Thai iced tea and vanilla malt ball. They’re inclusive, too, featuring a wide selection of nut and coconut-based vegan ice creams and gluten-free cones. A few months ago, they got a soft serve machine and now offer two flavors daily--one of which, they promise, will always be a vegan option. A recent option, a dark chocolate vegan soft serve, had a nutty sweetness from its cashew base and a luxuriously thick texture--I turned my spoon upside down and nothing dripped off--that made for a decadent, ever so slightly healthier twist on an old favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.curbsideoakland.com/#0\" target=\"_blank\">Curbside Creamery\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n482 49th St, Oakland [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Curbside+Creamery/@37.8359096,-122.2620992,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x80857de10cea8acf:0x97a711aa1bbe3ae1?hl=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 250-9804\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Sun 12pm-10pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/curbsidecreamery?ref=br_rs\" target=\"_blank\">Curbside Creamery\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CurbsideCreamry\" target=\"_blank\">@CurbsideCreamry\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $ (entrees under $10)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97381,97380\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany’s \u003cstrong>Boss\u003c/strong> is like a fancier guilt-free version of fast-food chains you ate at growing up. The meat is sustainably raised, there’s gluten-free bread, and even the mayo is non-GMO. And their soft serve, which comes either in a cone or blended into a milkshake has an appropriately high class pedigree as well: the dairy comes from Petaluma’s \u003ca href=\"http://strausfamilycreamery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Straus Family Creamery\u003c/a>, the country’s first 100% organic creamery. The soft serve, like most menu items, is simple and familiar. A cone of swirl simply tastes good: a rich, creamy soft serve that tastes like the quality dairy it’s made from, without any of the dubious powders or mixes that go into the old school machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://weareboss.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Boss\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1187 Solano Ave, Albany [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boss/@37.8905659,-122.2965378,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xa8b69252f8cdf3c3?sa=X&ei=A_uMVeTDKcy1oQT_37KIAg&ved=0CIcBEPwSMAo\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 658-7900\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thur 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm, Sun 11am-10pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boss/812638228768339?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Boss\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $ (entrees under $10)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97384,97383\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeless Coffee Roasters\u003c/strong> is Piedmont Avenue’s best secretly vegan coffee shop, a classy joint filled with dark wood, gleaming pastry cases and exactly zero mentions of the words “vegan” or “cruelty-free.” In addition to the excellent roasted in-house coffee and pastry options (no, that’s not actually sausage in the sausage empanada), they offer rotating flavors of soft serve, served plain, in an affogato or as part of an extravagant float. When I visited, they had two soft serve options, a soy-based vanilla and a mango pineapple made of just fruit, sugar and water. The fruit option I had was a sunny yellow color and a bright, fruit forward taste. The texture was a marvel, remarkably smooth and non-icy, and the flavor was just sweet enough, letting the already sweet tropical fruit flavor shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.timelesscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Timeless Coffee Roasters\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4252 Piedmont Ave, Oakland [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Timeless+Coffee+Roasters/@37.8282089,-122.249823,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xf25f018ec0b75f12\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: 510) 985-1360\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri 7am-6pm; Sat-Sun 8am-6pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Timeless-Coffee-Roastery-and-Bakery/128809113937051?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Timeless Coffee Roastery and Bakery\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Timelesscoffee\" target=\"_blank\">@Timelesscoffee\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $ (entrees under $10)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97385,97387,97386\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California chain \u003cstrong>Fosters Freeze\u003c/strong>, which has locations in Alameda and Berkeley, serves food, but it seems like an afterthought. Everyone knows that ice cream is what they do best--after all, their logo is a cheerful, anthropomorphized soft serve cone named Little Foster. Stalwartly refusing to serve anything local, organic or good for you, what Fosters Freeze does offer is giant portions, low prices, and for adults, a hearty serving of nostalgia (the chain has been around the 1940s). The soft serve is very different than newer, fancier options, with a thin texture and a noticeably large amount of sugar. There’s not a lot of difference in taste between the chocolate and vanilla in a swirl cone: if you shut your eyes you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, and they instead combine into a tooth-achingly sweet homogeneous chocolate vanilla combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But oh, then there’s the drip. For a mere 50 cents your cone is upended into a pot of chocolate, emerging with a thin delicate chocolate shell that produces a delightful, delicate crunch. It’s a marvel of engineering that always produces a picture perfect cone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Fosters' decor is dated, full of orange plastic booths and yellow chandeliers, and their soft serve might be slightly bitter if you think about it too long. But does it matter? On a recent warm Sunday afternoon, Fosters Freeze is packed: with families arguing over who ate the Reese’s chunks out of a Blizzard, groups of adults discussing a friend’s new play, and tweens waiting outside with their beach cruisers, all happily eating towering cones of soft serve that’s cold, sweet and cheap. And really, on a hot summer day, what more do you need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fostersfreeze.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fosters Freeze\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n630 Central Ave, Alameda [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Foster's+Freeze/@37.7713399,-122.2781428,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x99a8854f56def74e?sa=X&ei=2gGNVZy7Ooq5oQTp0JPQDA&ved=0CIUBEPwSMAo\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 521-1242\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Sun 10:30am-8:30pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FostersFreezeAlameda\" target=\"_blank\">Fosters Freeze Alameda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FostersAlameda\" target=\"_blank\">@FostersAlameda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $ (entrees under $10)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97390,97389,97388\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plum Bar\u003c/strong>’s dessert menu is entirely composed of soft serve, served in sophisticated upgrades of classic childhood combinations. The soft serve they offer is barely sweet, with pure chocolate or vanilla flavors, making it the perfect base for their sundaes: mint chocolate, chocolate chip cookie, s'mores. A sticky toffee sundae could have easily been too sweet, but was instead remarkably balanced, with a pleasant amount of crunch from the toffee and chocolate shell and a restrained salted caramel topping the chocolate and vanilla swirled soft serve. A more adult option is the affogato, which offers up a playful take on the classic combo. The vanilla soft serve isn’t topped with hot espresso, but is instead paired with housemade coffee bitters, coffee-dripped vodka, and New Orleans coffee liqueur from Alameda’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgespirits.com/\" target=\"_blank\">St. George Spirits\u003c/a>. It’s creamy, rich and bitter, a classy decadent finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://plumbaroakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Plum Bar + Restaurant\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2216 Broadway, Oakland [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Plum/@37.81122,-122.2665469,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x808f80ad3d228dad:0x143b6712d31714f\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 444-7586\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thur 11:30am-12am, Fri 11:30am-2am, Sat 5pm-2am, Closed Sun\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/plumfooddrink?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Plum Bar & Restaurant\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/plumbar1\" target=\"_blank\">@PLUMBAR1\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ (entrees under $20)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"97393,97392,97391\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the rest of the menu, \u003cstrong>Hawker Fare\u003c/strong>’s dessert menu is filled with playful dishes that mix familiar and more obscure ingredients--yes, that is sticky rice topped with durian ice cream. Soft serve makes up the bulk of the list, whether in a cone, sundae or in a condensed milk and Thai coffee affogato. Like the main dishes, you can tell how much attention is paid to layering flavors and textures in a way that’s familiar yet unexpected: the Hawker Sundae features delightfully crunchy puffed rice, sweet salted palm sugar caramel, chewy red beans, and a jasmine whipped cream (a surprisingly perfect way to highlight jasmine’s delicate flavor). Another sundae does the same trick of serving familiar ingredients in unfamiliar formats, featuring an Ovaltine hot fudge sauce that’s surprisingly subtle. Again, there are elements of crunch and chewiness, this time from peanuts and palm seeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hawkerfare.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawker Fare\u003c/a> 2300 Webster St, Oakland [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hawker+Fare/@37.8121154,-122.2650442,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x808f8752d5cf4e61:0x10d85f8c07352675\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 832-8896\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon 11:30am-2:30pm, Tue-Thur 11:30am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9:30; Fri 11:30am-2:30 pm, 5:30pm-10:00pm, Sat 5:30pm-10pm, Closed Sun\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hawkerfareOAK/\" target=\"_blank\">@hawkerfareOAK\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ (entrees under $20)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The disputed UC Berkeley land next to Albany’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/gill-tract/\" target=\"_blank\">Gill Tract\u003c/a> is in contention no more. Last week, the California Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the university to build a senior housing development and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/sprouts-farmers-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Sprouts Farmers Market\u003c/a> grocery store on San Pablo Avenue in University Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development, on a long-vacant lot next to the Gill Tract research field, has been the site of protests since April 2012 on the part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/occupy-the-farm/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy the Farm\u003c/a>, which has stated that UC Berkeley’s plans would “pave over a rare natural resource” and that the Gill Tract is “public farmland that belongs to the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stefanie Rawlings, of Occupy the Farm, originally filed a lawsuit against the city of Albany and UC Berkeley that alleged that the city’s approved Environmental Impact Report was deficient. When Rawlings lost the suit, she filed an appeal on the grounds that the report did not lay out appropriate alternatives for the building plan, and that the city did not appropriately consider the alternatives listed.\u003cspan id=\"more-195689\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Occupy participant Vanessa Raditz, a public-health student at UC Berkeley, said the city’s “failure to explore alternatives is a severe public health threat to the community. This area has long been known for its dangerous air pollution from the 580 and 80 freeways and the Pacific Steel Casting factory, which has led to high levels of asthma in the community. The EIR highlights that the proposed development would be bringing in 6,500 new cars per day on Monroe Street, right next to the village daycare center, the little league fields, and Oceanview Elementary School. The EIR even states clearly that these traffic impacts cannot be mitigated. The only solution is a smaller project or none at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts disagreed and rejected the appeal June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peter Maass expressed strong support for the project. “After a very extensive planning and vetting process, I was happy to hear that the last of the legal hurdles has been cleared,” he said in a prepared statement. “With its attention to walking and cycling access, creek restoration, green building standards and more, this project will set a high standard for urban development and will have enduring benefits for the Albany community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the legal challenges have been mitigated, tenants plan to begin construction later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432.jpg\" alt=\"The site plan for UC Berkeley’s mixed-use project in Albany.\" width=\"720\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site plan for UC Berkeley’s mixed-use project in Albany.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The development was initially approved by the city of Albany in 2014, though it had been part of a community planning process that had been ongoing for several years. It originally included a Whole Foods Market in addition to the senior housing complex. But Whole Foods pulled out of the project after the prolonged protests, and Sprouts signed on. While Occupy the Farm contends that the project will destroy the Gill Tract community farm, construction is not planned on either the 10-acre agricultural research fields where there is a community farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupy the Farm has argued that the Gill Tract historically spanned the entirety of the area where University Village, UC Berkeley’s family housing development, was built, and is not limited only to the research fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97492\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-24-at-11.12.44-AM.png\" alt=\"Approved public art by Bruce Beasley. \" width=\"210\" height=\"258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97492\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approved public art by Bruce Beasley. \u003ccite>(City of Albany)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current plans also include the construction of new walking and bike paths, as well as a 22-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by East Bay artist Bruce Beasley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to their opposition to the construction as a whole, the protesters contend that Sprouts is a poor choice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany Mayor Peter Maass expressed strong support for the project. “After a very extensive planning and vetting process, I was happy to hear that the last of the legal hurdles has been cleared,” he said in a prepared statement. “With its attention to walking and cycling access, creek restoration, green building standards and more, this project will set a high standard for urban development and will have enduring benefits for the Albany community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the legal challenges have been mitigated, tenants plan to begin construction later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432.jpg\" alt=\"The site plan for UC Berkeley’s mixed-use project in Albany.\" width=\"720\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/homepage_project_site__0-720x432-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site plan for UC Berkeley’s mixed-use project in Albany.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The development was initially approved by the city of Albany in 2014, though it had been part of a community planning process that had been ongoing for several years. It originally included a Whole Foods Market in addition to the senior housing complex. But Whole Foods pulled out of the project after the prolonged protests, and Sprouts signed on. While Occupy the Farm contends that the project will destroy the Gill Tract community farm, construction is not planned on either the 10-acre agricultural research fields where there is a community farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupy the Farm has argued that the Gill Tract historically spanned the entirety of the area where University Village, UC Berkeley’s family housing development, was built, and is not limited only to the research fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97492\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-24-at-11.12.44-AM.png\" alt=\"Approved public art by Bruce Beasley. \" width=\"210\" height=\"258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97492\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approved public art by Bruce Beasley. \u003ccite>(City of Albany)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current plans also include the construction of new walking and bike paths, as well as a 22-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture by East Bay artist Bruce Beasley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to their opposition to the construction as a whole, the protesters contend that Sprouts is a poor choice. They have organized regular protest events at Bay Area Sprouts locations, most recently at the Fremont and Mountain View locations May 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sprouts is not a Farmer’s Market. Using that name for a big-box supermarket is an insult to local farmers who are actually working to fix our broken food system,” said Hank Herrera of New Hope Farms and the Gill Tract Farm Coalition in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last protest to take place at Gill Tract concerned \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/02/26/53-trees-come-down-on-uc-berkeley-land-as-grocery-store-senior-living-project-kicks-off/\">the removal of 53 trees\u003c/a> on the property this past February. Occupy the Farm also disrupted a UC Regents meeting May 21, carrying signs saying, “We want produce, not privatization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While burritos are ubiquitous in U.S. Mexican restaurants, some argue that they aren’t an authentic Mexican dish. Indeed, the history of the burrito is a muddled one. Researchers have traced their origin to central Mexico in 1895 — likely the clever, practical result of wrapping just-cooked food in a tortilla to keep it warm — but they only exist today in the northern part of the country, the province of flour tortillas (as opposed to corn). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Chihuahua, for example, you’ll find small burritos of thin (and not super-glutinous) tortillas wrapped around just two ingredients: meat or fish and beans or potatoes. In other words, a real burrito doesn’t resemble anything we find today in the Bay Area.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11678823,bayareabites_114118\"]\u003cbr>\nThat said, we sure do eat a lot of them. Burritos in the U.S. have experienced much the same fate as has pizza in North American hands: anything goes. More traditional Mexican restaurants have developed their own burrito styles within the general parameters of rice, beans, and animal protein, while less traditional are all over the map in terms of fillings. Both tend to be enormous, enough for two or more people to share, and both styles are discussed here, primarily because the latter offer more variety for vegetarians. And I haven’t considered tortillas at all, as I have yet to find a flour tortilla in a burrito joint that I would recommend on its own merit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the sake of consistent comparison, I primarily tried carne asada and carnitas burritos, but also went for promising vegetarian options and pursued a few one-off standouts recommended by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an Oakland-heavy list because of its destination neighborhood for Mexican food, Fruitvale. Berkeley gets a few hits in the traditional department as well, and the more experimental vegetarian styles tend to appear in the hipster lands of downtown Oakland and West Berkeley. Richmond also has a solid collection of Mexican restaurants that made the cut for burritos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did I miss your go-to burrito spots in the East Bay? Please feel free to share your favorites in the comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97085,97086,97087\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mi Grullense\u003c/strong>, the always-hopping duo of trucks outside the Goodwill store on Fruitvale and 30th, is one of my top three taco places in Oakland, so it’s no surprise that their burritos stack up. The asada is chopped small, which allows pieces to get crispy on the griddle, and the meat-to-other-ingredients ratio is high. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burritos are served with whole pinto beans, melty white cheese, and the usual short-grain-rice. The carnitas are among the best I’ve tried in the East Bay, crispy but not greasy, and medium-chunky. Make sure to ask for salsa, a slightly bitter, medium-spicy, pureed chile blend (mostly arbol).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/mi-grullense-taco-truck-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Mi Grullense\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1301 30th Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/nnGx5r\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94601\u003cbr>\nPh: none\u003cbr>\nHours: Sun-Thurs, 8am-midnight; Fri-Sat, 8am-2am\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003cbr>\nCash only\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97094,97093,97095\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mi Tierra\u003c/strong> is a grocery store in West Berkeley that has fresh-pressed juices in the morning, made-to-order burritos all day, and a killer selection of piñatas. The destination burrito here is desebrada, moist shredded beef, made mojado style (smothered in a bright, tart, and mildly spicy green chile sauce and white cheese). I’ll be back for the carnitas, big chunks of crispy pork just hacked off of a big hunk of shoulder. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While their flour tortillas are packaged (as are those of every burrito spot on this list), they’re the best I’ve found for my own home use—flaky, relatively light, and not too chewy. I love going in at midday and waiting in line at the counter with the neighborhood crowd, an interesting mix of laborers, hipsters, and moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/mi-tierra-foods-berkeley\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Mi Tierra\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2082 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/5b9awX\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94710\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 540-8946\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 7am-9pm\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97100,97099,97102,97101,97098\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>La Mission Mexican Grill\u003c/strong>, a welcoming spot on the University Avenue strip in Berkeley, is a place I’d never been until a friend recommended their spicy chicken mole. While I typically wouldn’t think of mole as a burrito filling, this version was unabashedly spicy, which I appreciated, and full of surprisingly tart pickled onions. But it worked, as did the lamb barbacoa, which I got with black beans instead of the requisite pintos. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the sake of due diligence, I also tried the carne asada, a solid bet, though not as exciting as the other two. The rice here is a bit longer-grained than the norm, and it’s good for absorbing the wonderful sauces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-mission-berkeley?osq=la+mission+mexican+grill\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>La Mission Mexican Grill\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1255 University Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/vz2V45\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94702\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 845-5898\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Sat, 8am to midnight; Sun, 9am-11pm\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97111,97112,97109,97110\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Picante\u003c/strong>, in West Berkeley, was one of the first Mexican restaurants in the East Bay pitched to a broad audience, with a focus on well-sourced ingredients. Over the years, the menu has gotten unwieldy and the quality of the cooking, quite unpredictable. But it’s still a good choice for vegetarian burritos, especially the carbo-laden rajas con papas: roasted poblano peppers with soft, peeled potatoes, caramelized onions, pinto beans (or black, if you prefer), and crema. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another vegetarian mainstay is the legumbres picadillo: potatoes, carrots, and zucchini in an ancho-guajillo chile marinade with crema. The carnitas is also respectable, though more stewy than crispy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.picanteberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Picante\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1328 Sixth St. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/UKYa0I\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94710\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 525-3121\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 11am-10pm; Sat-Sun, 10am-10pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/picanteberkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Picante\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97118,97120,97121,97119,97122\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two places on this burrito tour offered suadero, a beef cut from between the belly and the leg — and it’s the best meat I can think of for rolling up in a tortilla because, while while carne asada and carnitas lose any crispiness they might have started with in the steamy confines of a wrap, suadero isn’t meant to be crispy, just meltingly fatty, along the textural lines of beef cheek. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Paisa@.com, oddly named as the place doesn’t seem to have an online presence, was recommended to me by a friend for its organ meats. While I’ll eat just about anything, I don’t go out of my way for offal, but this is a kitchen that treats all its meats with care, and then pairs them up with crazy-good salsas. The medium green is lovely on the suadero, while the slightly bitter red is good with the carnitas. The asada, pleasantly salty and coarsely chopped, goes well with the pickled jicama, quite spicy and addictively crunchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-paisa-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Taqueria El Paisa@.com\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4610 International Blvd. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/RYJz5S\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94601\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 534-2180\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 9am-9pm\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97128,97126,97127\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of two Richmond burrito finds, \u003cstrong>Taqueria La Bamba\u003c/strong> looks like a 1950s drive-in. Once inside, the atmosphere is oddly sedate, with bad lighting and no music. But the food is more thoughtful. The carne asada is smoky and tender, and the carnitas a perfect combination of soft interior and crispy edges. Both are rolled up, without fanfare or choices, with pinto beans and rice cooked in a little tomato sauce, with pico de gallo upon request (recommended).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-la-bamba-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Taqueria La Bamba\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n12345 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/mpp3tZ\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nRichmond, CA 94805\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 235-2288\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 11am-10pm; Sat-Sun, 10am-10pm\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97131,97132\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other Fruitvale truck I found that serves the elusive suadero, \u003cstrong>Tacos Sinaloa\u003c/strong>, also has excellent carnitas. There are two trucks on the same lot; one serves seafood dishes in addition to the rest of the menu. So, if you’re ordering only meat items, choose the shortest line. There’s almost always a wait, but the line tends to move quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suadero is juicy and delicate, with thin sautéed onions and dark, medium-spicy salsa, while the carnitas is as good as they come: crispy and deeply flavorful. The friendly servers will add any condiments you like for free, including raw onions and cilantro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-sinaloa-oakland-2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Tacos Sinaloa\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2138 International Blvd. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/YCJIcX\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94606\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 535-1206\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 10am-10pm (truck hours are irregular, so call ahead)\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003cbr>\nCash only\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97137,97135,97136\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tres Hermanas\u003c/strong> is my favorite of the new places I tried, a sit-down restaurant in Richmond that’s open for breakfast, lunch, and early dinner. I ordered a desebrada (shredded beef) burrito at the recommendation of our server, and a carnitas, too. Both were generously meat-centric, not weighed down by beans, the latter served with chopped white onions, a nice touch. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The desebrada is one of the few burritos I ordered as “super” because the guacamole had just been made and it was a very simple version, as I think good guacamole tends to be: just avocadoes, tomatoes, onion, and cilantro. I’ll definitely be back to try their big breakfast plates in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/3-hermanas-mexican-home-cooking-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Tres (3) Hermanas\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n12622 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/dmh3nD\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nRichmond, CA 94805\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 237-1094\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thurs, 8am-7pm; Fri-Sat, 8am-7:30pm; Sun, 8am-5pm\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97144,97146,97145\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Xolo\u003c/strong> is the new Mexican restaurant from the owners of Doña Tomas and Tacubaya, and I recommend it here particularly for its vegetarian burritos. While they’re smaller and more expensive than average, they’re made with actual vegetarians in mind, not just people who want to avoid meat. 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The chile relleno burrito sounds unappealing, but the crispy, cheese-stuffed poblano is quite delicious with black beans and a mild tomato-chile sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://xolotaqueria.com\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Xolo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1916 Telegraph Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/eeaIk9\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 986-0101\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Tues, 9am-10pm; Wed-Thurs, 9am-11pm; Fri-Sat, 9am-midnight; closed Sundays\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/XoloTaqueria\" target=\"_blank\">Xolo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter:\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/XoloTaqueria\" target=\"_blank\"> @XoloTaqueria\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"97151,97149,97150\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I showed up at \u003cstrong>Taqueria Los Comales\u003c/strong> early during weekday lunch, and was surprised to find no one sitting at tables, but a line out the door and down the block. 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Its natural fruitiness worked well on both burritos, even in small amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-los-comales-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Taqueria Los Comales\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2105 MacArthur Blvd. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/UtzQld\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94602\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 531-3660\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 9am-8:30pm; Sat, 9am-4pm; closed Sundays\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Claire Bradley’s Neapolitan great-grandfather brought the family to Oakland in the late 1930s by way of Brooklyn, where he’d built a successful food-importing business. While Salvatore Esposito was interested in olive oil, it wasn’t a viable business proposition at the time, so the company focused on other Italian imports. In 1989, with the third generation at the helm, the family made a big decision to focus exclusively on sourcing the best olive oil possible. But they didn’t have a storefront then. Instead, the business model focused on bringing high quality olive oil to restaurants and other food businesses. They still count among their wholesale clients Annie’s Organic, Rick and Ann’s, Semifreddis, Cugini Manzone, and Duende.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward to 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva\u003c/a> opened on Domingo Ave. in Berkeley, just below the Claremont Hotel. The shop is filled with\u003cem> fusti\u003c/em>, food-grade stainless steel tanks, full of olive oil from Spain, Portugal, California, Italy, Chile, Australia, Peru, Argentina, Greece, and Tunisia. And a big 750 ml bottle will only run you between $13 and $21, a huge value compared to the equally delicious oils you’ll find in the shops off the square in Healdsburg or St. Helena, where olive oil is viewed more as a luxury commodity than a staple for daily use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora’s philosophy, says Bradley, is to make ultra-premium olive oil accessible to everyone: “We don’t see ourselves as a boutique. We don’t want people to say no to olive oil because of price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their selections are seasonal because producers have two harvest seasons. In the northern hemisphere, the harvest begins in September or October, before the rain sets in. In the southern hemisphere, harvest mostly occurs in May and June. So, depending when you walk in to the store, you might see a Spanish hojiblanca or a Chilean coratina front and center. And the best news is you can taste any of the selections, which are clearly identified by harvest date, free fatty acids (FFA), phenolic content, and peroxide value. But what does all this mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fusti, full of oil ready for tasting, all lined up at Amphora Nueva.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96961\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fusti, full of oil ready for tasting, all lined up at Amphora Nueva. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphenol\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphenols\u003c/a> are the humble olive’s best public relations tool, as their powerful antioxidants are largely what continues to sell Americans on the ingredient that much of the world has used as a base for cooking for thousands of years. But they also contribute significantly to the taste and style of the oil these diverse fruits yield. Do you like the burn at the back of your throat when you taste a bold, herbaceous olive oil? That’s polyphenol. Prefer a lighter, more buttery oil? Go for an oil lower in polyphenols. Whether you like the flavors that pack a polyphenol punch or not, Amphora can hook you up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high FFA can indicate low quality fruit because of processing mistakes, such as too much time between harvesting and extraction or too high a temperature in the milling process. The peroxide value is important because it tells you how long the fruit has been exposed to oxygen; extreme oxidation causes the oil to be rancid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora abides by the \u003ca href=\"http://upextravirginoliveoil.com/ultra-premium-up-standard/chemistry\" target=\"_blank\">standards for Ultra Premium olive oil\u003c/a>, which are even stricter than those for extra-virgin. For example, the extra-virgin standard for FFA is less than .8%, whereas ultra-premium is qualified by less than .3%. And in addition to regularly tasting each oil that they source for its organoleptic qualities, they also send samples to \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernolives.com.au/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Olives\u003c/a> in Australia, whose state-of-the-art lab analyzes the oil’s chemistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a home cook and daily consumer of olive oil, I don’t focus so much on the polyphenol number, although it’s a good guide. Instead, I just taste. I love the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picual\" target=\"_blank\">Picuals\u003c/a>, a common Spanish cultivar that is popular among growers for its high-volume crops and tolerance of a broad range of conditions. The oils from this variety tend to be grassy and strong, and the best are pungent without being bitter. To my palate, this style is best on salads and other raw vegetables. I prefer a Greek \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koroneiki\" target=\"_blank\">Koroneiki\u003c/a> — usually peppery and reminiscent of artichokes — on cooked vegetables and meats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora also carries fusions and infusions of their Ultra Premium olive oils with herbs, fruits, and chiles. (Fusions, called agrumato in Italian, are made when ingredients are added when the olives are pressed; infusions are the result of ingredients added after the oil has been produced.) A fabulous fusion here is the Tunisian Baklouti, in which 10 pounds of the spicy green chiles from North Africa’s Barbary Coast are crushed into each pound of organic olives from the company’s own mill there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora’s house blend oil, which changes regularly, is a great bargain at $13 for 750ml. They also have aged balsamic vinegars and flavored red and white vinegars, good for creating gift combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Aged balsamic and flavored vinegars line the shelves at Amphora.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aged balsamic and flavored vinegars line the shelves at Amphora. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I love about this shop is its completely approachable, unprepossessing and, most importantly, proletariat approach to this healthful and delicious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora opened a second branch in Lafayette in November, 2011 and will open a third in San Anselmo in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva - Berkeley Olive Oil Works\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2928 Domingo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/KCYl1N\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94611\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 704-9300\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 10am-6pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amphoranueva\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora: Berkeley Olive Oil Works\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AMPHORABERKELEY\" target=\"_blank\">@AMPHORABERKELEY\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva Lafayette\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n7 Fiesta Ln. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Claire Bradley’s Neapolitan great-grandfather brought the family to Oakland in the late 1930s by way of Brooklyn, where he’d built a successful food-importing business. While Salvatore Esposito was interested in olive oil, it wasn’t a viable business proposition at the time, so the company focused on other Italian imports. In 1989, with the third generation at the helm, the family made a big decision to focus exclusively on sourcing the best olive oil possible. But they didn’t have a storefront then. Instead, the business model focused on bringing high quality olive oil to restaurants and other food businesses. They still count among their wholesale clients Annie’s Organic, Rick and Ann’s, Semifreddis, Cugini Manzone, and Duende.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward to 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva\u003c/a> opened on Domingo Ave. in Berkeley, just below the Claremont Hotel. The shop is filled with\u003cem> fusti\u003c/em>, food-grade stainless steel tanks, full of olive oil from Spain, Portugal, California, Italy, Chile, Australia, Peru, Argentina, Greece, and Tunisia. And a big 750 ml bottle will only run you between $13 and $21, a huge value compared to the equally delicious oils you’ll find in the shops off the square in Healdsburg or St. Helena, where olive oil is viewed more as a luxury commodity than a staple for daily use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora’s philosophy, says Bradley, is to make ultra-premium olive oil accessible to everyone: “We don’t see ourselves as a boutique. We don’t want people to say no to olive oil because of price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their selections are seasonal because producers have two harvest seasons. In the northern hemisphere, the harvest begins in September or October, before the rain sets in. In the southern hemisphere, harvest mostly occurs in May and June. So, depending when you walk in to the store, you might see a Spanish hojiblanca or a Chilean coratina front and center. And the best news is you can taste any of the selections, which are clearly identified by harvest date, free fatty acids (FFA), phenolic content, and peroxide value. But what does all this mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fusti, full of oil ready for tasting, all lined up at Amphora Nueva.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96961\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2508-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fusti, full of oil ready for tasting, all lined up at Amphora Nueva. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphenol\" target=\"_blank\">Polyphenols\u003c/a> are the humble olive’s best public relations tool, as their powerful antioxidants are largely what continues to sell Americans on the ingredient that much of the world has used as a base for cooking for thousands of years. But they also contribute significantly to the taste and style of the oil these diverse fruits yield. Do you like the burn at the back of your throat when you taste a bold, herbaceous olive oil? That’s polyphenol. Prefer a lighter, more buttery oil? Go for an oil lower in polyphenols. Whether you like the flavors that pack a polyphenol punch or not, Amphora can hook you up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A high FFA can indicate low quality fruit because of processing mistakes, such as too much time between harvesting and extraction or too high a temperature in the milling process. The peroxide value is important because it tells you how long the fruit has been exposed to oxygen; extreme oxidation causes the oil to be rancid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora abides by the \u003ca href=\"http://upextravirginoliveoil.com/ultra-premium-up-standard/chemistry\" target=\"_blank\">standards for Ultra Premium olive oil\u003c/a>, which are even stricter than those for extra-virgin. For example, the extra-virgin standard for FFA is less than .8%, whereas ultra-premium is qualified by less than .3%. And in addition to regularly tasting each oil that they source for its organoleptic qualities, they also send samples to \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernolives.com.au/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Olives\u003c/a> in Australia, whose state-of-the-art lab analyzes the oil’s chemistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a home cook and daily consumer of olive oil, I don’t focus so much on the polyphenol number, although it’s a good guide. Instead, I just taste. I love the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picual\" target=\"_blank\">Picuals\u003c/a>, a common Spanish cultivar that is popular among growers for its high-volume crops and tolerance of a broad range of conditions. The oils from this variety tend to be grassy and strong, and the best are pungent without being bitter. To my palate, this style is best on salads and other raw vegetables. I prefer a Greek \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koroneiki\" target=\"_blank\">Koroneiki\u003c/a> — usually peppery and reminiscent of artichokes — on cooked vegetables and meats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora also carries fusions and infusions of their Ultra Premium olive oils with herbs, fruits, and chiles. (Fusions, called agrumato in Italian, are made when ingredients are added when the olives are pressed; infusions are the result of ingredients added after the oil has been produced.) A fabulous fusion here is the Tunisian Baklouti, in which 10 pounds of the spicy green chiles from North Africa’s Barbary Coast are crushed into each pound of organic olives from the company’s own mill there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora’s house blend oil, which changes regularly, is a great bargain at $13 for 750ml. They also have aged balsamic vinegars and flavored red and white vinegars, good for creating gift combinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Aged balsamic and flavored vinegars line the shelves at Amphora.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_2502-1920-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aged balsamic and flavored vinegars line the shelves at Amphora. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I love about this shop is its completely approachable, unprepossessing and, most importantly, proletariat approach to this healthful and delicious food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amphora opened a second branch in Lafayette in November, 2011 and will open a third in San Anselmo in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva - Berkeley Olive Oil Works\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2928 Domingo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/KCYl1N\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94611\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 704-9300\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 10am-6pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amphoranueva\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora: Berkeley Olive Oil Works\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AMPHORABERKELEY\" target=\"_blank\">@AMPHORABERKELEY\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://amphoranueva.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva Lafayette\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n7 Fiesta Ln. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ShN0UD\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nLafayette, CA 94549\u003cbr>\nPh: (925) 310-4681\u003cbr>\nHours: Sun-Thurs, 10am-6:30pm; Fri-Sat, 10am-7pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AmphoraLafayette\" target=\"_blank\">Amphora Nueva Lafayette\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "UC Berkeley's Student-Run Garden Offers Urban Oasis to Students and Community",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96862\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whenever UC Berkeley student Sara Cate Jones has felt the blues coming on, she’s relied on the same remedy: she goes to the student garden on the corner of Walnut and Virginia streets and picks herself a bouquet of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The garden is always here for you,” said Kate Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Kaplan are two of several student garden managers for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA (Student Organic Garden Association) garden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established in 1971 by a group of students shortly after the first Earth Day, the garden has offered students and the community at large an urban oasis in North Berkeley for over 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a quarter acre in size, the garden sits on a plot of university land, and is overseen by SOGA’s student volunteers. SOGA was founded in 1999 when the university gave the garden space to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">EBMUD\u003c/a> for a pumping station. The students protested and a compromise was reached; the pumping station is now adjacent to the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what’s planted, it’s entirely up to the students; there are several varieties of apple trees, plum and fig trees, flowering plants and bushes like sunflowers and lavatera, succulents and native plants, and of course, plenty of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the garden gets some funding from student fees, SOGA is responsible for applying for grants to keep the garden running, and is also “meant to be the stewards of the garden, to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again,” said Kaplan. “We also make sure relations are good with the administration, and make sure they know what’s going on,” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For example, at one time students brought in chickens and goats without university approval – they are not allowed to raise animals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96864\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaplan emphasized that the garden allows students to connect to a more nontraditional education, which “allows them to build off the lecture-based education we receive and get their hands in the dirt with hands-on experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96861\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several classes are held inside the garden; Organic Gardening and Food Justice is one and Garden Leaders is another, which “teaches students how to do project management within the context of a garden,” said Jones, showing off several projects that were conceived of and brought to fruition by students recently; one was a greenhouse made entirely of reclaimed wood and glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s also what’s known as BUGI, or Berkeley Urban Gardening Internship, which connects students with other urban gardens in Berkeley, and teaches students how to manage a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96860\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while those who take care of it tend to have more than a passing interest in environmentalism, those who take classes in it run the gamut of the entire campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a class of 150 students this spring, their majors were “all over the map,” said Kaplan. “They had majors like math, business, French, everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only organic practices are used in the SOGA garden, the piece of land next door, called the \u003ca href=\"http://nature.berkeley.edu/oxford-facility\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Tract\u003c/a>, is used by professors for their various research projects and the students worry about non-organic pesticides drifting over the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the allies of the garden, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology\" target=\"_blank\">Agroecology\u003c/a> Professor Miguel Altieri, often tries to rent the space closest to the garden where he too gardens organically, but the students can’t control what happens on the other side of the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they sometimes put a sign outside offering the latest harvest to passersby, they don’t have a regular food giveaway because their output isn’t that regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Last year we partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ucberkeleyfoodpantry?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Food Pantry\u003c/a>, providing fresh produce for them to give away,” said Kaplan, noting that their grant money only provided the pantry with non-perishables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students often take the produce to share with their roommates, and community members are welcome to drop by when the garden is open, to see if anything has been freshly harvested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(During my visit, one woman dropped by to ask advice about why her apple tree wasn’t fruiting, and another man came by to see if he could score some kale or chard leaves.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many longtime neighbors barely know it’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most neighbors who come in are super excited to see it,” said Kaplan. “Most say they have to come by more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the students have led some programming for local schoolchildren, and offer workshops through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>, they admit that because of a lack of continuity in management, sometimes they aren’t the best at marketing what they have to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to expand beyond the campus community,” said Kaplan. “Many people think it’s just for students, but we’re trying to break that barrier. The garden was started by students and is mostly run by students, but it’s open to everyone. We never turn away anyone if they want food or just want to walk around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students are also not aware of the garden's existence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem kind of hidden,” said Jones. “My favorite part of it is its ability to teach students. But it's also such a great place to create community, especially in a university that can be so competitive, and that is so big, that students can get lost in it. It provides a kind of safe haven for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA Garden\u003c/a> is always open on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. This summer, it’s also open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm.\u003cbr>\nIt is located on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ntZEaV\" target=\"_blank\">MAP\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what’s planted, it’s entirely up to the students; there are several varieties of apple trees, plum and fig trees, flowering plants and bushes like sunflowers and lavatera, succulents and native plants, and of course, plenty of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the garden gets some funding from student fees, SOGA is responsible for applying for grants to keep the garden running, and is also “meant to be the stewards of the garden, to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again,” said Kaplan. “We also make sure relations are good with the administration, and make sure they know what’s going on,” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For example, at one time students brought in chickens and goats without university approval – they are not allowed to raise animals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96864\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaplan emphasized that the garden allows students to connect to a more nontraditional education, which “allows them to build off the lecture-based education we receive and get their hands in the dirt with hands-on experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96861\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several classes are held inside the garden; Organic Gardening and Food Justice is one and Garden Leaders is another, which “teaches students how to do project management within the context of a garden,” said Jones, showing off several projects that were conceived of and brought to fruition by students recently; one was a greenhouse made entirely of reclaimed wood and glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s also what’s known as BUGI, or Berkeley Urban Gardening Internship, which connects students with other urban gardens in Berkeley, and teaches students how to manage a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96860\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while those who take care of it tend to have more than a passing interest in environmentalism, those who take classes in it run the gamut of the entire campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a class of 150 students this spring, their majors were “all over the map,” said Kaplan. “They had majors like math, business, French, everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only organic practices are used in the SOGA garden, the piece of land next door, called the \u003ca href=\"http://nature.berkeley.edu/oxford-facility\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Tract\u003c/a>, is used by professors for their various research projects and the students worry about non-organic pesticides drifting over the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the allies of the garden, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology\" target=\"_blank\">Agroecology\u003c/a> Professor Miguel Altieri, often tries to rent the space closest to the garden where he too gardens organically, but the students can’t control what happens on the other side of the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they sometimes put a sign outside offering the latest harvest to passersby, they don’t have a regular food giveaway because their output isn’t that regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Last year we partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ucberkeleyfoodpantry?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Food Pantry\u003c/a>, providing fresh produce for them to give away,” said Kaplan, noting that their grant money only provided the pantry with non-perishables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students often take the produce to share with their roommates, and community members are welcome to drop by when the garden is open, to see if anything has been freshly harvested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(During my visit, one woman dropped by to ask advice about why her apple tree wasn’t fruiting, and another man came by to see if he could score some kale or chard leaves.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many longtime neighbors barely know it’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most neighbors who come in are super excited to see it,” said Kaplan. “Most say they have to come by more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the students have led some programming for local schoolchildren, and offer workshops through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>, they admit that because of a lack of continuity in management, sometimes they aren’t the best at marketing what they have to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to expand beyond the campus community,” said Kaplan. “Many people think it’s just for students, but we’re trying to break that barrier. The garden was started by students and is mostly run by students, but it’s open to everyone. We never turn away anyone if they want food or just want to walk around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students are also not aware of the garden's existence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem kind of hidden,” said Jones. “My favorite part of it is its ability to teach students. But it's also such a great place to create community, especially in a university that can be so competitive, and that is so big, that students can get lost in it. It provides a kind of safe haven for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "GUIDE: Bay Area Restaurants On Film (For Hungry Movie Buffs)",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Doubtfire's Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21-400x171.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Doubtfire's Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville \u003ccite>(Screenshot: 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area may lack many things -- rain, summer, affordable housing -- but at least you can’t quibble with our place in cinema history. From the classics like \u003ci>Vertigo\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Bullitt\u003c/i> and \u003ci>The Birds \u003c/i>to more recent on-screen roles in movies like \u003ci>Zodiac\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Godzilla\u003c/i> and, uh, \u003ci>San Andreas\u003c/i>, it's entirely possible to while away a very pleasant weekend sightseeing this region’s many movie filming locations. And if you’re a movie fan who loves to eat: what could be better than to tour the Bay Area restaurants you've seen on screen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-800x349.png\" alt=\"Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, nowhere near San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-800x349.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-400x175.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19.png 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, nowhere near San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Disclaimer: a staggering proportion of interior scenes in Bay Area-set movies aren’t filmed here at all, but rather on a soundstage somewhere in Los Angeles. It may be standard movie practice, but it does mean that you can’t \u003ci>actually\u003c/i> have coffee in a place like the seeming 'classic San Francisco diner' where Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo come close to cracking the case in David Fincher’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/\" target=\"_blank\">Zodiac\u003c/a> \u003c/i>(above.) But take heart, and come with me on a tour of the Bay's food spots that really have been seen onscreen -- from the ones you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> still visit to some long-shuttered, dearly-departed relics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Still Playing: Four Bay Area Film Locations You \u003cem>Can\u003c/em> Still Eat In\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bridges, Danville\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Mrs Doubtfire\u003c/i> (1993)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-800x343.png\" alt=\"Robin Williams in character as the eponymous Mrs Doubtfire, dining at Bridges in Danville\" width=\"800\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-800x343.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-400x172.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1.png 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Williams in character as the eponymous Mrs. Doubtfire, dining at Bridges in Danville \u003ccite>(Screenshot: 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This pilgrimage may feel a little bittersweet with the passing of Mrs. Doubtfire’s iconic star Robin Williams last year, but it's worth the trip to Danville to relive the movie's climactic set piece -- Williams juggling two simultaneous dinner dates while alternately dressed as elderly alter-ego Mrs. Doubtfire. In real life alas, this upscale East Bay spot's menu does \u003ci>not\u003c/i> feature the infamous “hot jambalaya” that causes Williams to administer a life-saving Heimlich Maneuver to love rival Pierce Brosnan. (Although \u003ca href=\"http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/print/story/2011/01/07/mrs-doubtfire-lives-on-in-danville-memories\" target=\"_blank\">the Pleasanton Weekly reports\u003c/a> that despite forcing the restaurant to close for a whole month during filming back in 1993, the Doubtfire connection consequently doubled Bridges’ business, so it’s fair to guess that they’re used to fans of 90s comedy still dropping in and asking for this particular menu item.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 793px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png\" alt=\"Robin Williams in character as Mrs Doubtfire at the Claremont\" width=\"793\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png 793w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM-400x215.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Williams in character as Mrs Doubtfire at the Claremont \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tip: to complete your \u003ci>Mrs Doubtfire\u003c/i> pilgrimage, head north-west to Berkeley and grab a day-pass to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.claremontresort.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Claremont Spa and Hotel\u003c/a>, where the movie’s pool scenes were filmed. If you’re a guest at the hotel or a Club Member, you too can get tipsy at their poolside bar and subject handsome Irishmen to a “run-by fruiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tosca Cafe\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Basic Instinct\u003c/i> (1992)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-800x372.png\" alt=\"Michael Douglas, hanging out in character in San Francisco's Tosca Cafe \" width=\"800\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-800x372.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-400x186.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM.png 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Douglas, hanging out in character in San Francisco's Tosca Cafe \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy TriStar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alright, so nobody in 2015 is exactly clamoring for the \u003ci>Basic Instinct\u003c/i> San Francisco Bus Tour, and Bay Area locals are far more likely to snidely remind you of the geographical ludicrousness of this movie’s dramatic car chase north across the Golden Gate Bridge that suddenly cuts to Hwy 1... \u003ci>south\u003c/i> of San Francisco. But a visit to SF’s North Beach neighborhood is still made even more fun with a visit to the century-old \u003ca href=\"http://toscacafesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tosca Cafe\u003c/a>, which has a sort-of-starring role as the SFPD watering hole where detective Michael Douglas, rattled by \u003ci>that \u003c/i>notorious Sharon Stone interrogation, dramatically abandons his sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/15772616470/in/photolist-q2LMnh-oDgVKW-kacwXs-i4Vk11-fUheVV-dPwNhQ-dPro1S-9URwAi-9UUrGf-9UUozb-9Sru2u-9E8MZJ-9E8MQ9-8d9fRW-8d5Xxc-8d5Xwp-8d9fRd-8d9fQu-8d5XuH-7My9aW-9VntKT-9UUuou-9UUp8G-9SBFC9-9SyNhi-9SoB7R-9EqFdp-9EqF3e-9EtzD3-9EtzpL-9EqEkz-84ZZ5y-84ZZ5q-7My9d1-7My9bY-6EuGri-6yC9tE-6t3ExU-5433Xp-547esj-542Znz-542Zet-547e7S-547dZS-547dS7-547dqS-542Ybe-542XRg-547cBW-542TZ6\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96522 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The bar at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days Tosca’s almost certainly prefers to be known for its 2013 reinvention as a restaurant than for its brief appearance in a dubious classic of nineties erotica. But it’s still fun to spot its stenciled door and distinctive red booths onscreen, and let’s face it: given Tosca’s popularity, its growing number of awards and its invitation-only back room’s reputation as the place to spot visiting celebrities, Netflix might be the \u003ci>only\u003c/i> way you’ll see the inside of this North Beach institution for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Tides Restaurant, Bodega Bay\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>The Birds\u003c/i> (1960)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96551\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96551\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17.jpg\" alt=\"The Tides Restaurant, as featured in The Birds\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17-400x200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tides Restaurant, as featured in The Birds \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever noticed that small-town movie settings -- particularly ones subjected to strange things -- are often given fictionalized, generic names? Not Bodega Bay, the North Bay setting for Alfred Hitchcock’s \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> which is why visiting this windswept spot off Hwy 1 is such a fun experience for movie buffs. The town's \u003ca href=\"http://www.innatthetides.com/default.aspx?pg=tideswharf\" target=\"_blank\">Tides Wharf Restaurant\u003c/a> provided the backdrop for multiple moments, although the actual cafe scenes were filmed (you guessed it) hundreds of miles away on the Universal Studios lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96539\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The Tides complex in Bodega Bay under bird attack in The Birds\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-400x223.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tides complex in Bodega Bay under bird attack in The Birds \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the Tides complex has been remodeled several times since those days, it’s still a real kick for Hitchcock fans to experience its windswept, slightly dilapidated charms, especially since the buildings and parking lot were also used for the boat dock scenes and gas station scenes. (Bodega Bay was thankfully spared the famous “gas station explosion” in real life, which took place at the studio.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Ramp\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Blue Jasmine\u003c/i> (2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-800x341.png\" alt=\"Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins\" width=\"800\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-800x341.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-400x170.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM.png 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins drink at The Ramp in Blue Jasmine \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/woody-allen-san-francisco-making-656275\" target=\"_blank\">According to his cinematographer\u003c/a>, Woody Allen “always wanted to avoid the postcard sights” while filming his San Francisco-set \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334873/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jasmine\u003c/a>\u003c/i>. Chinatown scenes aside, this commitment to showing the “real” San Francisco results in a cameo for Mission Bay spot \u003ca href=\"http://www.theramprestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ramp\u003c/a>: the waterfront setting for an excruciating first meeting between a Martini-oiled Cate Blanchett and onscreen sister Sally Hawkins, her boyfriend and his dimwit pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96518\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-800x337.png\" alt=\"Caption\" width=\"800\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-800x337.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-400x169.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM.png 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ramp, as featured in Blue Jasmine \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’re meant to think Jasmine somewhat pompous when she proclaims the location “reminds me of the Mediterranean” but The Ramp really does boast legimately beautiful views of the bay, and you’re so close to the water on its foliage-filled deck that it’s easy to forget you’re within spitting distance of the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That's a Wrap: The Bay Area Foodie Film Locations That Are Long Gone\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ernie’s, San Francisco\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Vertigo\u003c/i> (1958)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96536\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96536\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress-800x448.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Novak entering Ernie's in a scene from Vertigo\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Novak entering Ernie's in a scene from Vertigo \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With its deep-red silk wallpaper and chandeliered opulence, Ernie’s just \u003ci>looks\u003c/i> like the cinematic ideal of a classic restaurant on-screen in \u003ci>Vertigo. \u003c/i>By all accounts this SF institution, which opened on Montgomery Street at the turn of the 20th century and finally closed in 1995, was quite the hot spot in its heyday but here’s the thing: the restaurant interior James Stewart and Kim Novak are dining in onscreen is actually a painstaking \u003cem>recreation\u003c/em> of Ernie’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-800x500.png\" alt=\"Ernie's as seen onscreen in Vertigo\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-800x500.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-400x250.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-1180x738.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-960x600.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie's as seen onscreen in Vertigo \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hitchcock wanted to have this authentic San Francisco location featured in his movie but when he discovered its size wouldn’t accommodate the panoramic shots he wanted, he just built a fake Ernie’s on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. According to local food writer T.J. Jacobberger’s \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/02/11/the-strory-behind-ernies-restaurant-and-alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo/\" target=\"_blank\">fantastic account\u003c/a>, Hitchcock’s dedication to authenticity also extended to flying Ernie’s proprietors Roland and Victor Gotti to L.A. to play the maitre d’ and bartender onscreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Coffee Cantata\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in \u003ci>Bullitt\u003c/i> (1968)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Steve McQueen hangs out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"602\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM.png 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM-400x221.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve McQueen hangs out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Warner Bros. Seven Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don’t you just want to hang out in \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/\" target=\"_blank\">Bullitt\u003c/a>\u003c/i>’s impossibly \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>-esque jazz cafe Coffee Cantata, where Steve McQueen drinks with Jacqueline Bisset? Well tough, because you can’t. This place in SF’s Cow Hollow neighborhood really \u003ci>was\u003c/i> called Coffee Cantata, but it’s long-gone, and in its place lies culinary hotspot Betelnut. There is actually still a spot called Cantata Coffee on Haight Street, but it’s no relation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96533 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-800x436.png\" alt=\"Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset hang out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-800x436.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-400x218.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-960x523.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM.png 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset dine out at Cantata Cafe in San Francisco -- but you can't \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Warner Bros. Seven Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While you’re watching this movie, look also for dearly departed North Beach cafe Enrico’s on Broadway, where Bullitt meets an informant: it’s now the site of the restaurant Naked Lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mel’s Drive-In\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>American Graffiti\u003c/i> (1973)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96529\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-800x339.jpg\" alt=\"Mel's Drive in, as featured in George Lucas' American Graffiti\" width=\"800\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-800x339.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-400x169.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-1440x610.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-1180x500.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-960x406.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel's Drive in, as featured in George Lucas' American Graffiti \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not even burger-happy film fans back in the 70s got to pay pilgrimage to this one. \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/aboutus/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Lucas used Mel’s Drive-In\u003c/a> on South Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco as a location for his Modesto-set coming-of-age tale \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/\" target=\"_blank\">American Graffiti\u003c/a>\u003c/em> just prior to its scheduled demolition, and by the time it was released, this particular drive-in was reduced to rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2416957021/in/photolist-4Fzx7M-GnyjN-iPMFuX-6oZ3A5-7WqAiC\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96531\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mel's Drive-In on Geary Street in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel's Drive-In on Geary Street in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Happily, if you really want to recreate scenes from the movie you can head to one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/hoursandlocations/sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\">many other Mel’s Drive-in incarnations\u003c/a> in San Francisco. They’re novelty pastiches now of course, but of all of them, \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/hoursandlocations/gearyboulevard.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Geary Street location\u003c/a> probably most resembles the Mel’s onscreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Burger Island (a.k.a “Acorn Cafe”)\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Sudden Impact\u003c/i> (1983)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png\" alt=\"Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) waits for his coffee at the 'Acorn Cafe' in San Francisco\" width=\"631\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png 631w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM-400x167.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) waits for his coffee at the 'Acorn Cafe' in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Go ahead… make my day” has become so iconic a pop culture reference that it’s easy to forget which scene this line is actually spoken in (or indeed, in what Dirty Harry movie.) But of course, it’s the climax to \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086383/\" target=\"_blank\">the cafe robbery \u003c/a>in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086383/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudden Impact\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, set in what was called the 'Acorn Cafe' in the movie, but actually filmed in an unremarkable corner spot called Burger Island in SOMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96527\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png\" alt=\"Sudden Impact's hold-up at the Acorn Cafe\" width=\"628\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png 628w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM-400x169.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sudden Impact's hold-up at the Acorn Cafe \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"http://laughingsquid.com/dirty-harry-sudden-impact-then-now-in-san-francisco-go-ahead-make-my-latte/\" target=\"_blank\">now a McDonald’s\u003c/a>, so technically you \u003ci>can\u003c/i> still go there and order a coffee like Harry... but that’s almost certainly where your homage should end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Bay Area foodie film locations have I missed? Let me know in the comments!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: A previous version of this post stated that fans of \u003c/em>The Birds\u003cem> could attend \u003ca href=\"http://www.innatthetides.com/default.aspx?pg=birds\" target=\"_blank\">a signing at the Tides Inn in August\u003c/a> by star Tippi Hedren. This signing actually took place in 2014, and the post has been updated to reflect that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Doubtfire's Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doubtfire21-400x171.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Doubtfire's Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville \u003ccite>(Screenshot: 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area may lack many things -- rain, summer, affordable housing -- but at least you can’t quibble with our place in cinema history. From the classics like \u003ci>Vertigo\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Bullitt\u003c/i> and \u003ci>The Birds \u003c/i>to more recent on-screen roles in movies like \u003ci>Zodiac\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Godzilla\u003c/i> and, uh, \u003ci>San Andreas\u003c/i>, it's entirely possible to while away a very pleasant weekend sightseeing this region’s many movie filming locations. And if you’re a movie fan who loves to eat: what could be better than to tour the Bay Area restaurants you've seen on screen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-800x349.png\" alt=\"Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, nowhere near San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-800x349.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19-400x175.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Picture-19.png 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, nowhere near San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Disclaimer: a staggering proportion of interior scenes in Bay Area-set movies aren’t filmed here at all, but rather on a soundstage somewhere in Los Angeles. It may be standard movie practice, but it does mean that you can’t \u003ci>actually\u003c/i> have coffee in a place like the seeming 'classic San Francisco diner' where Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo come close to cracking the case in David Fincher’s \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/\" target=\"_blank\">Zodiac\u003c/a> \u003c/i>(above.) But take heart, and come with me on a tour of the Bay's food spots that really have been seen onscreen -- from the ones you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> still visit to some long-shuttered, dearly-departed relics.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Still Playing: Four Bay Area Film Locations You \u003cem>Can\u003c/em> Still Eat In\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bridges, Danville\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Mrs Doubtfire\u003c/i> (1993)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96549\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-800x343.png\" alt=\"Robin Williams in character as the eponymous Mrs Doubtfire, dining at Bridges in Danville\" width=\"800\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-800x343.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1-400x172.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Screenshot-2015-06-01-at-9.55.12-PM1.png 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Williams in character as the eponymous Mrs. Doubtfire, dining at Bridges in Danville \u003ccite>(Screenshot: 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This pilgrimage may feel a little bittersweet with the passing of Mrs. Doubtfire’s iconic star Robin Williams last year, but it's worth the trip to Danville to relive the movie's climactic set piece -- Williams juggling two simultaneous dinner dates while alternately dressed as elderly alter-ego Mrs. Doubtfire. In real life alas, this upscale East Bay spot's menu does \u003ci>not\u003c/i> feature the infamous “hot jambalaya” that causes Williams to administer a life-saving Heimlich Maneuver to love rival Pierce Brosnan. (Although \u003ca href=\"http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/print/story/2011/01/07/mrs-doubtfire-lives-on-in-danville-memories\" target=\"_blank\">the Pleasanton Weekly reports\u003c/a> that despite forcing the restaurant to close for a whole month during filming back in 1993, the Doubtfire connection consequently doubled Bridges’ business, so it’s fair to guess that they’re used to fans of 90s comedy still dropping in and asking for this particular menu item.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 793px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png\" alt=\"Robin Williams in character as Mrs Doubtfire at the Claremont\" width=\"793\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM.png 793w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-30-at-8.17.32-PM-400x215.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Williams in character as Mrs Doubtfire at the Claremont \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy 20th Century Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tip: to complete your \u003ci>Mrs Doubtfire\u003c/i> pilgrimage, head north-west to Berkeley and grab a day-pass to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.claremontresort.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Claremont Spa and Hotel\u003c/a>, where the movie’s pool scenes were filmed. If you’re a guest at the hotel or a Club Member, you too can get tipsy at their poolside bar and subject handsome Irishmen to a “run-by fruiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tosca Cafe\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Basic Instinct\u003c/i> (1992)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-800x372.png\" alt=\"Michael Douglas, hanging out in character in San Francisco's Tosca Cafe \" width=\"800\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-800x372.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM-400x186.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-5.43.07-PM.png 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Douglas, hanging out in character in San Francisco's Tosca Cafe \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy TriStar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alright, so nobody in 2015 is exactly clamoring for the \u003ci>Basic Instinct\u003c/i> San Francisco Bus Tour, and Bay Area locals are far more likely to snidely remind you of the geographical ludicrousness of this movie’s dramatic car chase north across the Golden Gate Bridge that suddenly cuts to Hwy 1... \u003ci>south\u003c/i> of San Francisco. But a visit to SF’s North Beach neighborhood is still made even more fun with a visit to the century-old \u003ca href=\"http://toscacafesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tosca Cafe\u003c/a>, which has a sort-of-starring role as the SFPD watering hole where detective Michael Douglas, rattled by \u003ci>that \u003c/i>notorious Sharon Stone interrogation, dramatically abandons his sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/15772616470/in/photolist-q2LMnh-oDgVKW-kacwXs-i4Vk11-fUheVV-dPwNhQ-dPro1S-9URwAi-9UUrGf-9UUozb-9Sru2u-9E8MZJ-9E8MQ9-8d9fRW-8d5Xxc-8d5Xwp-8d9fRd-8d9fQu-8d5XuH-7My9aW-9VntKT-9UUuou-9UUp8G-9SBFC9-9SyNhi-9SoB7R-9EqFdp-9EqF3e-9EtzD3-9EtzpL-9EqEkz-84ZZ5y-84ZZ5q-7My9d1-7My9bY-6EuGri-6yC9tE-6t3ExU-5433Xp-547esj-542Znz-542Zet-547e7S-547dZS-547dS7-547dqS-542Ybe-542XRg-547cBW-542TZ6\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96522 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The bar at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/15772616470_b7ba555958_k-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days Tosca’s almost certainly prefers to be known for its 2013 reinvention as a restaurant than for its brief appearance in a dubious classic of nineties erotica. But it’s still fun to spot its stenciled door and distinctive red booths onscreen, and let’s face it: given Tosca’s popularity, its growing number of awards and its invitation-only back room’s reputation as the place to spot visiting celebrities, Netflix might be the \u003ci>only\u003c/i> way you’ll see the inside of this North Beach institution for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Tides Restaurant, Bodega Bay\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>The Birds\u003c/i> (1960)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96551\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96551\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17.jpg\" alt=\"The Tides Restaurant, as featured in The Birds\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/birds17-400x200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tides Restaurant, as featured in The Birds \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever noticed that small-town movie settings -- particularly ones subjected to strange things -- are often given fictionalized, generic names? Not Bodega Bay, the North Bay setting for Alfred Hitchcock’s \u003cem>The Birds\u003c/em> which is why visiting this windswept spot off Hwy 1 is such a fun experience for movie buffs. The town's \u003ca href=\"http://www.innatthetides.com/default.aspx?pg=tideswharf\" target=\"_blank\">Tides Wharf Restaurant\u003c/a> provided the backdrop for multiple moments, although the actual cafe scenes were filmed (you guessed it) hundreds of miles away on the Universal Studios lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96539\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"The Tides complex in Bodega Bay under bird attack in The Birds\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds-400x223.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Hitchcock-The-Birds.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tides complex in Bodega Bay under bird attack in The Birds \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the Tides complex has been remodeled several times since those days, it’s still a real kick for Hitchcock fans to experience its windswept, slightly dilapidated charms, especially since the buildings and parking lot were also used for the boat dock scenes and gas station scenes. (Bodega Bay was thankfully spared the famous “gas station explosion” in real life, which took place at the studio.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Ramp\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Blue Jasmine\u003c/i> (2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-800x341.png\" alt=\"Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins\" width=\"800\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-800x341.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM-400x170.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.01-PM.png 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins drink at The Ramp in Blue Jasmine \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/woody-allen-san-francisco-making-656275\" target=\"_blank\">According to his cinematographer\u003c/a>, Woody Allen “always wanted to avoid the postcard sights” while filming his San Francisco-set \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334873/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jasmine\u003c/a>\u003c/i>. Chinatown scenes aside, this commitment to showing the “real” San Francisco results in a cameo for Mission Bay spot \u003ca href=\"http://www.theramprestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ramp\u003c/a>: the waterfront setting for an excruciating first meeting between a Martini-oiled Cate Blanchett and onscreen sister Sally Hawkins, her boyfriend and his dimwit pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96518\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-800x337.png\" alt=\"Caption\" width=\"800\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-800x337.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM-400x169.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-25-at-6.56.49-PM.png 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ramp, as featured in Blue Jasmine \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Sony Pictures Classics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’re meant to think Jasmine somewhat pompous when she proclaims the location “reminds me of the Mediterranean” but The Ramp really does boast legimately beautiful views of the bay, and you’re so close to the water on its foliage-filled deck that it’s easy to forget you’re within spitting distance of the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>That's a Wrap: The Bay Area Foodie Film Locations That Are Long Gone\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ernie’s, San Francisco\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Vertigo\u003c/i> (1958)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96536\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96536\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress-800x448.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Novak entering Ernie's in a scene from Vertigo\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-blue-green-evening-dress-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Novak entering Ernie's in a scene from Vertigo \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With its deep-red silk wallpaper and chandeliered opulence, Ernie’s just \u003ci>looks\u003c/i> like the cinematic ideal of a classic restaurant on-screen in \u003ci>Vertigo. \u003c/i>By all accounts this SF institution, which opened on Montgomery Street at the turn of the 20th century and finally closed in 1995, was quite the hot spot in its heyday but here’s the thing: the restaurant interior James Stewart and Kim Novak are dining in onscreen is actually a painstaking \u003cem>recreation\u003c/em> of Ernie’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-800x500.png\" alt=\"Ernie's as seen onscreen in Vertigo\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-800x500.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-400x250.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-1180x738.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail-960x600.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/vertigo-archi-detail.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernie's as seen onscreen in Vertigo \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Paramount Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hitchcock wanted to have this authentic San Francisco location featured in his movie but when he discovered its size wouldn’t accommodate the panoramic shots he wanted, he just built a fake Ernie’s on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. According to local food writer T.J. Jacobberger’s \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/02/11/the-strory-behind-ernies-restaurant-and-alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo/\" target=\"_blank\">fantastic account\u003c/a>, Hitchcock’s dedication to authenticity also extended to flying Ernie’s proprietors Roland and Victor Gotti to L.A. to play the maitre d’ and bartender onscreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Coffee Cantata\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in \u003ci>Bullitt\u003c/i> (1968)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Steve McQueen hangs out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"602\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM.png 602w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.37.49-PM-400x221.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve McQueen hangs out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Warner Bros. Seven Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don’t you just want to hang out in \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/\" target=\"_blank\">Bullitt\u003c/a>\u003c/i>’s impossibly \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>-esque jazz cafe Coffee Cantata, where Steve McQueen drinks with Jacqueline Bisset? Well tough, because you can’t. This place in SF’s Cow Hollow neighborhood really \u003ci>was\u003c/i> called Coffee Cantata, but it’s long-gone, and in its place lies culinary hotspot Betelnut. There is actually still a spot called Cantata Coffee on Haight Street, but it’s no relation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96533 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-800x436.png\" alt=\"Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset hang out at the long-departed Cantata Cafe in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-800x436.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-400x218.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM-960x523.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.35.58-PM.png 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset dine out at Cantata Cafe in San Francisco -- but you can't \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Warner Bros. Seven Arts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While you’re watching this movie, look also for dearly departed North Beach cafe Enrico’s on Broadway, where Bullitt meets an informant: it’s now the site of the restaurant Naked Lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mel’s Drive-In\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>American Graffiti\u003c/i> (1973)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96529\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-800x339.jpg\" alt=\"Mel's Drive in, as featured in George Lucas' American Graffiti\" width=\"800\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-800x339.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-400x169.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-1440x610.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-1180x500.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/graffiti12-960x406.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel's Drive in, as featured in George Lucas' American Graffiti \u003ccite>(Screenshot: Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not even burger-happy film fans back in the 70s got to pay pilgrimage to this one. \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/aboutus/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Lucas used Mel’s Drive-In\u003c/a> on South Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco as a location for his Modesto-set coming-of-age tale \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/\" target=\"_blank\">American Graffiti\u003c/a>\u003c/em> just prior to its scheduled demolition, and by the time it was released, this particular drive-in was reduced to rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2416957021/in/photolist-4Fzx7M-GnyjN-iPMFuX-6oZ3A5-7WqAiC\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96531\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mel's Drive-In on Geary Street in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/2416957021_3073efbbee_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel's Drive-In on Geary Street in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Happily, if you really want to recreate scenes from the movie you can head to one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/hoursandlocations/sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\">many other Mel’s Drive-in incarnations\u003c/a> in San Francisco. They’re novelty pastiches now of course, but of all of them, \u003ca href=\"http://www.melsdrive-in.com/hoursandlocations/gearyboulevard.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Geary Street location\u003c/a> probably most resembles the Mel’s onscreen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Burger Island (a.k.a “Acorn Cafe”)\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nFeatured in: \u003ci>Sudden Impact\u003c/i> (1983)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png\" alt=\"Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) waits for his coffee at the 'Acorn Cafe' in San Francisco\" width=\"631\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM.png 631w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.16.23-PM-400x167.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) waits for his coffee at the 'Acorn Cafe' in San Francisco \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Go ahead… make my day” has become so iconic a pop culture reference that it’s easy to forget which scene this line is actually spoken in (or indeed, in what Dirty Harry movie.) But of course, it’s the climax to \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086383/\" target=\"_blank\">the cafe robbery \u003c/a>in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086383/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudden Impact\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, set in what was called the 'Acorn Cafe' in the movie, but actually filmed in an unremarkable corner spot called Burger Island in SOMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 628px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96527\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png\" alt=\"Sudden Impact's hold-up at the Acorn Cafe\" width=\"628\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM.png 628w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Screenshot-2015-05-31-at-8.15.19-PM-400x169.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sudden Impact's hold-up at the Acorn Cafe \u003ccite>(Screenshot courtesy Warner Bros.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"http://laughingsquid.com/dirty-harry-sudden-impact-then-now-in-san-francisco-go-ahead-make-my-latte/\" target=\"_blank\">now a McDonald’s\u003c/a>, so technically you \u003ci>can\u003c/i> still go there and order a coffee like Harry... but that’s almost certainly where your homage should end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Bay Area foodie film locations have I missed? Let me know in the comments!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I’m sitting cross-legged with a group of 15 people, passing around a bowl of mango slices for a taste of something sweet, then a tray of lemon wedges makes its way around the circle and everyone puckers their lips. Next comes spicy half moons of radish and finally tiny flutes of tangy pomegranate juice. I am attending an \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwith.com/host/8101/\" target=\"_blank\">EatWith Ayurvedic dinner\u003c/a> at the home of the host, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Britt Barrett\u003c/a>, an Ayurvedic chef and practitioner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\tFor the past four months I have been immersed in a yoga teacher training program at \u003ca href=\"http://sf.laughinglotus.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laughing Lotus\u003c/a>. Besides learning the yoga \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana\" target=\"_blank\">asanas\u003c/a>, breathing and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra\" target=\"_blank\">mantras\u003c/a> we have had instruction about the “sister science of yoga” know as \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda\" target=\"_blank\">Ayurveda\u003c/a>. This healing practice was new to me and I was hungry to learn more. I interviewed Britt to gain additional insight about the inner workings of Ayurveda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How would you describe Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old system of medicine that originated in India. “Ayus” means life and “Ved” means wisdom. So, it is basically how to utilize what we know about nature and apply it to our lives to create more balance and flow. And ultimately make ourselves more happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is based on [the idea] that we are the microcosm to the macrocosm of the universe. Everything that exists outside of our bodies, the water, the fire, the wind and the space also exist inside of our bodies. Each person has a unique constitution of doshas, or elemental vital bioenergies, known as Vata (air and space), Pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (earth and water). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920.jpg\" alt=\"Ayurveda means Life Wisdom\" width=\"1920\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96689\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-400x199.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-800x397.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-1440x715.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-1180x586.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-960x477.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayurveda means Life Wisdom \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did you personally get interested in Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2006, I was diagnosed with a chronic digestive disease called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccfa.org/what-are-crohns-and-colitis/what-is-ulcerative-colitis/\" target=\"_blank\">ulcerative colitis\u003c/a>. The doctors told me there was nothing I could do to heal from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, I moved back home with my parents, depressed, sick, and feeling hopeless. One night, I attended a lecture by \u003ca href=\"http://vedikaglobal.org/acharya-and-living-lineage/\" target=\"_blank\">Shunya Pratichi Mathur\u003c/a> about the ancient Indian healing practice called, Ayurveda. From the moment she started speaking, I was completely captivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I signed up for an Ayurvedic retreat with Shunya the following weekend, and ended up carpooling with 2 Ayurvedic doctors who would change the course of my life forever. While tears streamed down my face, one of the doctors looked into my eyes and told me with confidence that I would heal from my disease. He told me to get out a pen and a piece of paper and write down everything he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> After a few months of following their instructions, my condition had improved dramatically. I signed up for a one year self-healing course with Shunya at \u003ca href=\"http://vedikaglobal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vedika Global\u003c/a>, a small Ayurvedic college in Emeryville, California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After changing my diet and lifestyle, meditating, doing yoga, and learning how to cook foods that were balancing for my body... I healed. Not only did I heal from ulcerative colitis, but everything in my life improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was so impressed by my own recovery that I studied for two more years and became an Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counselor, so I would be able to share this knowledge with others. In 2012, I founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>, [my company]. My goal is to share the deeply rooted solid science of healing in a simple and digestible manner so that others may benefit from all of the gifts Ayurveda has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920.jpg\" alt=\"Food Doshas\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96691\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food Doshas \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>I understand that everybody has a unique combination of the three doshas, can you describe the characteristics of each one separately?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vata Dosha (air and space)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of dry, light, cool, rough, subtle and mobile. Vata controls all the movement in our body. Vata-dominant types tend to have a lighter and thinner frame. They have thin and dry skin. Vata-dominant people tend to be imaginative and enthusiastic. They are quick learners, but also quick to forget. Vata types tend to have active lifestyles and enjoy new experiences. When Vata types are out of balance they tend to be very in their head, which produces anxiety and a sense of ungroundedness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pitta Dosha (fire and water)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of oily, sharp, hot, light and liquid. Pitta controls all of the transformation and cellular regeneration in our body. Pitta is responsible for our warmth and activates digestion, metabolism and hormone regulation. Pitta dominant types tend to have a medium build. Their skin tends to flush easily and can be more sensitive than others. People who are Pitta dominant tend to be intellectual and ambitious, but when they are out of balance, anger, jealously and rage can take over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kapha Dosha (earth and water)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of heavy, slow, steady, solid, cold, soft and oily. Kapha is responsible for our physical form. Kapha dominant people tend to have larger, well-built frames, and have a tendency to over-nourish. Their skin is soft, thick and moist. They move and talk at a slow and steady pace, and their sleep is long and deep. Kapha dominant people tend to be very steady, loyal and compassionate. They are not easily irritated, and naturally quite loveable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920.jpg\" alt=\"Doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha\" width=\"1920\" height=\"727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-400x151.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-800x303.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-1440x545.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-1180x447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-960x364.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What is the basic principal of healing in Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The whole premise of healing is that “like increases like” and “opposites balance.” For example, if you already have a pitta imbalance and have excess heat in your body, if you consume foods that are pitta-increasing in nature, like chili peppers, your disease is going to get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920.jpg\" alt=\"Everyone has a unique combination of all 3 doshas.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96692\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-1440x879.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-960x586.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone has a unique combination of all 3 doshas. \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003col>\n\u003ch3>What are some common misconceptions about Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cli>You have to eat all Indian food to live an Ayurvedic lifestyle. Actually, we can use whatever is growing here as long as the qualities of those food are aligned with the qualities we are supposed to be consuming in that season.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ayurveda is only for Indians. The knowledge is a universal science and can benefit every living being.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That all Ayurvedic people are vegetarian. Ayurveda uses meat medicinally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That people believe they are only one dosha. It is easy to over-simplify Ayurveda and misdiagnose yourself. It's best to see an experienced practitioner who can tell you more accurate and clinical information about doshas.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch3>If you had one nugget of advice from your Ayurvedic journey what would that be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start cultivating awareness around what you eat and how it makes you feel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1374px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips.jpg\" alt=\"10 Tips For Healthy Digestion: Do's and Don'ts\" width=\"1374\" height=\"3084\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips.jpg 1374w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-400x898.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-800x1796.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-1180x2649.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-960x2155.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1374px) 100vw, 1374px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10 Tips For Healthy Digestion: Do's and Don'ts \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Information:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>If you are interested in experiencing Ayurvedic tastes first hand you can attend one of Britt’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwith.com/host/8101/\" target=\"_blank\">EatWith dinners\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Britt Barrett's website for her practice is: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ayurvedadaily\" target=\"_blank\">@ayurvedadaily\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/everydayayurveda?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I’m sitting cross-legged with a group of 15 people, passing around a bowl of mango slices for a taste of something sweet, then a tray of lemon wedges makes its way around the circle and everyone puckers their lips. Next comes spicy half moons of radish and finally tiny flutes of tangy pomegranate juice. I am attending an \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwith.com/host/8101/\" target=\"_blank\">EatWith Ayurvedic dinner\u003c/a> at the home of the host, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Britt Barrett\u003c/a>, an Ayurvedic chef and practitioner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\tFor the past four months I have been immersed in a yoga teacher training program at \u003ca href=\"http://sf.laughinglotus.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laughing Lotus\u003c/a>. Besides learning the yoga \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana\" target=\"_blank\">asanas\u003c/a>, breathing and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra\" target=\"_blank\">mantras\u003c/a> we have had instruction about the “sister science of yoga” know as \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda\" target=\"_blank\">Ayurveda\u003c/a>. This healing practice was new to me and I was hungry to learn more. I interviewed Britt to gain additional insight about the inner workings of Ayurveda.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How would you describe Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ayurveda is a 5,000 year old system of medicine that originated in India. “Ayus” means life and “Ved” means wisdom. So, it is basically how to utilize what we know about nature and apply it to our lives to create more balance and flow. And ultimately make ourselves more happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is based on [the idea] that we are the microcosm to the macrocosm of the universe. Everything that exists outside of our bodies, the water, the fire, the wind and the space also exist inside of our bodies. Each person has a unique constitution of doshas, or elemental vital bioenergies, known as Vata (air and space), Pitta (fire and water), and Kapha (earth and water). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920.jpg\" alt=\"Ayurveda means Life Wisdom\" width=\"1920\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96689\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-400x199.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-800x397.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-1440x715.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-1180x586.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ayurvedameans1920-960x477.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayurveda means Life Wisdom \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>How did you personally get interested in Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2006, I was diagnosed with a chronic digestive disease called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccfa.org/what-are-crohns-and-colitis/what-is-ulcerative-colitis/\" target=\"_blank\">ulcerative colitis\u003c/a>. The doctors told me there was nothing I could do to heal from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, I moved back home with my parents, depressed, sick, and feeling hopeless. One night, I attended a lecture by \u003ca href=\"http://vedikaglobal.org/acharya-and-living-lineage/\" target=\"_blank\">Shunya Pratichi Mathur\u003c/a> about the ancient Indian healing practice called, Ayurveda. From the moment she started speaking, I was completely captivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I signed up for an Ayurvedic retreat with Shunya the following weekend, and ended up carpooling with 2 Ayurvedic doctors who would change the course of my life forever. While tears streamed down my face, one of the doctors looked into my eyes and told me with confidence that I would heal from my disease. He told me to get out a pen and a piece of paper and write down everything he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> After a few months of following their instructions, my condition had improved dramatically. I signed up for a one year self-healing course with Shunya at \u003ca href=\"http://vedikaglobal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vedika Global\u003c/a>, a small Ayurvedic college in Emeryville, California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After changing my diet and lifestyle, meditating, doing yoga, and learning how to cook foods that were balancing for my body... I healed. Not only did I heal from ulcerative colitis, but everything in my life improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was so impressed by my own recovery that I studied for two more years and became an Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counselor, so I would be able to share this knowledge with others. In 2012, I founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>, [my company]. My goal is to share the deeply rooted solid science of healing in a simple and digestible manner so that others may benefit from all of the gifts Ayurveda has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920.jpg\" alt=\"Food Doshas\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96691\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/fooddoshas1920-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food Doshas \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>I understand that everybody has a unique combination of the three doshas, can you describe the characteristics of each one separately?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vata Dosha (air and space)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of dry, light, cool, rough, subtle and mobile. Vata controls all the movement in our body. Vata-dominant types tend to have a lighter and thinner frame. They have thin and dry skin. Vata-dominant people tend to be imaginative and enthusiastic. They are quick learners, but also quick to forget. Vata types tend to have active lifestyles and enjoy new experiences. When Vata types are out of balance they tend to be very in their head, which produces anxiety and a sense of ungroundedness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pitta Dosha (fire and water)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of oily, sharp, hot, light and liquid. Pitta controls all of the transformation and cellular regeneration in our body. Pitta is responsible for our warmth and activates digestion, metabolism and hormone regulation. Pitta dominant types tend to have a medium build. Their skin tends to flush easily and can be more sensitive than others. People who are Pitta dominant tend to be intellectual and ambitious, but when they are out of balance, anger, jealously and rage can take over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kapha Dosha (earth and water)\u003c/strong> has the qualities of heavy, slow, steady, solid, cold, soft and oily. Kapha is responsible for our physical form. Kapha dominant people tend to have larger, well-built frames, and have a tendency to over-nourish. Their skin is soft, thick and moist. They move and talk at a slow and steady pace, and their sleep is long and deep. Kapha dominant people tend to be very steady, loyal and compassionate. They are not easily irritated, and naturally quite loveable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920.jpg\" alt=\"Doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha\" width=\"1920\" height=\"727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-400x151.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-800x303.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-1440x545.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-1180x447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/doshas1920-960x364.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What is the basic principal of healing in Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The whole premise of healing is that “like increases like” and “opposites balance.” For example, if you already have a pitta imbalance and have excess heat in your body, if you consume foods that are pitta-increasing in nature, like chili peppers, your disease is going to get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920.jpg\" alt=\"Everyone has a unique combination of all 3 doshas.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96692\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-1440x879.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/imbalances1920-960x586.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone has a unique combination of all 3 doshas. \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003col>\n\u003ch3>What are some common misconceptions about Ayurveda?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cli>You have to eat all Indian food to live an Ayurvedic lifestyle. Actually, we can use whatever is growing here as long as the qualities of those food are aligned with the qualities we are supposed to be consuming in that season.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ayurveda is only for Indians. The knowledge is a universal science and can benefit every living being.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That all Ayurvedic people are vegetarian. Ayurveda uses meat medicinally.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That people believe they are only one dosha. It is easy to over-simplify Ayurveda and misdiagnose yourself. It's best to see an experienced practitioner who can tell you more accurate and clinical information about doshas.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003ch3>If you had one nugget of advice from your Ayurvedic journey what would that be?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start cultivating awareness around what you eat and how it makes you feel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1374px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips.jpg\" alt=\"10 Tips For Healthy Digestion: Do's and Don'ts\" width=\"1374\" height=\"3084\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips.jpg 1374w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-400x898.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-800x1796.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-1180x2649.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/10tips-960x2155.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1374px) 100vw, 1374px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10 Tips For Healthy Digestion: Do's and Don'ts \u003ccite>(Lila Volkas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Information:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>If you are interested in experiencing Ayurvedic tastes first hand you can attend one of Britt’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwith.com/host/8101/\" target=\"_blank\">EatWith dinners\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Britt Barrett's website for her practice is: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyayurveda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Twitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ayurvedadaily\" target=\"_blank\">@ayurvedadaily\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/everydayayurveda?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Ayurveda\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gushing over the Meyer lemons growing in his backyard was one of the first signs that Mark Bittman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/dining/mark-bittman-revels-in-california-produce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling for California\u003c/a>. The celebrated food writer and New York Times columnist began what was supposed to be a semester-long stint as a visiting fellow at the \u003ca href=\"http://food.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Food Institute\u003c/a> in January 2015. But Bittman has decided to stay on for another academic year, at least. Besides continuing to lecture for the Food Institute, this fall he’ll have an official appointment at Berkeley’s Journalism School. He may also have an opportunity to create more programs for his new online video series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-FXGBB36Yd4xOFWSKc0Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, premiering today, June 8, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://markbittman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bittman\u003c/a> came up with the idea for the video series as a platform for doing what he does in most of his writing these days: plunge headlong into a vast array of food-related issues and decipher them for the public. Whether exploring injustices and innovations or unpacking science and policy, he generally does it with equal frankness and gusto. One of the most outspoken advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/11/michael_pollan_and_mark_bittman_s_food_policy_proposal_at_the_stone_barns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overhauling many of America’s food systems\u003c/a> (I’ve heard him referred to as the east coast’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/speakers/michael_pollan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a>), Bittman’s rants can engender total devotion or harsh critique. Although being an on-camera host is not his usual medium, Bittman’s casual vibe and quintessential New York voice might play just as well on video as his words do on the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each 4-7 minute episode, Bittman introduces viewers to different researchers, entrepreneurs, educators and thinkers from the University of California (UC) network who are working to better understand and improve the food we eat and the systems that support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to find people who are doing interesting things and talk to them,” says Bittman. \"I thought we could make their work more easily and widely understood. And I think we succeeded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1PvH4B1Vo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a good way for Bittman to get to know his new home state, and probably helped tip the scales in favor of extending his stay in the Bay Area. “There’s just nothing I’d rather do than travel around California looking at food-related stuff,” says Bittman. “There are a million stories out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>, Bittman traipses up and down the state in search of those stories. In each episode he takes viewers behind-the-scenes at a different location; like a Chinese restaurant in L.A. where he discusses cultural traditions and worker wage issues, and the test gardens and \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farms of UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>, where cutting edge research into sustainable agriculture practices is underway. “There’s this amazing 33-acre farm on an academic campus – it’s unheard of,” says Bittman, shaking his head in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he describes some of the episodes as heartrending -- like one that explores how pesticides affect neonatal health in Salinas Valley -- the series kicks off on a lighter note as Bittman heads out on a foraging mission with UC Berkeley ethnobotanist Tom Carlson and statistician Philip Stark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/F8BLU3iaLgM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went out with these guys in west Oakland in a neighborhood that doesn’t look like a park. There was stuff all over the place that you could eat,” Bittman recalls. “So you can imagine that in greener areas, if you knew what you were doing and carried a knapsack and a plastic bag, you’d never buy salad again. I’ll tell you that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a weed hobby (think dandelions and calendula) for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/02/05/snacking-in-between-sidewalks-mapping-abundance-of-wild-edibles-in-the-bay-areas-food-deserts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlson and Stark\u003c/a>, has now morphed into \u003ca href=\"http://forage.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an enthusiastic mission\u003c/a> to make wild edibles a more practical, popular and profitable food source. Their current work includes testing urban weeds for concentrations of heavy metals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/flowers-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edible weeds found around Oakland: Calendula, vetch and plantago. \u003ccite>(Kristen Rasmussen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Foraging is nothing new, but it’s a fantastic opportunity,” says Bittman. “We talked to some farmers who understand that weeds are not necessarily the enemy—that they could be harvested and sold, or used to re-nutrify the soil. Look at the irony; you are using herbicides to kill something that you could be eating. You’re depriving yourself of free food and spreading the use of herbicides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another episode, Bittman travels to Hog Island in western Marin County to meet with a \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/research/faculty/tessa-hill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Hill\u003c/a> of UC Davis, who is studying the impacts of ocean acidification on oysters. As CO2 levels rise, it causes the ocean’s pH levels to become increasingly acidic. “Because of the acidity, the oyster shells get thinner, grow more slowly and are more prone to early death,” Bittman explains. Although the research may yield some clues about how \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local oyster farmers\u003c/a> might employ new management strategies to help deal with the acidity, Bittman says he simply hopes to draw the public’s attention to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1201px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \" width=\"1201\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg 1201w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the University of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of the more solution-based programs, Bittman hits the lunch tables at a public school in San Francisco. Here, researchers are studying the effects of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdfuturedining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district-wide initiatives\u003c/a> aimed at redesigning the school meal experience and making it more nutritious. “They’re trying to offer more choices, nicer eating spaces, outdoor and portable spaces and even grab-and-go stuff. They are just going to look at every option until they come up with a better system that they can afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, one subject the series’ producers didn’t manage to cover in these ten episodes is one that’s most top of mind in California: the drought. Bittman says it’s on his list for the next season of programs (if there is a next season). In the meantime, you can get his take on the drought and allay any guilt you may have about eating almonds by reading one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/mark-bittman-fear-of-almonds.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his recent New York Times posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read many of his other editorials about GMOs, diets, livestock welfare, farmworker wages and other hot topics in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246578/a-bone-to-pick-by-mark-bittman-the-new-york-times-bestselling-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bone to Pick\u003c/a>,” a recently released compilation of Bittman’s popular New York Times columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em> series is regionally focused, the stories being covered seem relevant to viewers across America. As Bittman pointed out in that same editorial mentioned above, “…because such a significant fraction of our food is produced in California, problems for California agriculture are problems for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Bittman’s life will be touched more directly and visibly by problems such as drought as he settles in for another year in the sun-scorched state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there was anything he has been missing about New York in terms of the food. My question was met with a resounding “Nah.” After a brief pause he added, “Maybe a couple of restaurants. Maybe the excitement of having new foods appear in the summertime. But I ate better this winter in Berkeley than I do most summers in New York. It’s really just paradise here when it comes to food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to have no qualms about trading the Big Apple for a Meyer lemon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Join Mark Bittman for a live Twitter chat on June 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM PST.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Bittman Twitter Chat\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-twitter-chat-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a good way for Bittman to get to know his new home state, and probably helped tip the scales in favor of extending his stay in the Bay Area. “There’s just nothing I’d rather do than travel around California looking at food-related stuff,” says Bittman. “There are a million stories out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em>, Bittman traipses up and down the state in search of those stories. In each episode he takes viewers behind-the-scenes at a different location; like a Chinese restaurant in L.A. where he discusses cultural traditions and worker wage issues, and the test gardens and \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/about/facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farms of UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>, where cutting edge research into sustainable agriculture practices is underway. “There’s this amazing 33-acre farm on an academic campus – it’s unheard of,” says Bittman, shaking his head in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he describes some of the episodes as heartrending -- like one that explores how pesticides affect neonatal health in Salinas Valley -- the series kicks off on a lighter note as Bittman heads out on a foraging mission with UC Berkeley ethnobotanist Tom Carlson and statistician Philip Stark.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/F8BLU3iaLgM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/F8BLU3iaLgM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We went out with these guys in west Oakland in a neighborhood that doesn’t look like a park. There was stuff all over the place that you could eat,” Bittman recalls. “So you can imagine that in greener areas, if you knew what you were doing and carried a knapsack and a plastic bag, you’d never buy salad again. I’ll tell you that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What began as a weed hobby (think dandelions and calendula) for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/02/05/snacking-in-between-sidewalks-mapping-abundance-of-wild-edibles-in-the-bay-areas-food-deserts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlson and Stark\u003c/a>, has now morphed into \u003ca href=\"http://forage.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an enthusiastic mission\u003c/a> to make wild edibles a more practical, popular and profitable food source. 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Look at the irony; you are using herbicides to kill something that you could be eating. You’re depriving yourself of free food and spreading the use of herbicides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another episode, Bittman travels to Hog Island in western Marin County to meet with a \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/research/faculty/tessa-hill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tessa Hill\u003c/a> of UC Davis, who is studying the impacts of ocean acidification on oysters. As CO2 levels rise, it causes the ocean’s pH levels to become increasingly acidic. “Because of the acidity, the oyster shells get thinner, grow more slowly and are more prone to early death,” Bittman explains. Although the research may yield some clues about how \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local oyster farmers\u003c/a> might employ new management strategies to help deal with the acidity, Bittman says he simply hopes to draw the public’s attention to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1201px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg\" alt=\"Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \" width=\"1201\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat.jpg 1201w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/bittman-boat-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bittman discusses oysters with UC Davis' Tessa Hill in Marshall, CA. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the University of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of the more solution-based programs, Bittman hits the lunch tables at a public school in San Francisco. Here, researchers are studying the effects of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusdfuturedining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">district-wide initiatives\u003c/a> aimed at redesigning the school meal experience and making it more nutritious. “They’re trying to offer more choices, nicer eating spaces, outdoor and portable spaces and even grab-and-go stuff. They are just going to look at every option until they come up with a better system that they can afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprisingly, one subject the series’ producers didn’t manage to cover in these ten episodes is one that’s most top of mind in California: the drought. Bittman says it’s on his list for the next season of programs (if there is a next season). In the meantime, you can get his take on the drought and allay any guilt you may have about eating almonds by reading one of\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/mark-bittman-fear-of-almonds.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his recent New York Times posts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read many of his other editorials about GMOs, diets, livestock welfare, farmworker wages and other hot topics in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246578/a-bone-to-pick-by-mark-bittman-the-new-york-times-bestselling-author/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bone to Pick\u003c/a>,” a recently released compilation of Bittman’s popular New York Times columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the \u003cem>California Matters\u003c/em> series is regionally focused, the stories being covered seem relevant to viewers across America. As Bittman pointed out in that same editorial mentioned above, “…because such a significant fraction of our food is produced in California, problems for California agriculture are problems for all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Bittman’s life will be touched more directly and visibly by problems such as drought as he settles in for another year in the sun-scorched state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if there was anything he has been missing about New York in terms of the food. My question was met with a resounding “Nah.” After a brief pause he added, “Maybe a couple of restaurants. Maybe the excitement of having new foods appear in the summertime. But I ate better this winter in Berkeley than I do most summers in New York. It’s really just paradise here when it comes to food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to have no qualms about trading the Big Apple for a Meyer lemon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In 1951 when Sunset moved from San Francisco to the south Bay, people all over the United States were leaving cities for the wide-open suburbs. Now the trend has reversed and Westerners — young people starting careers and empty-nesters alike — are opting to live where we can walk, bike or take public transit to work and experience new restaurants, shopping and culture out our front doors. We’ve documented this migration all over the West, from Denver to Portland, Seattle to San Francisco, Phoenix to LA. And now we’re part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its new flagship location in Oakland, Sunset will have a continuous presence in California wine country at Cornerstone, a public garden, event and retail space in Sonoma. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities like Oakland are at the heart of some of the most exciting trends and innovations coming out of the West, and we’re thrilled to be where the action is,” Peggy Northrop, Editor-in-Chief of Sunset, said in a press release. “We’re especially looking forward to moving to such a vibrant neighborhood, where readers will have the chance to interact with the Sunset brand each and every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://westphoria.sunset.com/2015/06/02/sunset-magazine-moving-to-oakland/#sthash.7SZudXbX.dpuf\">letter about the move posted on the Sunset website\u003c/a> Northrop wrote: “Though we will all miss the gorgeous campus and gardens we have called home for so long, the move is consistent with Sunset’s longtime mission to reflect our readers’ lives and aspirations. In 1951 when Sunset moved from San Francisco to the south Bay, people all over the United States were leaving cities for the wide-open suburbs. Now the trend has reversed and Westerners — young people starting careers and empty-nesters alike — are opting to live where we can walk, bike or take public transit to work and experience new restaurants, shopping and culture out our front doors. We’ve documented this migration all over the West, from Denver to Portland, Seattle to San Francisco, Phoenix to LA. And now we’re part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its new flagship location in Oakland, Sunset will have a continuous presence in California wine country at Cornerstone, a public garden, event and retail space in Sonoma. Cornerstone and Sunset have formed a strategic partnership that will entail hosting Sunset’s main test garden, an outdoor kitchen and on-site programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-96574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ET_6111_st-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"A Sunset Celebration weekend at the company’s Menlo Park campus. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ET_6111_st-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/ET_6111_st-720x480-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sunset Celebration weekend at the company’s Menlo Park campus. \u003ccite>(Sunset)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of the company’s move from a bucolic location on the Peninsula to a bustling urban site, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in the release: “The addition of Sunset is a coup for Jack London Square, our burgeoning waterfront center, and underscores just how attractive the Oakland market is right now for emerging and established companies eager to grow and thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset, whose interests span books and magazines, events and experiences, will hold its \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/marketplace/sunset-celebration-weekend-2015\">final, annual Sunset Celebration Weekend\u003c/a> this weekend, \u003cspan>June 6 to 7\u003c/span>, at its Menlo Park headquarters at 80 Willow Road.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On March 2, the city of Oakland raised its minimum wage by 36%. At $12.25 per hour, the new wage is the highest in the country — for now. San Francisco matched this wage on May 1, and Emeryville will leapfrog both cities in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage increase was voted into law last November as a part of Measure FF. Over 80% of Oakland residents supported the measure. And while all Oakland businesses are now required to abide by the new wage, conversations about its benefits and repercussions have been most active in the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants have notoriously small operational budget margins, and are, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/saru-jayaraman/\" target=\"_blank\">Saru Jayaraman\u003c/a>, the co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/restaurant-opportunities-centers-united/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant Opportunity Centers United\u003c/a> (ROC-United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, one of the largest employers of low-wage workers in the United States. Jayaraman reports that seven out of the ten lowest paying jobs in the country are restaurant jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Saru Jayaraman, seen here speaking with Berkeleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel at Uncharted 2014, says in the long run wage increases in the restaurant field will be better for business.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saru Jayaraman, seen here speaking with Berkeleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel at Uncharted 2014, says in the long run wage increases in the restaurant field will be better for business. \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California does, however, have some protections for restaurant workers. Service staff is required to make at least the state minimum wage; they are not permitted to be paid a “tipped minimum” of $2.13 per hour as they are in other states. Still, the state’s minimum wage of $9 per hour doesn’t go very far in the Bay Area’s booming economy. (Indeed, according to \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/0600153000\" target=\"_blank\">MIT’s Living Wage Calculator\u003c/a>, the minimum wage needed to support a single adult in Oakland is over $11; one needs to make over double that number to support even a small family.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been an ongoing problem in the restaurant industry where many of our employees have trouble paying the bills. It is bad for the industry and bad for the community,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jay-porter/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Porter\u003c/a>, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/the-half-orange/\" target=\"_blank\">The Half Orange\u003c/a> in Fruitvale and upcoming \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/salsipuedes/\" target=\"_blank\">Salsipuedes\u003c/a> in North Oakland. “When one of your most significant industries as a whole employs people at a sub-living wage, that’s not good for the community. That’s money that’s not circulating in the economy. It also means that there’s a really high turnover. It means that a lot of people are having to work 70 to 80 hours a week to pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure FF was an attempt to change that problem. The measure not only set Oakland’s minimum wage at $12.25 per hour, but it also added mandatory paid sick leave and provided means for retaliation should employers not follow the new rules. Oakland’s new wage is now also tied to the Consumer Price Index, and it will be allowed to rise each year on January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners have adapted to the wage increase in various ways. Most, like Porter, have simply increased prices to account for the higher labor costs. Other restaurants, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/homestead/\" target=\"_blank\">Homestead,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/dopo/\" target=\"_blank\">Dopo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/camino/\" target=\"_blank\">Camino\u003c/a> in Oakland, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/comal/\" target=\"_blank\">Comal\u003c/a> in Berkeley, have used this wage increase to re-format their entire wage structure. All four have eliminated tipping and have incorporated the average tip amount (around 20% of the total bill) to the line item charge for each dish on their menus. Still others, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/bocanova/\" target=\"_blank\">Bocanova\u003c/a> in Jack London Square, have added a mandatory service charge to their bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These adaptations are part of a larger conversation. Last month saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/fight-for-15/\" target=\"_blank\">local and national protests\u003c/a> for a $15 minimum wage. Measure FF has prompted many restaurants to reconsider tipping and fair pay between employees. Small, non-English speaking food businesses are closing, or considering it. Emeryville is considering an historically large wage bump — from $9 per hour to over $14. And everyone, especially restaurant workers, are reconsidering what, exactly, a fair wage means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Porter and Katie Mayfield own The Half Orange and forthcoming Salsipuedes. Porter has been an advocate for disrupting the traditional tipping systems in restaurants. \" width=\"720\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Porter and Katie Mayfield own The Half Orange and forthcoming Salsipuedes. Porter has been an advocate for disrupting the traditional tipping systems in restaurants. \u003ccite>(Jay Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Increases better for business?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/institute-for-research-on-labor-and-employment/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\u003c/a> (IRLE) prepared a policy brief on the Oakland measure last June. The research suggested that restaurants and retail businesses would likely be most affected by the increase, but restaurants would only need to raise their prices by 2.5%. Authors Michael Reich, Ken Jacobs, Annette Berndardt and Ian Perry suggested that reduced employee turnover costs and improved work performance would make up for increased labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the restaurant owners we have spoken to have all raised their prices much more than 2.5%. Chris Hillyard of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/farleys-east/\" target=\"_blank\">Farley’s\u003c/a> coffee shops in Uptown and in Emeryville raised his prices between 5% and 15%, depending on the item. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/sal-bednarz/\" target=\"_blank\">Sal Bednarz\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/actual-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Actual Café\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/victory-burger/\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Burger\u003c/a> gave most of his items at 9% bump. Porter’s prices went up around 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is clear that the researchers missed some of the important parts of the picture. They talked about a restaurant price increase of 3%. That still may be the average price increase, but for the small restaurants that I’m talking to, none of us can do it for 3%, none of us,” said Bednarz. “A lot of us are doing double digit price increases, much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillyard noted labor costs are more complicated than the direct wage cost. “There are also sick days. Plus workers compensation goes up because your payroll costs have gone up,” he said. Indeed, the IRLE report didn’t include the increased costs of paid sick leave. However, Reich noted in an email that Oakland area restaurant prices have been increasing around 2.4% per year, which makes these bumps part of a general trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these price increases, most Oakland restaurants are still doing what they do best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our revenue is up a bit, and our customer traffic is close to what it was before we made the changes. We’ve had a lot of customers who have noticed the price increases. Some already understood why [they were] going up, some didn’t,” said Bednarz. “My crew was well equipped to educate them and had good conversations across the counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bednarz did report that his morning coffee business has been a bit slower than usual. “Who knows what that is. It could be something like our customers are driving a different direction to get to work or that schools in the neighborhood have different hours this week. In a few weeks it may come back, but it may not.” Porter and Hillyard also report fairly consistent business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says that in the long run, the wage increase will be better for business. “The economy is going to do better. I think we’re going to see better restaurants, better service, better food. I think we’re going to see actually faster job growth. That’s what we’ve seen everywhere else every time the wage has gone up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another IRLE overview report on local minimum wage laws said that wage increases do increase the spending power of employees and that they do typically spend that extra money. The authors did note, however, that research still needs to be done to estimate the economic stimulus created by this new spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps just as important as spending power is employee morale. “You’re going to have healthier workers because they have paid sick days. You’re going to have happier workers because they’re better paid. You’re going to have better service. It’s going to be good for everybody,” said Jayaraman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as Bednarz explained, these changes will not happen overnight. His employees received their first increased pay check three weeks after restaurants instated higher prices. “That’s a number of weeks of lag,” he said. “The folks who are coming to a place like mine in the morning are coming up for their morning coffee, and they’re often daily customers. A small increase in what they’re paying, that increases five times. It accumulates. I’m not saying that these people don’t care about what we’re doing, but they may not be able to afford to care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwiches at Victory Burger have gone up in price by around 9% after the wage increase went into effect.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandwiches at Victory Burger have gone up in price by around 9% after the wage increase went into effect. \u003ccite>(Emilie Raguso)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Front of house or back of the house? Unequal pay\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Historically, there have been three different wage structures in place in restaurants. Employees in the “back of the house” — cooks, dishwashers, bussers — make a single hourly wage without tips. Those in the “front of the house” — servers and hosts — make an hourly minimum plus tips on their bills. Managers usually get a salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California doesn’t allow for a tipped minimum, front-of-house workers typically take home far more income than the cooks and dishwashers in the back of the house — even if the back-of-the-house workers are making more than the minimum wage. This means that, even if all employees get a wage increase, the front of house still stands to bring home substantially more income. If prices increase, tips will increase as well, further increasing take-home pay. (Some restaurant owners we spoke to, like Porter, gave everyone a raise, while others, like Bednarz, raised wages only for those making below $12.25, with a few exceptions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a high-end restaurant where diners are tipping 20% on a $100 tab, the profits for servers can be very high. “I understand that for servers in places that they’re still getting tipped, they’re making a killing,” said Tim Veatch, a cook at Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a fairly common practice for restaurants to “pool” tips at the end of service and divide up the total among employees. Typically under this system, servers take home a higher proportion of the tip, while back-of-the-house employees get a smaller percentage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s labor code makes this practice a little more complicated. It does allow for tip pooling, but the original legislation says that tips must go to those who are in a “direct line of service.” However, in 2009, the California Supreme Court ruled on several cases that challenged the wording of the legislation. In Etheridge v. Reins International, the court held that all employees in the “chain of service” are eligible to receive a share of tips, which included dishwashers and other members of the kitchen staff. In Budrow v. Dave & Busters, the court expanded that idea to say that the decision regarding who can participate in the tip pool can be “based on a reasonable assessment of the patron’s intentions.” The differences between a “direct line of” and “chain of” service aren’t exactly clear-cut, and the definition of a “reasonable assessment” is open to legal interpretation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each restaurant owner that we spoke to said that they try to balance wages between the front and back of the house as best as possible, but have been wary of violating the law. When Hillyard and his wife and co-owner Amy Hillyard opened Farley’s, the pair intentionally gave their cooks the job of delivering food to customers so that they could legally participate in the tip pool. Bednarz says that he has always pooled tips and has suggested raising the tip share between employees, but the final say came down to the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a legal minefield that we’re trying to maneuver here as we try to do right. And there are lots of ways that we can do wrong,” said Bednarz. “My interest is in making sure that the staff also feels like it is fair. None of the front of house crew, who have to give up a little bit more of what they take in, is unhappy to give a little bit more of it to the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for their willingness, Bednarz added, is because tip amounts have gone up along with prices. “Prices go up, tips go up, a lot more of the crew get to share more deeply in the pool of tips, and effectively everybody gets a raise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s state minimum wage rose from $8 per hour to $9 in July 2014, Camino owners \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/russell-moore/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Moore\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/allison-hopelain/\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Hopelain\u003c/a> made attempts to encourage the service staff to distribute tips. Unlike Bendarz’s employees, they chose not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was around the time that Veatch started working at the restaurant. “Russ and Allison had made a few attempts to allow the service staff to give us larger portions of the tipped money that was coming in, to cut the kitchen in,” he said. “But the law dictates that you, as the manager of a restaurant, are not allowed to distribute a server’s tips. They have to do that for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veatch believes this system to be entirely inequitable. “The real issue is that the money from tips is part of the kitchen’s doing. That imbalance has always bothered me, as someone who puts the hours in and who puts the passion in. Then there are other people who can walk in, serve your passion and walk out with two times the amount of money that you made in half the time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fact was part of Moore’s impetus for completely re-formatting his pay structure. “I was tired of the semi-legal prospect of trying to get the waiters to tip out more to the back of the house or trying to alter the tip pool,” he said. “We all know it’s sort of a grey area.” As of January 31, Camino no longer accepts tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Moore, co-owner of Camino: “Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?” \" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Moore, co-owner of Camino: “Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?” \u003ccite>(Courtesy Russell Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>The not-so-simple question of tipping\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Moore and Hopelain had always wanted to eliminate tips. Before opening Camino, Moore worked at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chez-panisse/\" target=\"_blank\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a>, where there is a 17% service charge on all bills. He and Hopelain wanted to take this principle one step further and incorporate that charge into the cost of the dishes. But, he said, “we kind of chickened out. We were going to be in this weird stretch of Oakland and back then there weren’t many restaurants opening there.” The pair instead instated a regular tipping system with a tip pool. They kept all front of house employees at the same wage, where they all shared tasks and tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Moore said, “As minimum wage has been going up, we’ve thought more and more about how we could change it and what we could do.” They entertained the idea of adding a service charge, as at Chez Panisse, but changed their mind once they read the wording of Measure FF. According to the measure, service charges “shall be paid over in their entirety to the Hospitality Workers performing services for the customers.” The measure also stipulates that supervisors and owners could not take in any of the service charges. Moore was concerned that he wouldn’t legally be able to divide a service charge with the back of the house workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t seem like we could cleanly have a service charge and cleanly decide where all that money goes,” he said. “So we thought, ‘Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of Camino’s menus advertises its tip-less system in bold type. And the dishes themselves are significantly more expensive — more than 20% — than they were before the change. The increased item price goes directly to paying employees’ higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, says Moore, there hasn’t been any backlash from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host Hannah Rice is often the first person to explain the new system to guests. “I thought people wouldn’t be so accepting. But everyone has been really excited about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veatch has been in to eat in the restaurant on his days off and he says that his friends find it exciting. “They’re like, ‘Oh there’s no tip!’ There’s confusion as to what you’re supposed to do, but I talk them through it,” he said. “I think everyone has really accepted it as a beneficial form of dining. You just get to sign your check and leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter says that models like Camino’s have been met with criticism from labor activists because “they say it removes money from the pockets of servers and that is against the intent of Measure FF.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, notes Jayaraman, “The impetus to move more and more towards living wages paid by the employer as opposed to by consumer tips is a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore admits that he did lose servers over the wage change. “For some of our more experienced servers, this just gave them the impetus to do that other career that they wanted to do, start that business, go back to school, or do something else. They didn’t leave with ill will,” he said. “A couple went to other restaurants to make more money. But everyone gave lots of notice and we had plenty of time and at the end of the day, we have a really great staff, front and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has tried to combat employee turnover by increasing hours and reformatting the wage structure to encourage employees to work for promotion. Importantly, Moore says that the current wage structure incentivizes his servers to work five days a week, which qualifies them for health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Servers’ wages are also more predictable, he said. “I’ve always hated that feeling that servers are guns for hire. Like, ‘Oh it’s going to be a slow night, let’s cut them. Things are dying down, let’s send them home,’” he said. “Our selling points to servers were, ‘Yes, on a good Saturday night you’ll make less money. But on a slow Saturday brunch you’re going to make more.’” On those slow days, Moore gives the front of house staff other tasks to do, such as helping with kitchen prep work, in order for them to keep their hours up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore has also built in a growth track for his front of house employees. Typically, servers do not want to get promoted to a management position, he said, because that salary pays less than the server was making in tips. Plus, in his old system, all servers were paid the same. Now he gives servers with more experience a higher starting wage. “There’s incentive for the new server to learn more and become a better server and manager,” he said. “Like any other job in the world, you can get a raise, or you can not get a raise. We can manage people like you can manage people in any other line of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice was hired before the change, and she decided to stay on, despite losing her tips. “Overall I probably make less, but I’m OK with that. I think it is the right thing to do,” she said. “The minimum wage should be helping everyone, and with tips it is only really helping the front of the house. The dishwashers and the bussers get left behind. Everyone works together, so for one person to be making more is unfair.” Rice added that she would be happy to work at another restaurant with a similar tipless pay structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, she hopes to continue to work and move up the ranks at the restaurant. “They’re providing a chance for everyone to move around and be familiar with other parts of the restaurant,” she said. “We get to see different sides of the restaurant and experience a different position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Cabril Barnes, a manager at both Actual Café and Victory Burger, says that he would be one of those servers to leave if tips had been eliminated at his restaurant. “Tips are definitely an incentive. I personally would not want to work in a place without tips and work just for a flat base rate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the staffing changes, Moore and his employees all report that the restaurant’s service has improved. “We have a better sense of teamwork now,” said Rice. “Guests are looking closer at our service and they’re applauding us. Everyone is noticing positive effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter has long been an advocate for eliminating tips. He famously did so at his San Diego restaurant, The Linkery. “The idea that servers are motivated by tips is an enormous fallacy that has been totally disproven,” he said. “Great servers, as long as they are well-compensated, are going to do great work without tipping incentives. It turns out that that is pretty much how every other American works. When you’re fairly compensated, you’re going to do great work out of your own personal pride and the joy of doing great work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Moore reports that his servers feel just like that. “The servers said something curious the other day at staff meal. They said, ‘There’s something about this which makes everything feel more professional. It makes it feel less like I’m putting on an act for a customer in the hopes that they might tip me. It’s more like I have an incentive to just do a really good job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bednarz agrees. “You can argue all day long about how tips deviate based on the level of service or product that we give — they don’t. On a crappy day, our tips are just as good as on a good day. We know when we’re screwing up on the floor and when we’re kicking ass. And tips are mostly the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Moore’s back of the house team is pleased with the changes. “The cooks got raises and they’re excited that we’ve taken an interest in making it so they can keep living here. Our cooking crew has always been fairly solid, but now it’s really solid,” said Moore. “We pay more than almost anyone now. It’s still not enough, but it’s getting there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Veatch, “I’ve been in the industry for ten years and I’ve never worked at a restaurant that was more respectful for my hours, did more to pay me for the moments that I’m in there, and cared more for me from a quality-of-life perspective and a cost of living perspective than Camino. I would never go back to a restaurant with a traditional tipping system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore hopes that more restaurants will see Camino’s success and mimic their payment approach. “What I would love is for the restaurants that are really busy and popular, that make more money, for them to make the change,” he said. “But I think they’re nervous about losing their floor staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a really big change, and there’s going to be a big transition,” Moore continued. “I think the ‘no tipping’ model might be the model because I think customers are going to get tired of weird charges at restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice agrees. “I think that we’re going to be seeing a lot of less traditional restaurant [pay structures] over time. We’ll be seeing more restaurants that are adopting what Camino is doing,” said Rice. “Restaurants are also becoming more professional than they were before, which is a big deal for the Bay Area because restaurants are such a big part of our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Moore is pleased with the change. “It’s sort of scary being the test case but Allison and I are super happy with it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540.jpg\" alt=\"Chinatown’s Legendary Palace shut down earlier this year.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown’s Legendary Palace shut down earlier this year. \u003ccite>( sfbaywalk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Wages increase and Chinatown struggles\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Other restaurateurs in Oakland have not been as happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, stories in on \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Its-the-Final-Nail-to-the-Coffin-Chinatown-Businesses-Struggle-Over-Oaklands-New-Minimum-Wage-296527421.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>, on \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/03/16/minimum-wage-hike-hits-oakland-chinatown-shop-restaurant-owners-hard/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS SF Bay Area\u003c/a>, and in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Minimum-wage-hike-hurts-Oakland-Chinatown-6133798.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> documented struggles in Oakland’s Chinatown. The Chronicle reported that four restaurants and six grocery stores in and around Chinatown closed in advance of the wage hike, including Legendary Palace, a popular banquet restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bednarz, who has been working with the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, says the problem in Chinatown is greater than the repercussions of increased labor costs. “There’s kind of a perfect storm going on in Chinatown. The port strike really hurt during Chinese New Year. There is the competition around Chinatown. Other cities now have more Asian markets and restaurants popping up so that people that used to commute to Chinatown to do their shopping now sometimes do it in their home city. Real-estate prices are starting to go up,” he said. “And now there’s this wage increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown restaurants have generally not followed the same trends as the newer, pricier restaurants in booming parts of Oakland. Instead, they have succeeded based on providing food and other goods at super-low prices. According to Bednarz, it is this pricing structure that may be these businesses’ downfall. “It’s apparent that some Chinatown businesses might need to find other strategies to differentiate themselves. Rather than using price as the primary means to compete, they may need to focus on service and product instead,” Bednarz wrote in an \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2015/04/oakland-minimum-wage-part-3-a-perfect-storm-in-chinatown-community-voices/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed for Oakland Local\u003c/a>. “They might need to use different marketing strategies to reach non-Chinese customers, but need to do this carefully so they don’t alienate their Chinese neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman takes a harder stance. She points out that all restaurants have to refigure their budgets for all sorts of unexpected price increases, such as food costs or rental agreements. “When other costs go up and you see a business close, the public doesn’t say, ‘Oh well, that means we should have kept food costs artificially down.’ They say, ‘That’s too bad the restaurant couldn’t figure out how to make it work,’” she said. “Why is it that with wages alone, as opposed to every other cost, we say, ‘We should artificially depress wages to help out these business owners?’ We don’t say that with food costs, we don’t say that with supplier costs of any other kind. We can’t say that with human costs either. Human costs have so much greater impact on so many more people than all the other costs that a restaurant has to pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bednarz and Jayaraman agree that outreach and business support will go a long way to preventing more businesses from closing. “Our feeling is that business that just outright close when the minimum wage goes up either weren’t properly operating to begin with or don’t have the support or the know-how and the technical assistance to figure out how to make it work,” said Jayaraman. “I would love these employers that are struggling to be in touch with us and we can provide … peer support, or even potential access to various supports and capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman has organized a group of what she calls “\u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/our-work/high-road/\" target=\"_blank\">High Road Restaurants\u003c/a>” within ROC-United. “It’s not only a group of folks that are advocating for better wages and working conditions but it’s also a peer network for employers to learn from one another how to continually raise wages and do the right thing,” she said. In the East Bay, her group includes Arizmendi, Café Gabriela, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/fusebox/\" target=\"_blank\">FuseBOX\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/kainbigan/\" target=\"_blank\">Kain’bigan\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/kingston-11/\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston 11\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/pietisserie/\" target=\"_blank\">PieTisserie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/sweet-bar-bakery/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Bar Bakery\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/tamales-la-oaxaquena/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamales la Oaxaquena\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/swans-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Swan’s Marketplace\u003c/a> businesses \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/b-dama/\" target=\"_blank\">B-Dama\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/cosecha/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosecha\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/miss-ollies/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie’s\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/the-cook-and-her-farmer/\" target=\"_blank\">The Cook and Her Farmer\u003c/a>. Kingston 11, in particular, has been involved in the group. Jayaraman says that the owners Adrian Henderson, Nigel Jones and Andre King came with her to Washington D.C. during the “Fight for 15” rallies on April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Bednarz, along with Hillyard and several other prominent Oakland restaurateurs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/charlie-hallowell/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Hallowell\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/pizzaiolo/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/penrose/\" target=\"_blank\">Penrose\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/boot-and-shoe-service/\" target=\"_blank\">Boot and Shoe Service\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chris-pastena/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Pastena\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chop-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">Chop Bar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/lungomare/\" target=\"_blank\">Lungomare\u003c/a>; Emily and Scott Goldenberg of Caffe 817; and Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/homeroom/\" target=\"_blank\">Homeroom\u003c/a> teamed up earlier this year to brainstorm ways to adapt their budget and support other small business owners. “I would characterize the group as being a collection of values-driven restaurant owners, folks who are as concerned about fairness as they are about their own personal financial well-being,” said Bednarz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t form it to be an advocacy group or anything, it was more about partnering together,” said Hillyard. “If we wanted to do social marketing stuff together, great. If we just wanted to be a sounding board for ideas for one another, that’s OK too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s main objective quickly became clear — education. “We needed to educate the public on why prices were going up and why it’s a good thing because everyone is going to be earning more income,” said Hillyard. “Our customers understood why prices went up and it’s fortunately worked out OK so far.” Member restaurants were active supporters of the Lift Up Oakland campaign, and some, like Bednarz and Hillyard, spoke at rallies and wrote letters to members of Oakland’s government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaking for myself personally, and interpreting what I hear and see from other folks, we genuinely give a crap about what is happening in all parts of Oakland,” said Bednarz. “And the last thing that I want to see is small businesses that have been anchors of neighborhoods for decades go out of business because they are unable to adapt to the change in their cost structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes, who works for Bednarz, was so impressed with his employer’s involvement that he, too, got involved. He spoke with other neighborhood restaurants and wrote a letter to the new mayor, Libby Schaff, who was been a vocal supporter of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to help any business struggling with the wage increase, say both Bednarz and Jayaraman, is to continue to support Oakland businesses, especially those in Chinatown. “Visit Chinatown. Remind yourself that it’s full of interesting restaurants and eat at your favorites. Tell the staff that you’d support them even if they raised their prices a bit,” said Bednarz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480.png\" alt=\"Actual Café. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480.png 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480-400x267.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual Café. \u003ccite>(Carrie Cizauskas/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Emeryville set for highest minimum wage in country\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Only three miles but a world away from Chinatown, Oakland’s neighbor to the west has been having minimum wage debates of its own. Last week, Emeryville’s city council unanimously approved a rapid minimum wage increase — from $9 to over $14 per hour — to occur this July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Oakland’s wage increase, Emeryville’s change did not come about via an election. Instead, the council members drafted and voted on an ordinance to increase the wage on their own, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">as they did in Berkeley last year\u003c/a>. The council has accepted public comments at special city council meetings, but did not call for a study of the increase or ask for input other than during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s wage will be, by far, the highest in the country, and it is set to increase almost to $16 per hour by 2019. Despite support for a fair wage, Emeryville small businesses were not supportive of the original proposal, which would have included all businesses with at least 10 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with fewer than 10 employees would be able to take a small business exemption and phase in the wage increase over three years. Those who take the exemption would need to match Oakland’s $12.25 wage on July 1; the following year, wages would rise to $13 per hour and continue to increase by one dollar per hour each year until 2019, when the wage would need to match the rest of Emeryville. After push back from business owners like Hillyard, who has 12 employees at his Emeryville location and wouldn’t have qualified for the exemption, the council has amended its proposal to define a small business at 55 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, said Hillyard, who opened his Emeryville Farley’s location in 2010, is that the increase is scheduled to go in effect overnight. Hillyard has already raised his prices at his Emeryville location to match those at Farley’s East, but doesn’t believe he could retain his customers with a second price increase this summer. “There would definitely be customer push back at that point. I don’t know what we would do,” he said. “Even our employees are saying, ‘Wow, that’s a big increase. That would be great, but that might be hard for the business.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another concern about Emeryville’s wage increase is that it will shift the economic dynamic between it and other East Bay cities. Employees could theoretically leave jobs in Berkeley or Oakland to go work in Emervyille, while customers could theoretically abandon pricier Emeryville restaurants for others across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bendarz explained, it isn’t difficult for potential customers to comparison shop. “A latte is a latte and you can get something fairly similar at plenty of places around town. For customers who are particularly price sensitive, it’s not a big trip for them to go two blocks across the Berkeley border and get a similar drink for less,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to stymie these concerns, Berkeley mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/04/22/berkeley-mayor-proposes-east-bay-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Bates proposed a coordinated regional minimum wage\u003c/a> last spring between the East Bay cites of Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany and El Cerrito. Bates suggested that each neighboring city match Oakland’s wage plan in order to level the playing field between regional businesses. “I don’t want to put our businesses at a disadvantage with regard to neighboring communities. It makes sense for everyone to have the same wage,” he told Berkeleyside in April 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Hillyard is in support of a regional approach to wage increase. “It would make it much easier for businesses. For example, [Bednarz’s] Actual Cafe is a block and half away from our Emeryville store. If they’re paying a wage that’s two dollars less per hour that means their prices are going to be less as well and it puts our Emeryville store in a difficult competitive situation. The increase would be a real challenge for Emeryville small businesses,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of October, when Berkeley’s minimum wage went up to $10 per hour, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/01/berkeleys-minimum-wage-is-10-starting-today-oct-1/\" target=\"_blank\">Bates was still advocating for a regional wage\u003c/a>. It may happen without actual legislation. Both Oakland and Emeryville’s wage increases have prompted further discussion on the part of Berkeley City Council’s Labor Commission. Last month, the commission proposed a revised minimum wage law that would increase wages to $16 by 2017 and include language similar to Measure FF regarding service charges. The council is expected to consider the proposal June 9; meanwhile Berkeley’s Minimum Wage Initiative Coalition plans on filing for a ballot measure petition should the proposal fall through, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27775621/berkeley-could-have-16-minimum-wage-by-2017\" target=\"_blank\">Conta Costa Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Hillyard, owner of Farley’s on 65th in Emeryville and Farley’s East in Uptown, supported Measure FF, but has concerns about Emeryville’s proposed wage increase. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Hillyard, owner of Farley’s on 65th in Emeryville and Farley’s East in Uptown, supported Measure FF, but has concerns about Emeryville’s proposed wage increase. \u003ccite>(courtesy Chris Hillyard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Looking to the future: diners encouraged to get involved\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The IRLE is currently researching how Oakland restaurants have adapted to the wage increase. The research center collected data on prices before and after the increase, and, according to Reich, plans to release the research soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the results, Oakland restaurant employees and owners predict more changes to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a big picture win for everybody, but any time that there’s a change in the industry, any time there’s a disruption like this, it will have some kind of random effects,” said Porter. “Some might unfortunately take a hit to their business, and that could be me. There’s no guarantee that it won’t be me. So everyone’s a little nervous because you know that when there’s a sea change like this, it’s the roll of the dice could be that it doesn’t work for me short term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, added Porter, “The only way to make the business sustainable is for price of going out to reflect the price of paying employees in our community enough to live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pina Kahlo, a barista at the new Speaker Box Café in Uptown, thinks that the minimum wage issue is more complicated. “Minimum wage is going to be minimum wage. The system was never meant to fully take care of [service workers]. It is up to us as individuals to be good neighbors to one another, to see one another as human,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her solution? Stay active and engaged. “Come out for fair wage, come be with people who also think and want to hang out and make friends too. If you are not out being with people who expressly say ‘I am about this thing,’ then you are the one that’s missing out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Jayaraman encourages diners to continue to participate in the wage discussion. “I would encourage the consuming public to continue to express their support for workers having better wages and working conditions every time they eat out,” she said. “It’s both a way to let restaurants know that customers really value these things, and it’s also a way to express support to employers who are making the change, staying in business, doing it right, not complaining and trying to figure it out. … More than ever we should be supporting Oakland restaurants because they’ve made a huge leap.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On March 2, the city of Oakland raised its minimum wage by 36%. At $12.25 per hour, the new wage is the highest in the country — for now. San Francisco matched this wage on May 1, and Emeryville will leapfrog both cities in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage increase was voted into law last November as a part of Measure FF. Over 80% of Oakland residents supported the measure. And while all Oakland businesses are now required to abide by the new wage, conversations about its benefits and repercussions have been most active in the restaurant industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants have notoriously small operational budget margins, and are, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/saru-jayaraman/\" target=\"_blank\">Saru Jayaraman\u003c/a>, the co-director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/restaurant-opportunities-centers-united/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant Opportunity Centers United\u003c/a> (ROC-United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, one of the largest employers of low-wage workers in the United States. Jayaraman reports that seven out of the ten lowest paying jobs in the country are restaurant jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Saru Jayaraman, seen here speaking with Berkeleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel at Uncharted 2014, says in the long run wage increases in the restaurant field will be better for business.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Frances-with-Saru-by-Pete-Rosos-720x480-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saru Jayaraman, seen here speaking with Berkeleyside’s Frances Dinkelspiel at Uncharted 2014, says in the long run wage increases in the restaurant field will be better for business. \u003ccite>(Pete Rosos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California does, however, have some protections for restaurant workers. Service staff is required to make at least the state minimum wage; they are not permitted to be paid a “tipped minimum” of $2.13 per hour as they are in other states. Still, the state’s minimum wage of $9 per hour doesn’t go very far in the Bay Area’s booming economy. (Indeed, according to \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/0600153000\" target=\"_blank\">MIT’s Living Wage Calculator\u003c/a>, the minimum wage needed to support a single adult in Oakland is over $11; one needs to make over double that number to support even a small family.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been an ongoing problem in the restaurant industry where many of our employees have trouble paying the bills. It is bad for the industry and bad for the community,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/jay-porter/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Porter\u003c/a>, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/the-half-orange/\" target=\"_blank\">The Half Orange\u003c/a> in Fruitvale and upcoming \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/salsipuedes/\" target=\"_blank\">Salsipuedes\u003c/a> in North Oakland. “When one of your most significant industries as a whole employs people at a sub-living wage, that’s not good for the community. That’s money that’s not circulating in the economy. It also means that there’s a really high turnover. It means that a lot of people are having to work 70 to 80 hours a week to pay the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure FF was an attempt to change that problem. The measure not only set Oakland’s minimum wage at $12.25 per hour, but it also added mandatory paid sick leave and provided means for retaliation should employers not follow the new rules. Oakland’s new wage is now also tied to the Consumer Price Index, and it will be allowed to rise each year on January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners have adapted to the wage increase in various ways. Most, like Porter, have simply increased prices to account for the higher labor costs. Other restaurants, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/homestead/\" target=\"_blank\">Homestead,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/dopo/\" target=\"_blank\">Dopo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/camino/\" target=\"_blank\">Camino\u003c/a> in Oakland, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/comal/\" target=\"_blank\">Comal\u003c/a> in Berkeley, have used this wage increase to re-format their entire wage structure. All four have eliminated tipping and have incorporated the average tip amount (around 20% of the total bill) to the line item charge for each dish on their menus. Still others, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/bocanova/\" target=\"_blank\">Bocanova\u003c/a> in Jack London Square, have added a mandatory service charge to their bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These adaptations are part of a larger conversation. Last month saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/fight-for-15/\" target=\"_blank\">local and national protests\u003c/a> for a $15 minimum wage. Measure FF has prompted many restaurants to reconsider tipping and fair pay between employees. Small, non-English speaking food businesses are closing, or considering it. Emeryville is considering an historically large wage bump — from $9 per hour to over $14. And everyone, especially restaurant workers, are reconsidering what, exactly, a fair wage means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Porter and Katie Mayfield own The Half Orange and forthcoming Salsipuedes. Porter has been an advocate for disrupting the traditional tipping systems in restaurants. \" width=\"720\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/JayPorter-KatieMayfield-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Porter and Katie Mayfield own The Half Orange and forthcoming Salsipuedes. Porter has been an advocate for disrupting the traditional tipping systems in restaurants. \u003ccite>(Jay Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Increases better for business?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/institute-for-research-on-labor-and-employment/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\u003c/a> (IRLE) prepared a policy brief on the Oakland measure last June. The research suggested that restaurants and retail businesses would likely be most affected by the increase, but restaurants would only need to raise their prices by 2.5%. Authors Michael Reich, Ken Jacobs, Annette Berndardt and Ian Perry suggested that reduced employee turnover costs and improved work performance would make up for increased labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the restaurant owners we have spoken to have all raised their prices much more than 2.5%. Chris Hillyard of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/farleys-east/\" target=\"_blank\">Farley’s\u003c/a> coffee shops in Uptown and in Emeryville raised his prices between 5% and 15%, depending on the item. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/sal-bednarz/\" target=\"_blank\">Sal Bednarz\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/actual-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Actual Café\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/victory-burger/\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Burger\u003c/a> gave most of his items at 9% bump. Porter’s prices went up around 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is clear that the researchers missed some of the important parts of the picture. They talked about a restaurant price increase of 3%. That still may be the average price increase, but for the small restaurants that I’m talking to, none of us can do it for 3%, none of us,” said Bednarz. “A lot of us are doing double digit price increases, much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillyard noted labor costs are more complicated than the direct wage cost. “There are also sick days. Plus workers compensation goes up because your payroll costs have gone up,” he said. Indeed, the IRLE report didn’t include the increased costs of paid sick leave. However, Reich noted in an email that Oakland area restaurant prices have been increasing around 2.4% per year, which makes these bumps part of a general trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these price increases, most Oakland restaurants are still doing what they do best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our revenue is up a bit, and our customer traffic is close to what it was before we made the changes. We’ve had a lot of customers who have noticed the price increases. Some already understood why [they were] going up, some didn’t,” said Bednarz. “My crew was well equipped to educate them and had good conversations across the counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bednarz did report that his morning coffee business has been a bit slower than usual. “Who knows what that is. It could be something like our customers are driving a different direction to get to work or that schools in the neighborhood have different hours this week. In a few weeks it may come back, but it may not.” Porter and Hillyard also report fairly consistent business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman says that in the long run, the wage increase will be better for business. “The economy is going to do better. I think we’re going to see better restaurants, better service, better food. I think we’re going to see actually faster job growth. That’s what we’ve seen everywhere else every time the wage has gone up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another IRLE overview report on local minimum wage laws said that wage increases do increase the spending power of employees and that they do typically spend that extra money. The authors did note, however, that research still needs to be done to estimate the economic stimulus created by this new spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps just as important as spending power is employee morale. “You’re going to have healthier workers because they have paid sick days. You’re going to have happier workers because they’re better paid. You’re going to have better service. It’s going to be good for everybody,” said Jayaraman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as Bednarz explained, these changes will not happen overnight. His employees received their first increased pay check three weeks after restaurants instated higher prices. “That’s a number of weeks of lag,” he said. “The folks who are coming to a place like mine in the morning are coming up for their morning coffee, and they’re often daily customers. A small increase in what they’re paying, that increases five times. It accumulates. I’m not saying that these people don’t care about what we’re doing, but they may not be able to afford to care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339.jpg\" alt=\"Sandwiches at Victory Burger have gone up in price by around 9% after the wage increase went into effect.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/IMG_2339-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandwiches at Victory Burger have gone up in price by around 9% after the wage increase went into effect. \u003ccite>(Emilie Raguso)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Front of house or back of the house? Unequal pay\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Historically, there have been three different wage structures in place in restaurants. Employees in the “back of the house” — cooks, dishwashers, bussers — make a single hourly wage without tips. Those in the “front of the house” — servers and hosts — make an hourly minimum plus tips on their bills. Managers usually get a salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California doesn’t allow for a tipped minimum, front-of-house workers typically take home far more income than the cooks and dishwashers in the back of the house — even if the back-of-the-house workers are making more than the minimum wage. This means that, even if all employees get a wage increase, the front of house still stands to bring home substantially more income. If prices increase, tips will increase as well, further increasing take-home pay. (Some restaurant owners we spoke to, like Porter, gave everyone a raise, while others, like Bednarz, raised wages only for those making below $12.25, with a few exceptions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a high-end restaurant where diners are tipping 20% on a $100 tab, the profits for servers can be very high. “I understand that for servers in places that they’re still getting tipped, they’re making a killing,” said Tim Veatch, a cook at Camino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a fairly common practice for restaurants to “pool” tips at the end of service and divide up the total among employees. Typically under this system, servers take home a higher proportion of the tip, while back-of-the-house employees get a smaller percentage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s labor code makes this practice a little more complicated. It does allow for tip pooling, but the original legislation says that tips must go to those who are in a “direct line of service.” However, in 2009, the California Supreme Court ruled on several cases that challenged the wording of the legislation. In Etheridge v. Reins International, the court held that all employees in the “chain of service” are eligible to receive a share of tips, which included dishwashers and other members of the kitchen staff. In Budrow v. Dave & Busters, the court expanded that idea to say that the decision regarding who can participate in the tip pool can be “based on a reasonable assessment of the patron’s intentions.” The differences between a “direct line of” and “chain of” service aren’t exactly clear-cut, and the definition of a “reasonable assessment” is open to legal interpretation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each restaurant owner that we spoke to said that they try to balance wages between the front and back of the house as best as possible, but have been wary of violating the law. When Hillyard and his wife and co-owner Amy Hillyard opened Farley’s, the pair intentionally gave their cooks the job of delivering food to customers so that they could legally participate in the tip pool. Bednarz says that he has always pooled tips and has suggested raising the tip share between employees, but the final say came down to the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a legal minefield that we’re trying to maneuver here as we try to do right. And there are lots of ways that we can do wrong,” said Bednarz. “My interest is in making sure that the staff also feels like it is fair. None of the front of house crew, who have to give up a little bit more of what they take in, is unhappy to give a little bit more of it to the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for their willingness, Bednarz added, is because tip amounts have gone up along with prices. “Prices go up, tips go up, a lot more of the crew get to share more deeply in the pool of tips, and effectively everybody gets a raise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s state minimum wage rose from $8 per hour to $9 in July 2014, Camino owners \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/russell-moore/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Moore\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/allison-hopelain/\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Hopelain\u003c/a> made attempts to encourage the service staff to distribute tips. Unlike Bendarz’s employees, they chose not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was around the time that Veatch started working at the restaurant. “Russ and Allison had made a few attempts to allow the service staff to give us larger portions of the tipped money that was coming in, to cut the kitchen in,” he said. “But the law dictates that you, as the manager of a restaurant, are not allowed to distribute a server’s tips. They have to do that for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veatch believes this system to be entirely inequitable. “The real issue is that the money from tips is part of the kitchen’s doing. That imbalance has always bothered me, as someone who puts the hours in and who puts the passion in. Then there are other people who can walk in, serve your passion and walk out with two times the amount of money that you made in half the time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fact was part of Moore’s impetus for completely re-formatting his pay structure. “I was tired of the semi-legal prospect of trying to get the waiters to tip out more to the back of the house or trying to alter the tip pool,” he said. “We all know it’s sort of a grey area.” As of January 31, Camino no longer accepts tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Moore, co-owner of Camino: “Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?” \" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Russell-Moore-720x539-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Moore, co-owner of Camino: “Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?” \u003ccite>(Courtesy Russell Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>The not-so-simple question of tipping\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Moore and Hopelain had always wanted to eliminate tips. Before opening Camino, Moore worked at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chez-panisse/\" target=\"_blank\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a>, where there is a 17% service charge on all bills. He and Hopelain wanted to take this principle one step further and incorporate that charge into the cost of the dishes. But, he said, “we kind of chickened out. We were going to be in this weird stretch of Oakland and back then there weren’t many restaurants opening there.” The pair instead instated a regular tipping system with a tip pool. They kept all front of house employees at the same wage, where they all shared tasks and tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Moore said, “As minimum wage has been going up, we’ve thought more and more about how we could change it and what we could do.” They entertained the idea of adding a service charge, as at Chez Panisse, but changed their mind once they read the wording of Measure FF. According to the measure, service charges “shall be paid over in their entirety to the Hospitality Workers performing services for the customers.” The measure also stipulates that supervisors and owners could not take in any of the service charges. Moore was concerned that he wouldn’t legally be able to divide a service charge with the back of the house workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t seem like we could cleanly have a service charge and cleanly decide where all that money goes,” he said. “So we thought, ‘Why don’t we just charge people what it costs to eat at our restaurant?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of Camino’s menus advertises its tip-less system in bold type. And the dishes themselves are significantly more expensive — more than 20% — than they were before the change. The increased item price goes directly to paying employees’ higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, says Moore, there hasn’t been any backlash from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host Hannah Rice is often the first person to explain the new system to guests. “I thought people wouldn’t be so accepting. But everyone has been really excited about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veatch has been in to eat in the restaurant on his days off and he says that his friends find it exciting. “They’re like, ‘Oh there’s no tip!’ There’s confusion as to what you’re supposed to do, but I talk them through it,” he said. “I think everyone has really accepted it as a beneficial form of dining. You just get to sign your check and leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter says that models like Camino’s have been met with criticism from labor activists because “they say it removes money from the pockets of servers and that is against the intent of Measure FF.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, notes Jayaraman, “The impetus to move more and more towards living wages paid by the employer as opposed to by consumer tips is a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore admits that he did lose servers over the wage change. “For some of our more experienced servers, this just gave them the impetus to do that other career that they wanted to do, start that business, go back to school, or do something else. They didn’t leave with ill will,” he said. “A couple went to other restaurants to make more money. But everyone gave lots of notice and we had plenty of time and at the end of the day, we have a really great staff, front and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has tried to combat employee turnover by increasing hours and reformatting the wage structure to encourage employees to work for promotion. Importantly, Moore says that the current wage structure incentivizes his servers to work five days a week, which qualifies them for health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Servers’ wages are also more predictable, he said. “I’ve always hated that feeling that servers are guns for hire. Like, ‘Oh it’s going to be a slow night, let’s cut them. Things are dying down, let’s send them home,’” he said. “Our selling points to servers were, ‘Yes, on a good Saturday night you’ll make less money. But on a slow Saturday brunch you’re going to make more.’” On those slow days, Moore gives the front of house staff other tasks to do, such as helping with kitchen prep work, in order for them to keep their hours up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore has also built in a growth track for his front of house employees. Typically, servers do not want to get promoted to a management position, he said, because that salary pays less than the server was making in tips. Plus, in his old system, all servers were paid the same. Now he gives servers with more experience a higher starting wage. “There’s incentive for the new server to learn more and become a better server and manager,” he said. “Like any other job in the world, you can get a raise, or you can not get a raise. We can manage people like you can manage people in any other line of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice was hired before the change, and she decided to stay on, despite losing her tips. “Overall I probably make less, but I’m OK with that. I think it is the right thing to do,” she said. “The minimum wage should be helping everyone, and with tips it is only really helping the front of the house. The dishwashers and the bussers get left behind. Everyone works together, so for one person to be making more is unfair.” Rice added that she would be happy to work at another restaurant with a similar tipless pay structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, she hopes to continue to work and move up the ranks at the restaurant. “They’re providing a chance for everyone to move around and be familiar with other parts of the restaurant,” she said. “We get to see different sides of the restaurant and experience a different position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Cabril Barnes, a manager at both Actual Café and Victory Burger, says that he would be one of those servers to leave if tips had been eliminated at his restaurant. “Tips are definitely an incentive. I personally would not want to work in a place without tips and work just for a flat base rate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the staffing changes, Moore and his employees all report that the restaurant’s service has improved. “We have a better sense of teamwork now,” said Rice. “Guests are looking closer at our service and they’re applauding us. Everyone is noticing positive effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter has long been an advocate for eliminating tips. He famously did so at his San Diego restaurant, The Linkery. “The idea that servers are motivated by tips is an enormous fallacy that has been totally disproven,” he said. “Great servers, as long as they are well-compensated, are going to do great work without tipping incentives. It turns out that that is pretty much how every other American works. When you’re fairly compensated, you’re going to do great work out of your own personal pride and the joy of doing great work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Moore reports that his servers feel just like that. “The servers said something curious the other day at staff meal. They said, ‘There’s something about this which makes everything feel more professional. It makes it feel less like I’m putting on an act for a customer in the hopes that they might tip me. It’s more like I have an incentive to just do a really good job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bednarz agrees. “You can argue all day long about how tips deviate based on the level of service or product that we give — they don’t. On a crappy day, our tips are just as good as on a good day. We know when we’re screwing up on the floor and when we’re kicking ass. And tips are mostly the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, Moore’s back of the house team is pleased with the changes. “The cooks got raises and they’re excited that we’ve taken an interest in making it so they can keep living here. Our cooking crew has always been fairly solid, but now it’s really solid,” said Moore. “We pay more than almost anyone now. It’s still not enough, but it’s getting there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Added Veatch, “I’ve been in the industry for ten years and I’ve never worked at a restaurant that was more respectful for my hours, did more to pay me for the moments that I’m in there, and cared more for me from a quality-of-life perspective and a cost of living perspective than Camino. I would never go back to a restaurant with a traditional tipping system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore hopes that more restaurants will see Camino’s success and mimic their payment approach. “What I would love is for the restaurants that are really busy and popular, that make more money, for them to make the change,” he said. “But I think they’re nervous about losing their floor staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a really big change, and there’s going to be a big transition,” Moore continued. “I think the ‘no tipping’ model might be the model because I think customers are going to get tired of weird charges at restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rice agrees. “I think that we’re going to be seeing a lot of less traditional restaurant [pay structures] over time. We’ll be seeing more restaurants that are adopting what Camino is doing,” said Rice. “Restaurants are also becoming more professional than they were before, which is a big deal for the Bay Area because restaurants are such a big part of our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Moore is pleased with the change. “It’s sort of scary being the test case but Allison and I are super happy with it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540.jpg\" alt=\"Chinatown’s Legendary Palace shut down earlier this year.\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96357\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/7373492948_4ac0b22e13_k-720x540-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinatown’s Legendary Palace shut down earlier this year. \u003ccite>( sfbaywalk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Wages increase and Chinatown struggles\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Other restaurateurs in Oakland have not been as happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, stories in on \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Its-the-Final-Nail-to-the-Coffin-Chinatown-Businesses-Struggle-Over-Oaklands-New-Minimum-Wage-296527421.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>, on \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/03/16/minimum-wage-hike-hits-oakland-chinatown-shop-restaurant-owners-hard/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS SF Bay Area\u003c/a>, and in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Minimum-wage-hike-hurts-Oakland-Chinatown-6133798.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> documented struggles in Oakland’s Chinatown. The Chronicle reported that four restaurants and six grocery stores in and around Chinatown closed in advance of the wage hike, including Legendary Palace, a popular banquet restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bednarz, who has been working with the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, says the problem in Chinatown is greater than the repercussions of increased labor costs. “There’s kind of a perfect storm going on in Chinatown. The port strike really hurt during Chinese New Year. There is the competition around Chinatown. Other cities now have more Asian markets and restaurants popping up so that people that used to commute to Chinatown to do their shopping now sometimes do it in their home city. Real-estate prices are starting to go up,” he said. “And now there’s this wage increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown restaurants have generally not followed the same trends as the newer, pricier restaurants in booming parts of Oakland. Instead, they have succeeded based on providing food and other goods at super-low prices. According to Bednarz, it is this pricing structure that may be these businesses’ downfall. “It’s apparent that some Chinatown businesses might need to find other strategies to differentiate themselves. Rather than using price as the primary means to compete, they may need to focus on service and product instead,” Bednarz wrote in an \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2015/04/oakland-minimum-wage-part-3-a-perfect-storm-in-chinatown-community-voices/\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed for Oakland Local\u003c/a>. “They might need to use different marketing strategies to reach non-Chinese customers, but need to do this carefully so they don’t alienate their Chinese neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman takes a harder stance. She points out that all restaurants have to refigure their budgets for all sorts of unexpected price increases, such as food costs or rental agreements. “When other costs go up and you see a business close, the public doesn’t say, ‘Oh well, that means we should have kept food costs artificially down.’ They say, ‘That’s too bad the restaurant couldn’t figure out how to make it work,’” she said. “Why is it that with wages alone, as opposed to every other cost, we say, ‘We should artificially depress wages to help out these business owners?’ We don’t say that with food costs, we don’t say that with supplier costs of any other kind. We can’t say that with human costs either. Human costs have so much greater impact on so many more people than all the other costs that a restaurant has to pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bednarz and Jayaraman agree that outreach and business support will go a long way to preventing more businesses from closing. “Our feeling is that business that just outright close when the minimum wage goes up either weren’t properly operating to begin with or don’t have the support or the know-how and the technical assistance to figure out how to make it work,” said Jayaraman. “I would love these employers that are struggling to be in touch with us and we can provide … peer support, or even potential access to various supports and capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman has organized a group of what she calls “\u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/our-work/high-road/\" target=\"_blank\">High Road Restaurants\u003c/a>” within ROC-United. “It’s not only a group of folks that are advocating for better wages and working conditions but it’s also a peer network for employers to learn from one another how to continually raise wages and do the right thing,” she said. In the East Bay, her group includes Arizmendi, Café Gabriela, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/fusebox/\" target=\"_blank\">FuseBOX\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/kainbigan/\" target=\"_blank\">Kain’bigan\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/kingston-11/\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston 11\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/pietisserie/\" target=\"_blank\">PieTisserie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/sweet-bar-bakery/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Bar Bakery\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/tamales-la-oaxaquena/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamales la Oaxaquena\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/swans-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Swan’s Marketplace\u003c/a> businesses \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/b-dama/\" target=\"_blank\">B-Dama\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/cosecha/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosecha\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/miss-ollies/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie’s\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/the-cook-and-her-farmer/\" target=\"_blank\">The Cook and Her Farmer\u003c/a>. Kingston 11, in particular, has been involved in the group. Jayaraman says that the owners Adrian Henderson, Nigel Jones and Andre King came with her to Washington D.C. during the “Fight for 15” rallies on April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Bednarz, along with Hillyard and several other prominent Oakland restaurateurs like \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/charlie-hallowell/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Hallowell\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/pizzaiolo/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/penrose/\" target=\"_blank\">Penrose\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/boot-and-shoe-service/\" target=\"_blank\">Boot and Shoe Service\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chris-pastena/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Pastena\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/chop-bar/\" target=\"_blank\">Chop Bar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/lungomare/\" target=\"_blank\">Lungomare\u003c/a>; Emily and Scott Goldenberg of Caffe 817; and Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/homeroom/\" target=\"_blank\">Homeroom\u003c/a> teamed up earlier this year to brainstorm ways to adapt their budget and support other small business owners. “I would characterize the group as being a collection of values-driven restaurant owners, folks who are as concerned about fairness as they are about their own personal financial well-being,” said Bednarz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t form it to be an advocacy group or anything, it was more about partnering together,” said Hillyard. “If we wanted to do social marketing stuff together, great. If we just wanted to be a sounding board for ideas for one another, that’s OK too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s main objective quickly became clear — education. “We needed to educate the public on why prices were going up and why it’s a good thing because everyone is going to be earning more income,” said Hillyard. “Our customers understood why prices went up and it’s fortunately worked out OK so far.” Member restaurants were active supporters of the Lift Up Oakland campaign, and some, like Bednarz and Hillyard, spoke at rallies and wrote letters to members of Oakland’s government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaking for myself personally, and interpreting what I hear and see from other folks, we genuinely give a crap about what is happening in all parts of Oakland,” said Bednarz. “And the last thing that I want to see is small businesses that have been anchors of neighborhoods for decades go out of business because they are unable to adapt to the change in their cost structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes, who works for Bednarz, was so impressed with his employer’s involvement that he, too, got involved. He spoke with other neighborhood restaurants and wrote a letter to the new mayor, Libby Schaff, who was been a vocal supporter of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to help any business struggling with the wage increase, say both Bednarz and Jayaraman, is to continue to support Oakland businesses, especially those in Chinatown. “Visit Chinatown. Remind yourself that it’s full of interesting restaurants and eat at your favorites. Tell the staff that you’d support them even if they raised their prices a bit,” said Bednarz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480.png\" alt=\"Actual Café. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480.png 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/4434448412_6822b151cf_o-720x480-400x267.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual Café. \u003ccite>(Carrie Cizauskas/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Emeryville set for highest minimum wage in country\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Only three miles but a world away from Chinatown, Oakland’s neighbor to the west has been having minimum wage debates of its own. Last week, Emeryville’s city council unanimously approved a rapid minimum wage increase — from $9 to over $14 per hour — to occur this July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Oakland’s wage increase, Emeryville’s change did not come about via an election. Instead, the council members drafted and voted on an ordinance to increase the wage on their own, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">as they did in Berkeley last year\u003c/a>. The council has accepted public comments at special city council meetings, but did not call for a study of the increase or ask for input other than during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s wage will be, by far, the highest in the country, and it is set to increase almost to $16 per hour by 2019. Despite support for a fair wage, Emeryville small businesses were not supportive of the original proposal, which would have included all businesses with at least 10 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with fewer than 10 employees would be able to take a small business exemption and phase in the wage increase over three years. Those who take the exemption would need to match Oakland’s $12.25 wage on July 1; the following year, wages would rise to $13 per hour and continue to increase by one dollar per hour each year until 2019, when the wage would need to match the rest of Emeryville. After push back from business owners like Hillyard, who has 12 employees at his Emeryville location and wouldn’t have qualified for the exemption, the council has amended its proposal to define a small business at 55 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, said Hillyard, who opened his Emeryville Farley’s location in 2010, is that the increase is scheduled to go in effect overnight. Hillyard has already raised his prices at his Emeryville location to match those at Farley’s East, but doesn’t believe he could retain his customers with a second price increase this summer. “There would definitely be customer push back at that point. I don’t know what we would do,” he said. “Even our employees are saying, ‘Wow, that’s a big increase. That would be great, but that might be hard for the business.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another concern about Emeryville’s wage increase is that it will shift the economic dynamic between it and other East Bay cities. Employees could theoretically leave jobs in Berkeley or Oakland to go work in Emervyille, while customers could theoretically abandon pricier Emeryville restaurants for others across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bendarz explained, it isn’t difficult for potential customers to comparison shop. “A latte is a latte and you can get something fairly similar at plenty of places around town. For customers who are particularly price sensitive, it’s not a big trip for them to go two blocks across the Berkeley border and get a similar drink for less,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to stymie these concerns, Berkeley mayor \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/04/22/berkeley-mayor-proposes-east-bay-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Bates proposed a coordinated regional minimum wage\u003c/a> last spring between the East Bay cites of Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany and El Cerrito. Bates suggested that each neighboring city match Oakland’s wage plan in order to level the playing field between regional businesses. “I don’t want to put our businesses at a disadvantage with regard to neighboring communities. It makes sense for everyone to have the same wage,” he told Berkeleyside in April 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Hillyard is in support of a regional approach to wage increase. “It would make it much easier for businesses. For example, [Bednarz’s] Actual Cafe is a block and half away from our Emeryville store. If they’re paying a wage that’s two dollars less per hour that means their prices are going to be less as well and it puts our Emeryville store in a difficult competitive situation. The increase would be a real challenge for Emeryville small businesses,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of October, when Berkeley’s minimum wage went up to $10 per hour, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/01/berkeleys-minimum-wage-is-10-starting-today-oct-1/\" target=\"_blank\">Bates was still advocating for a regional wage\u003c/a>. It may happen without actual legislation. Both Oakland and Emeryville’s wage increases have prompted further discussion on the part of Berkeley City Council’s Labor Commission. Last month, the commission proposed a revised minimum wage law that would increase wages to $16 by 2017 and include language similar to Measure FF regarding service charges. The council is expected to consider the proposal June 9; meanwhile Berkeley’s Minimum Wage Initiative Coalition plans on filing for a ballot measure petition should the proposal fall through, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27775621/berkeley-could-have-16-minimum-wage-by-2017\" target=\"_blank\">Conta Costa Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Hillyard, owner of Farley’s on 65th in Emeryville and Farley’s East in Uptown, supported Measure FF, but has concerns about Emeryville’s proposed wage increase. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/Chris-Farleys-SF-720x480-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Hillyard, owner of Farley’s on 65th in Emeryville and Farley’s East in Uptown, supported Measure FF, but has concerns about Emeryville’s proposed wage increase. \u003ccite>(courtesy Chris Hillyard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Looking to the future: diners encouraged to get involved\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The IRLE is currently researching how Oakland restaurants have adapted to the wage increase. The research center collected data on prices before and after the increase, and, according to Reich, plans to release the research soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the results, Oakland restaurant employees and owners predict more changes to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a big picture win for everybody, but any time that there’s a change in the industry, any time there’s a disruption like this, it will have some kind of random effects,” said Porter. “Some might unfortunately take a hit to their business, and that could be me. There’s no guarantee that it won’t be me. So everyone’s a little nervous because you know that when there’s a sea change like this, it’s the roll of the dice could be that it doesn’t work for me short term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, added Porter, “The only way to make the business sustainable is for price of going out to reflect the price of paying employees in our community enough to live on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pina Kahlo, a barista at the new Speaker Box Café in Uptown, thinks that the minimum wage issue is more complicated. “Minimum wage is going to be minimum wage. The system was never meant to fully take care of [service workers]. It is up to us as individuals to be good neighbors to one another, to see one another as human,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her solution? Stay active and engaged. “Come out for fair wage, come be with people who also think and want to hang out and make friends too. If you are not out being with people who expressly say ‘I am about this thing,’ then you are the one that’s missing out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It started with a blog. Before there was Umami Mart, the carefully curated Japanese housewares \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/pages/visit\" target=\"_blank\">store in downtown Oakland\u003c/a>, there was Umami Mart \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the blog\u003c/a> -- a space for two old friends to talk about food while bored at their jobs at opposite ends of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friends, Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori, who met as teens growing up in Cupertino, used the site to discuss their culinary discoveries after Kumano moved to Tokyo and Akabori moved to New York City. The blog covered snarking \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/2007/07/The-SnarkReport-Moldy-Morimoto/\" target=\"_blank\">on Morimoto\u003c/a>, eating tofu skin \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/2007/03/Yuba-County/\" target=\"_blank\">in Nikko,\u003c/a> and how to survive the rest of the week with just $26 left in the food budget. Eventually the blog grew to 10 writers, some of whom were curious about specialized Japanese barware tools. (America's recent cocktail revival \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/article/tokyo-cocktail-capital-of-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">spurred an interest \u003c/a>in Japanese cocktail culture). Kumano and Akabori decided to import a few items and opened an \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">online shop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they both ended up back in the Bay Area in 2010, they seized upon a new program to move their online store into a brick-and-mortar shop. Small business incubator \u003ca href=\"http://www.popuphood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Popuphood \u003c/a>was offering six months of free rent to a new independent retail store. They applied, moved into the space in 2012 and have remained in the same Old Oakland location ever since, selling a carefully curated collection of Japanese kitchen and home items ranging from delicate matcha whisks to wasabi graters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95920 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of Umami Mart.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Umami Mart. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kumano and Akabori had wanted to start carrying alcohol in the store for a while, a fitting companion to their collections of Japanese barware: elegant 24-karat gold \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/collections/barware-barspoons-and-stirrers/products/gold-teardrop-barspoon\" target=\"_blank\">barspoons\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/collections/barware/products/ice-tray-l-sphere\" target=\"_blank\">spherical ice trays\u003c/a> and cedar \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/products/sake-sugi\" target=\"_blank\">sake cups\u003c/a>. And finally, after two years of wrangling with Oakland and wading through red tape, they were granted a license to sell beer and wine at the end of February. Now, the back wall of the store is filled with shelves of imported sake, wine and beer. Kumano, a certified sake expert, is happy to guide you through their large collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sake fans can find a wide variety of options in the Bay Area, for many people this will be their first introduction to Japanese beer outside of the mild lagers found in sushi restaurants across the country. That’s because for years those beers -- Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory -- were also virtually the only ones available in Japan. The country’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Japan\" target=\"_blank\">tax law \u003c/a>required that brewers had to produce a staggering amount of beer -- more than half a million barrels a year -- to get a beer license, allowing a few major breweries to dominate the market. When the law was changed in 1994 (requiring just 500 barrels a year) a craft beer boom began, and the current 200-plus craft breweries in Japan have become an increasingly major presence in the Japanese beer world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to generalize, but the Japanese, they tend to get super geeky about things,” Akabori said. “They’ve been taking these styles that are European, or Belgian, [that] have been made for hundreds of years, and they’re kind of perfecting it, or putting their own take on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95922 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359.jpg\" alt=\"The store's new bottle system.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The store's new bottle system. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like the U.S., the Japanese craft beer scene includes lots of brewers playing with the traditional styles, leading to beers aged in shochu casks, brewed with rice or incorporating specialty ingredients like miso or daidai. Unlike the U.S. craft beer market, however, the taste tends toward lighter beers. Lagers still dominate even the craft market, and IPAs are rare. If IPAs do show up on a menu, they’re much milder than the hoppy kinds Californians adore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a lingering German influence on the beer scene. After the tax law changed in 1994, many brewers learned to make beer \u003ca href=\"http://draftmag.com/japanese-craft-beer-history-future/\" target=\"_blank\">from Germans\u003c/a>, leading to a large number of kölsches and hefeweizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, beer is the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=sfvVAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA36&ots=0ri4ap-2fA&dq=beer%20most%20consumed%20japan&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q=beer%20most%20consumed%20japan&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">most consumed type of alcohol\u003c/a> in Japan and plays a major role in the social lives of city dwellers. Colleagues will typically go out to drinks and everybody -- even the nondrinkers -- are expected to cheers with a draft lager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost socialistic. I don’t drink that kind of lager, and I wasn’t used to that when I moved there,” Kumano said. “But everybody goes. The beginning kanpai -- the cheers -- is always that beer, the house draft beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tradition, coupled with the increasing number of young Japanese who don’t drink, has led brewers to develop tasty, complex, nonalcoholic beers for the abstinent, like the Kirin’s Free, which Umami Mart carries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95918 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313.jpg\" alt=\"Alcohol-free beers, like this Kirin beer, are popular in Japan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313-400x298.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313-1440x1073.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313-1180x879.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0313-960x716.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alcohol-free beers, like this Kirin beer, are popular in Japan. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Umami Mart currently offers 50 beers, but Kumano and Akabori are already hoping to acquire more -- a somewhat difficult task, given that they’ve exhausted the Japanese beer selection of most of their distributors. But customers have already started clamoring for a wider selection. The addition of beer and sake has brought them a new group of customers, some coming in asking for specific Japanese beers they remember from their travels, and some who are just craft beer obsessives looking for the latest interesting beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really seem to be into Japanese beer,” Akabori said. “Beer drinkers here are very geeky. The real aficionado types come in and they’re really into it. I hope that the demand with grow and hope more Japanese beer will start being imported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So … What should a newcomer to the world of Japanese beer drink? Kumano and Akabori rounded up a few of their favorites that run the gamut of their offerings, which I tasted with a group of friends (including professional coffee taster Jason Sarley):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" ids=\"95929,95928,95927,95926,95925,95924,95923\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale:\u003c/strong> A cheerful, easy-to-drink beer with a mild toasted rice flavor. This beer is relatively easy to find compared to other Japanese craft beers, but Umami carries a wider selection of this popular brewery, including their IPA and espresso stout.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ozeno Yukidoke IPA:\u003c/strong> Hoppy, crisp and familiar, with an initial bite that quickly softens and an almost woodsy richness.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ginga Kogen Weizen:\u003c/strong> Vaguely skunky, definitely assertive, this wheat beer was a bracing shock after the lightness of the other beers. The name means “plateau of the galaxy” and it’s bright, sharp and very, very interesting.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Niigata Golden Kolsch:\u003c/strong> This is definitely not your traditional kölsch. It’s darker (a deep amber instead of yellow) with a deep savory richness and smoothness, and has notes of blueberry and molasses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Yo-Ho Wednesday Cat:\u003c/strong> The packing of this beer raises a lot of questions: Why does the cat look so morose? Why is it “made for hump day?” A mild Belgian style wheat, it has the typical banana, citrus and spice combination familiar to anyone who's had a Blue Moon. Sweet, non-threatening and easy to drink even if it’s not a Wednesday. Its sweetness also makes it an ideal complement to salty foods.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Yo-Ho Yona Yona Ale:\u003c/strong> A lager from the country’s most popular craft brewery, this smooth, slightly fruity and sweet beer boasts notes of pear and honeysuckle.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Kinshachi Nagoya Red Miso Lager:\u003c/strong> Yes, you can taste the miso -- but only barely -- it's just enough to add an interesting salty note to this full-bodied, malty beer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95921 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic ghosts protect the Wednesday Cat beer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0356-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceramic ghosts protect the Wednesday Cat beer. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It started with a blog. Before there was Umami Mart, the carefully curated Japanese housewares \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/pages/visit\" target=\"_blank\">store in downtown Oakland\u003c/a>, there was Umami Mart \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the blog\u003c/a> -- a space for two old friends to talk about food while bored at their jobs at opposite ends of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friends, Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori, who met as teens growing up in Cupertino, used the site to discuss their culinary discoveries after Kumano moved to Tokyo and Akabori moved to New York City. The blog covered snarking \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/2007/07/The-SnarkReport-Moldy-Morimoto/\" target=\"_blank\">on Morimoto\u003c/a>, eating tofu skin \u003ca href=\"http://blog.umamimart.com/2007/03/Yuba-County/\" target=\"_blank\">in Nikko,\u003c/a> and how to survive the rest of the week with just $26 left in the food budget. Eventually the blog grew to 10 writers, some of whom were curious about specialized Japanese barware tools. (America's recent cocktail revival \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/article/tokyo-cocktail-capital-of-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">spurred an interest \u003c/a>in Japanese cocktail culture). Kumano and Akabori decided to import a few items and opened an \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">online shop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they both ended up back in the Bay Area in 2010, they seized upon a new program to move their online store into a brick-and-mortar shop. Small business incubator \u003ca href=\"http://www.popuphood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Popuphood \u003c/a>was offering six months of free rent to a new independent retail store. They applied, moved into the space in 2012 and have remained in the same Old Oakland location ever since, selling a carefully curated collection of Japanese kitchen and home items ranging from delicate matcha whisks to wasabi graters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95920 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of Umami Mart.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0351-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Umami Mart. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kumano and Akabori had wanted to start carrying alcohol in the store for a while, a fitting companion to their collections of Japanese barware: elegant 24-karat gold \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/collections/barware-barspoons-and-stirrers/products/gold-teardrop-barspoon\" target=\"_blank\">barspoons\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/collections/barware/products/ice-tray-l-sphere\" target=\"_blank\">spherical ice trays\u003c/a> and cedar \u003ca href=\"http://umamimart.com/products/sake-sugi\" target=\"_blank\">sake cups\u003c/a>. And finally, after two years of wrangling with Oakland and wading through red tape, they were granted a license to sell beer and wine at the end of February. Now, the back wall of the store is filled with shelves of imported sake, wine and beer. Kumano, a certified sake expert, is happy to guide you through their large collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sake fans can find a wide variety of options in the Bay Area, for many people this will be their first introduction to Japanese beer outside of the mild lagers found in sushi restaurants across the country. That’s because for years those beers -- Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory -- were also virtually the only ones available in Japan. The country’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Japan\" target=\"_blank\">tax law \u003c/a>required that brewers had to produce a staggering amount of beer -- more than half a million barrels a year -- to get a beer license, allowing a few major breweries to dominate the market. When the law was changed in 1994 (requiring just 500 barrels a year) a craft beer boom began, and the current 200-plus craft breweries in Japan have become an increasingly major presence in the Japanese beer world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to generalize, but the Japanese, they tend to get super geeky about things,” Akabori said. “They’ve been taking these styles that are European, or Belgian, [that] have been made for hundreds of years, and they’re kind of perfecting it, or putting their own take on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-95922 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359.jpg\" alt=\"The store's new bottle system.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/05/DSC_0359-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The store's new bottle system. \u003ccite>(Shelby Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like the U.S., the Japanese craft beer scene includes lots of brewers playing with the traditional styles, leading to beers aged in shochu casks, brewed with rice or incorporating specialty ingredients like miso or daidai. Unlike the U.S. craft beer market, however, the taste tends toward lighter beers. Lagers still dominate even the craft market, and IPAs are rare. If IPAs do show up on a menu, they’re much milder than the hoppy kinds Californians adore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a lingering German influence on the beer scene. After the tax law changed in 1994, many brewers learned to make beer \u003ca href=\"http://draftmag.com/japanese-craft-beer-history-future/\" target=\"_blank\">from Germans\u003c/a>, leading to a large number of kölsches and hefeweizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, beer is the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=sfvVAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA36&ots=0ri4ap-2fA&dq=beer%20most%20consumed%20japan&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q=beer%20most%20consumed%20japan&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">most consumed type of alcohol\u003c/a> in Japan and plays a major role in the social lives of city dwellers. Colleagues will typically go out to drinks and everybody -- even the nondrinkers -- are expected to cheers with a draft lager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost socialistic. I don’t drink that kind of lager, and I wasn’t used to that when I moved there,” Kumano said. “But everybody goes. 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But customers have already started clamoring for a wider selection. The addition of beer and sake has brought them a new group of customers, some coming in asking for specific Japanese beers they remember from their travels, and some who are just craft beer obsessives looking for the latest interesting beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really seem to be into Japanese beer,” Akabori said. “Beer drinkers here are very geeky. The real aficionado types come in and they’re really into it. I hope that the demand with grow and hope more Japanese beer will start being imported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So … What should a newcomer to the world of Japanese beer drink? Kumano and Akabori rounded up a few of their favorites that run the gamut of their offerings, which I tasted with a group of friends (including professional coffee taster Jason Sarley):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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