and well prepared, though none of the fancy “grass fed beef” that you find elsewhere in Berkeley. The Patio has an incredible beer selection that you'd expect to find on the East Coast but is, sadly, a rarity in...

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when they started carrying the Mochi ice cream. I have a question for you. How do you keep them from getting freezer burned after you have opened the package? I always have problems with...

dive, when in fact it serves the best fried shrimp I’ve had since the Eisenhower Administration. So, have you been to any restaurants recently that you’ll never return to again? Yucky food? Sucky service? Go ahead....

There is tons to eat in the East Bay and it’s not all at Chez Panisse prices. I'd suggest purusing the board and look for older posts by Limster on Berkeley eats and David Boyk has been posting some more recent eats –...

's Chicago Pizzeria As for your list, it looks pretty good to me so far, though Saffron isn’t really a good Thai place. Not sure what to recommend for Thai. When I used to work in Kearny Mesa, we'd sometimes go to this...