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Italian Homemade is a nice Italian eatery that lets you customize your pasta bowl in the Elmwood neighborhood of Berkeley. It favors homey, elegant bowls of pasta.
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Marcella's Lasagneria is a small restaurant devoted to top-quality lasagna and other pasta dishes in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. You can't beat this taste and texture!
Lucia's is not to be overlooked! It's a higher-end Italian eatery featuring pizza, pasta, and other Italian classics un downtown Berkeley.
Cafe Chiave cafe devoted to coffee and Italian-American comfort food near San Pablo and Dwight Way in Berkeley (also available in Oakland). It's yummy and satisfying every time.
Bobby G's Pizzeria is exactly what a college town like Berkeley needs: a reliable place to get cheap but yummy pizza near downtown Berkeley! It's hard to beat the connivence and the price, and the flavor hits every time.
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State Flour Pizza is a simple, laid-back, and private place to eat great pizza in Berkeley. The menu is extensive enough to have a pizza for almost anyone. It even features a focaccia-like gluten-free crust.
Japanese Food
Matsuyama Shabu House is a hidden gem that specializes in shabu shabu, the Japanese traditional hot pot dish and is a highlight of Japantown. The eating experience is worth trying, and the food tastes incredible!
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Kansai is a sit-down restaurant in Oakland where you can order a number of classic and specialty rolls as well as their take on many other Japanese dishes, one that always hits the spot and has a special happy hour sale. We are always coming back for more!
Sushi Arashi is a high quality restaurant in Mountain View with very fresh sushi and sashimi. It has traditional, savory, and umami vibes.
Chinese Food
Zhangliang Malatang is a casual make-your-own-hot-pot place in several locations in the Bay Area including places like Berkeley and Mountain View. I love selecting my own hot pot ingredients and choosing my ideal spiciness!
Fu Lam Mum is a relatively fancier Chinese restaurant that specializes in delicious food, served in its elegant dining room. It's a fine dining experience available in downtown Mountain View.
Seasons Noodles & Dumplings Garden
Seasons Noodles and Dumplings Garden is a somewhat casual place to get Chinese dumplings and noodles in downtown Mountain View. These dumplings are hard to beat!
Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant is a luxurious Chinese restaurant with fresh seafood and an incredible view from its dining room. It is a fine dining experience, but you get what you pay for!
Thai Food
The Noodle is a personal favorite of my family. Here, you can get incredible Thai food with fast service and reasonable prices. It's located in downtown Berkeley, where it draws a steady stream of loyal customers like us. The service is very fast and polite, and the quality is high!
Anchalee boasts a tasteful selection of Thai dishes served in a small but elegant dining area. It's a more upscale Thai option available in Berkeley.
Imm Thai is a popular Thai spot specializes in "no-frills" but yummy Thai food. Open late and always busy!
Bua Thai Kitchen, located in Albany, has a surprisingly pretty interior and serves inexpensive Thai favorites with excellent service.
American Food
Steamer Lane Supply is a stand near the beach in Santa Cruz that serves great burgers, hot dogs, and fish tacos, among other wonderful munchies
Endless Summer Sweets is a small shop along Shattuck in Berkeley featuring all sorts of nostalgic summertime favorites like milkshakes, kettle corn, ice cream, and corn dogs. Great for kids and kids at heart!
Original Pollo is a down-to-earth American diner in downtown Berkeley with good, inexpensive food. It gives off nostalgic, old-fashioned vibes. The food quality is rock solid.
Beach Chatlet fancier restaurant with high-end food and a view of the beach. You pay extra for a phenomenal eating experience.
In the Wood is a casual eatery in the Elmwood neighborhood of Berkeley serving American favorites like burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas. Salty, savory, and satisfying.
Barneys is a sit-down restaurant that specializes in gourmet burgers and fries in downtown Berkeley. They also have fantastic milk shakes! These are some of the best burgers in Berkeley; I find them hard to resisit!
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Eureka is a sit-down restaurant that brings out some of the tastiest, most elaborate burgers with convenient locations in places like downtown Mountain View and downtown Berkeley.
Best Fast Food Burgers
Gott's is a premium spin on the classic fast-food burger. Simple, satisfying, and crave-worthy, these burgers always hit the spot.
In-N-Out is the California fast food classic that keeps it simple, elegant, and satisfying! For an incredible price, you get a burger experience that is hard to beat! It's hard to get enough of the few menu items they specialize in.
Mel's Express is a chain with inexpensive but yummy burgers and shakes. A very good burger for an unbeatable price!
IniBurger serves delicious, reasonably priced, and satisfying fast food burgers. Love at first bite!
Gott's is a premium spin on the classic fast-food burger. Simple, satisfying, and crave-worthy, these burgers always hit the spot.
In-N-Out is the California fast food classic that keeps it simple, elegant, and satisfying! For an incredible price, you get a burger experience that is hard to beat! It's hard to get enough of the few menu items they specialize in.
Mel's Express is a chain with inexpensive but yummy burgers and shakes. A very good burger for an unbeatable price!
IniBurger serves delicious, reasonably priced, and satisfying fast food burgers. Love at first bite!
The Melt serves fast food burgers made with cheesy, gooey, yummy goodness! These burgers are slightly cheesier and more sophisticated fast food burgers.
The Melt serves fast food burgers made with cheesy, gooey, yummy goodness! These burgers are slightly cheesier and more sophisticated fast food burgers.
Burgerim is an amazing place to get a cheap but gourmet burger. It's a chain that operates in Berkeley on University Avenue. The fat, juicy burgers and crispy, thick-cut fries make an excellent combo.
Sandwiches
Crave Subs has a menu that offers a variety of elaborate meat, vegetarian, and vegan subs that will quench your hunger in downtown Berkeley along Shattuck. These sandwiches are expertly crafted and addictive.
Ike's has almost an endless supply of options of satisfying, craveworthty subs! The chain has several locations, including downtown Berkeley, along Shattuck Avenue.
Cafes and Coffee shops
Cafe Etoile is a cute cafe that takes a fascinating spin on French and Korean cuisine, serving coffee, pastries, and full meals along Martin Luther King. It is a must-try, one of the most well-known and signature cafes in Berkeley!
Homemade Cafe is an inexpensive Southern-hospitality-inspired diner on Sacramento, across the street from Helacio's. It tastes home-cooked and comforting and costs relatively little.
As the name suggests, Penelope's Coffee and Tea serves lots of coffee and tea, but it also specializes in delicious breakfasts. Located along Shattuck in Berkeley, this sleek, elegant cafe has a ton of DELICIOUS menu items.
Way Station Brew is a restaurant, cafe, and beer garden with a mysterious kind of vibe on Dwight Way. The coffee is good, and it's a nice place to work.
Espresso Roma Cafe is a cross between a casual restaurant and coffee shop that serves eggs, sandwiches, soups, burgers, breakfast burritos, and salads as well as a variety of coffee and tea options on Hopkins Street in northern Berkeley. It is comfortable, affordable, and tasty.
Roast and Toast is a lovely cafe with coffee and ice cream in downtown Berkeley along Shattuck. It takes a slightly different on the old classic of a yummy coffee shop.
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Peet's Coffee (also a popular chain) is a classic, safe bet if you're looking for a nice cup of coffee, a pastry, or a breakfast sandwich. It's reliably tasty every time.
Coupa Cafe i s another cross between coffee shop and sit-down restaurant, this chain serves coffee, pastries, smoothies, desserts, and full-fledged breakfast options alongside salads, crepes, paninis, wraps, and burgers and is active in the Bay Area. I'm in love with this cafe.
My Coffee Roastery is a quaint coffee shop that looks like a cottage sticks to the basics. Located along Martin Luther King, you'll get an incredibly high-quality cup of coffee here.
Berkeley Espresso is a relaxing coffee shop with a lot of options along Shattuck. They keep things simple and affordable, so I keep coming back.
Royal Ground Coffee is another chain active in the Bay Area that sells a variety of pastries, coffee, tea, espresso, and hot chocolate drinks as well as a menu of twenty sandwiches. Here, the coffee is good, but the sandwiches are the star of the show....
Blue Bottle Coffee is coffee shop that is sleek, elegant, and classy as well as delicious with locations in Berkeley and Oakland, among others. It's an unbeatable coffee shop environment with good food and drink.
The Coffee Hut is a simple coffee stand in downtown Berkeley along Shattuck that is not to be overlooked because whips out great beverages and pastries!
Gold Bean Cafe is a clean, quiet, and modern place to enjoy a wide selection of drinks and sweet snacks on Durant Avenue in Berkeley.
Bench Cafe is simple cafe that serves only coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and pastries. Located on Martin Luther King in Berkeley, this cafe is unique but understated.
Cafenated Coffee is a relaxed and comfortable place in Berkeley to stay a while and have some good sandwiches, pastries, and coffee. It's interesting and sophisticated, and the menu items are equally fascinating.
Irish Food
Mediterranean Food
Rojbas is a wonderful place in Berkeley to enjoy delicious Mediterranean food for a reasonable, low price. This one is a personal favorite!
Tibetan Food
Korean Food
Desserts
Bakery
Mariposa is an Oakland bakery devoted to gluten-free items. Come here for bread, pastries, pasta, and more! You'll never guess from the taste that the items are all gluten-free...
Cupcakin' is a chain that specializes in a variety of gourmet cupcakes, baked fresh each day. Sweet, sophisticated, and delicious, these treats are memorable and scrumptious.
Masse's Pastries is a small European-style bakery featuring exquisite breakfast pastries, cookies, and macaroons in Berkeley. You owe it to yourself to try it at least once!
Dessert N Spice is a luxurious small bakery that also serves coffee in Berkeley. The desserts here are next-level! Try the cookies and the carrot cake...
Ice cream
Salt and Straw is a fantastic chain that is a real find! It features gourmet flavors--and free samples, as many as you like. You'll want to be back for more!
Cruz Creamery is a yummy and comfy ice cream shop in Santa Cruz. You'll probably like it as much as I do!
These are some of my personal favorite places to go in the Bay Area. Am I missing something on this list? Please let me know in the comments!
Cool shops:
Three Stone Hearth is a Berkeley market devoted to providing the healthiest options, located along University!
Talavera Ceramics and Tile is a much-loved Berkeley shop selling artistic Mexican-import tiles and ceramics along University, near Three Stone Hearth.
The Curiosity Shop is a fun shopping experience full of odds and ends in a small shop along Martin Luther King in Berkeley. Cute, interesting, and eccentric, this shop will provoke your curiosity!
Thrifty Cat is a thrift store with intentionally low prices with the hopes of making clothing more affordable along Martin Luther King in Berkeley
Museums:
A museum in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco with interesting rotating art exhibits and a great gift shop! Watch for free days!
Winchester Mystery House is a well-preserved eclectic mansion in San Jose that is rumored to be haunted. Historical, fascinating, beautiful, haunting, and perhaps haunted, a tour of this mansion will stick with you.
Plant stores:
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Dig Gardens is an extensive Santa Cruz plant shop that also sells cute gifts.
Summer Winds Nursery is a cool chain with locations in the Bay Area that feature a ton of wonderful plants. The selection is very extensive, and the staff are knowledgeable!
Parks:
Cesar Chavez Park has several trails with some of the best views of the bay from along the Berkeley Marina! You can see the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Richmond Bridge from this park, plus the cities of San Francisco, Richmond, and Berkeley.
Other attractions:
Ghiradelli Square is must-see in the middle of San Francisco. Buy some of the world's best chocolate or enjoy another one of the fun attractions!
The tool library is a great resource for borrowing tools near Grove Park in Berkeley. It's a great concept that can really come in handy.
These are the places I wanted to share with you. Are there others I should include? Please tell me in the comments.
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