SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopens For First Time In Two Years; Small Protest Greets Them From Next Door César Tuesday night marked the first night of service in almost exactly two years for Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Cafe, but the occasion was slightly marred by a demonstration next door from staff and customers of tapas bar César, which is being forced out of its lease by Chez Panisse.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Is Delaying Reopening Until Next Year Berkeley's landmark restaurant Chez Panisse has decided not to reopen its dining room next month as planned, but is putting off a full reopening until next year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Opening a New Restaurant... In LA Along with longtime Chez Panisse chef and NY Times contributor David Tanis, Alice Waters is taking on her first new restaurant project since Cafe Fanny closed almost a decade ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Lawsuit Against Insurer Who Denied Pandemic Claim Could Become National Case Earlier this week, iconic Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse filed suit against its insurance company for denying a vital interruption-of-business claim. Founder and owner Alice Waters says she wouldn't be going to court unless this were a serious matter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Having A Yard Sale At Chez Panisse This Sunday Alice Waters and her daughter Fanny Singer have been doing some spring cleaning, apparently, and they're having a "mother-daughter flea market" in the Chez Panisse parking lot this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Drops a Doozy of a Review of Chez Panisse, Calls It 'Stale' I actually called it wrong yesterday when I said the chances of a take-down review of Chez Panisse from the Chronicle's new food critic were "slim to none." Oh, she went there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Debuts Long-Awaited Memoir, 'Coming To My Senses' Berkeley's grande dame of local eating, sustainability and Cal-Med cuisine, Alice Waters, has as of today released her first memoir, titled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. The book
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse To Lose Longtime Chef Cal Peternell In July After 22 years in the kitchen at Berkeley's landmark of California cuisine, Chez Panisse, chef Cal Peternell is leaving his post in the downstairs restaurant kitchen effective July 5. Peternell tells Inside Scoop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Activists Storm Chez Panisse In Very Berkeley Protest At the end of August, animals rights group Direct Action Everywhere took up their cause at Eat Drink SF, a San Francisco food festival organized by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. While animal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Icons Included In New Book About Ten Most Influential Restaurants In The US While the Bay Area has seen a renaissance of a sort in our food scene over the last five to ten years, our bigger-picture influence on the way America eats can be traced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters To Get Special Medal From President Obama Next Week I am so honored to accept the National Humanities Medal from @POTUS Watch live 9/10 @ 3pm EDT http://t.co/Pw13DCNd70 pic.twitter.com/oT3xyhelKM— Alice Waters (@AliceWaters) September 3, 2015 Food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Our Food Philosopher Alice Waters Lands On TIME 100 On a list shouting the likes of Christy Turlington Burns, Robert Redford, and the ever luminous Carrie Underwood, food philosopher and Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters landed on TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Releases 'The Art Of Simple Food II' It's official. Alice Waters released The Art of Simple Food II today. Among other tidbits, the book discusses the importance of a plant's life cycle, and how it parallels with taste and cooking.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Joins Fight Against Fracking Local legend, chef, Slow Food doyenne, and restaurateur Alice Waters is helping spearhead a petition drive to get Governor Jerry Brown to end the practice of fracking in California. Fracking has been used
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopening Delayed Again; Opening Night Starts At $1,000 A Plate Local foodinistas have been eagerly awaiting the rebirth of Chez Panisse from the ashes of the small but destructive electrical fire the restaurant suffered on March 8. It was initially announced that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Delays Reopening Looking dismayed in this Contra Costa article today, Alice Waters tells us that, sadly, the re-opening of Chez Panisse will be delayed. As we reported last Friday, parts of the Shattuck Avenue mainstay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters' Iconic Chez Panisse Damaged In Fire Early Friday morning, a fire broke out at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters' noted temple of organic, locally-grown food. Fire crews responded to the scene on Shattuck Avenue around 3 a.m.
SF News Berkeley Has Bay Area's Largest Wealth Gap, Say Numbers With all the 99% vs. 1% talk flying around these days, it is important to keep a local perspective on these kinds of things. For today's perspective, the Bay Citizen offers: "In the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Panisse-Inspired Fashion, A Gavin-esque Brasserie, John's Ocean Beach Alice Waters inspires a lot of things: White House veggie gardens, edible schoolyards, general mirth, etc. — but this line of Chez Panisse-inspired fashion that popped up in the Chronicle's Sunday Style section is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patricia Curtan's 'Menus for Chez Panisse' Awes In addition to fare and fanfare, another noted Chez Panisse signifier would have to be the illustrations and printing found on their menus and cookbooks. Simple, elegant, and concise--just like the food it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, in Berkeley: Alice Waters Groupies Act Unruly, Get in Trouble Berkeley police were called to the scene on Saturday when a motley assortment of Berkeley residents gathered for a 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse at the Cheese Board Collective next door. At 10pm,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Would Like to Dress You For School, Pack You a Boxed Lunch Edible Schoolteacher Alice Waters is a charitable person, we know this because she selflessly runs her high-end locavore restaurant as a cover for her secret agenda of sneaking vegetables in to every elementary
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Tours Around, Eats at Chez Panisse Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a visit to the Bay Area yesterday and today, and apparently never left Berkeley. She seems to have been here to judge a mock court competition at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse To Serve 5,000 At Greek Theatre In today's Garchick, we learn that Chez Panisse, Berkeley's iconic joint for organic grub, plans on celebrating the big 4-0 in an even bigger way. Behold: "This year's holiday card from 'The Family
