On March 9, Cafe Fanny, the extremely popular Berkeley bistro run by celebrity restaurateur Alice Waters, unexpectedly closed its doors. "We will take care of these employees," said Waters to a ...

Chez Panisse created its own butterfly effect, changing the way Americans cook, eat and think about food. For Venu Alla, who lived near the legendary restaurant in Berkeley, that influence was ...

Allow him to explain: Huey grew up gardening and cooking with his grandmother in San Leandro. He went to college at UC San Diego, where he spent undergrad studying zoology and grad school researching ...

Since 2022, when Chez Panisse stirred up controversy over its plans to open a new restaurant right next door to its iconic Berkeley space, details on the eatery have been slim. Now, we finally have an ...

In August 1971, Vietnam was still a hot-button issue. Jim Morrison of the Doors had recently died, as did the first orca ever named Shamu. There were astronauts on the moon. Sofia Coppola and Tupac ...

How Chez Panisse redesigned fine dining—and changed how America eats Thank Alice Waters and her Berkeley, California, restaurant Chez Panisse—celebrating its 50th anniversary this year—for the farm-to ...

Chef Cal Peternell at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014.John Storey / Special to the Chronicle 2014 You might expect a former Chez Panisse chef to rocket on up ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – California’s renowned Chez Panisse restaurant is canceling all reservations for the next two weeks after a pre-dawn fire damaged the building’s exterior and dining room. The ...

In the early 1980s, when radicchio was just appearing in restaurants like Chez Panisse and Fourth Street Grill in Berkeley, I had a vegetable seed company. Le Marche Seeds International sold European ...