Caffe Mediterraneum

Berkeley’s “so-called chess club” has quickly become an essential community pillar, where people from all walks of life, socioeconomic status, race and age, can come together and bond over a game of chess. 

After its soft opening Saturday, Boileroom — a restaurant offering both Taiwanese hot pot and rolled ice cream — will formally open Jan. 25.

I’m not going to tell you what legacy to believe in, but I found mine in the millenium pop and JNCO jeans of “Boys and Girls.”

After months of vacancy at the historic Caffe Mediterraneum on 2475 Telegraph Ave., a new restaurant is set to open called “Boileroom.”

After 60 years of service to the Berkeley community, Caffe Mediterraneum — a historic center of counterculture movements — will be changing ownership.

Poke Parlor, an upcoming restaurant that will sell poke bowls and other fish dishes, will replace the vacancy left by smoke shop Gypsy Trader on Telegraph Avenue.

A multi-use venue will soon bring life to an abandoned corner of Telegraph Avenue that has lain unused for over a decade.

Telegraph Avenue’s Caffe Mediterraneum, bracketed between Amoeba Music and Shakespeare & Company Books, is officially up for lease with a purchase component following the owner’s desire for a change in management hands.

Slightly more than a year after the failure of a controversial sit-lie measure, many advocates and opponents of the measure can agree on at least one thing: there has been slow progress on homelessness in Berkeley.