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Whether you’re already cuffed or still searching for the one, here is a list of date spots around town to truly impress that special somebody in your life.
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Good food is the key to everyone’s heart. That’s why you need to put special consideration into where you take your sweetie on Valentine’s Day.
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Oscar Castaneda, a cook at Downtown Berkeley restaurant Comal, was attacked, shot and robbed Aug. 11 near the Ashby BART station.
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After weeks of protests by animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere, or DXE, since April, The Local Butcher Shop on Shattuck Avenue ceded to demands of DXE protesters, namely by posting a sign on the business’s window reading, “Attention: Animals’ lives are their right. Killing them is violent and unjust, no matter how it’s done.”
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Phil’s Sliders on 2024 Shattuck Avenue will be closing its doors July 1 after six years in business, according to restaurant owner Hugh Groman. Neighboring modern Mexican restaurant Comal will move into the space.
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Multiple Bay Area businesses have responded to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration executive order in the past few weeks.
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The Advocate, a Mediterranean-influenced Californian restaurant in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood, will close Oct. 27 after just 15 months in operation, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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Five restaurants in the Bay Area are planning to substitute tipping with a 20 percent service charge that would automatically be added bills and eliminate other gratuities, in the wake of minimum wage increases in a number of cities.
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Comal is one of the few gourmet Mexican restaurants in Berkeley. At first, it seems like a small, cozy restaurant, but it expands into a large, 170-seat escape once you enter. Its mood lighting and polished wood-color theme give it an atmosphere like that of an upscale bar, though it is
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Are your parents coming to visit? Do you want to show them the famous Berkeley cuisine and not the $5.99 pizza you order from Domino’s? Are you excited to explore restaurants that you can only afford when there’s an adult picking up the tab? Maybe you’re simply ready to eat
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