First Look at the New Berkeley Bowl West in the Bay Area
Seven years and $30 million in the making, Berkeley Bowl West, a younger sibling of the more than 30-year-old Berkeley Bowl (what some call the independent grocery store Promised Land) in South Berkeley, California, is finally open. According to the blog Scavenging, the deli section "could outfit every picnic in the state, and "its 16 grocery aisles resemble airport runways (for small planes, but still)." Eventually, there will also be an adjoining cafe with made-to-order dishes from the wood-fired oven and rotisserie.
Berkeley Bowl West
920 Heinz Avenue , Berkeley CA 94710 (at Eighth Street; map)
510-898-9555; berkeleybowl.com
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4 Comments:
that sounds amazing...
gastronomeg at 10:21AM on 06/08/09
Man, that makes me unbelievably jealous.
Junie at 10:45AM on 06/08/09
i worked my way through my undergrad degree at the original berkeley bowl. i still miss it!
cybercita at 11:35AM on 06/08/09
Yesterday I was picking through a bin of cherries at Berkeley Bowl, being bumped and prodded repeatedly by passing customers. As I was thinking how much I love/hate Berk Bowl another customer started up a convo with an employee about the new location. The employee was saying it is practically empty (of customers). Boy was I kicking myself!
The new one is even closer to my home!! Can't wait to visit. If it is better than the current Berk Bowl, it may actually be heaven.
KateC at 6:02PM on 06/08/09