THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Cafe Fanny

Bringing a deliciously sensible touch of Europe to Berkeley, Alice Waters’ Café Fanny is situated on a busy street corner between Acme Bread Co. and Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, serving bread from one and wine from the other.
Café Fanny is a place where people in a hurry can mix with those who wish to linger, eat simply prepared yet superb food. Café au lait and toast in the morning, fresh...

This is a stand-up bar in more ways than one. First, it the understated relative of Alice Waters' refined Chez Panisse. In other words, quality ingredients have been culled from the best purveyors in the Bay Area and brought to the zinc countertop for everyone's dining pleasure. Second, there are no seats or tables inside the narrow, stark space. Outside, overflowing into the tiny parking lot,...

Alice Waters's (of Chez Panisse fame) cafe is one of those local must-do East Bay breakfast traditions. Don your Birkenstocks and earth-tone apparel, grab the morning paper, and head here to wait in line for a simple yet masterfully prepared French breakfast. The menu offers such items as soft-boiled farm-fresh eggs on Levain toast, buckwheat crepes with house-made preserves, cinnamon toast,...