GROUNDED COFFEE BAR (Fremont, CA) - I already knew about two hipster coffee shops in Fremont (Slap Face and Devout), so when I came across Grounded Coffee through social media, I was really intrigued. They don't seem to have a large following on Instagram or a ton of Yelp reviews yet, so I dared to [...]
Growing up in the Bay Area, I assume that I’ve seen everything there is to see here. But it turns out I know nothing (Jon Snow). I feel like I've spent so much time in the same parts of San Francisco or Berkeley or Palo Alto that there's cities I've never been to - like [...]
BARTAVELLE COFFEE & WINE BAR (Berkeley, CA) - Bartavelle opened during my final semester of college, and I was super pumped to see a coffee place that had a parking lot! That is a rarity in Berkeley. Except, I never ended up making it out there, so it's been on my list for awhile. Several [...]
HOMEROOM (Oakland, CA) - It only took me a million years, but I finally made it out to Oakland to try Homeroom! It’s been on my list for a long time, and I really hoped it lived up to the hype. And it did. I headed out there on a Saturday afternoon, and hoped that the line [...]
CURBSIDE CREAMERY (Oakland, CA) - What better way to commemorate Father's Day than with ice cream? Growing up, my dad would often take my sister and I out to ice cream, especially when we would spend the day with him at work in Berkeley. While I've gotten more adventurous in my flavors, he's stuck by [...]
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