Chez Panisse - Berkeley Restaurant

  • Address: 1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709-1516
  • Phone: +1 510 548 5525
  • Email:
  • Website:www.chezpanisse.com
Average Rating
4.5
575+ reviews
from 4 sources
Yelp
4.5
518+ reviews
Yahoo! Travel
4.0
17+ reviews
Frommers
3.0
1+ reviews
CitySearch
5.0
39+ reviews

Estimated Price: From $15

Chez Panisse
1517 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709-1516

Chez Panisse Details

Descriptions from Across the Web

  • Few restaurants are known worldwide. Welcome to the jewel in Berkeley's culinary crown, the restaurant around which the famous Gourmet Ghetto has grown. Alice Waters opened this restaurant in 1971 in the hopes of marrying the best in international culinary skills with locally produced organic ing... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • The Scene :Located upstairs in the same wood-paneled Craftsman bungalow as Chez Panisse, the Cafe is where Berkeley's literati toast their successes over rustic French- and Italian-influenced cuisine. The welcome is always warm and the burnished open kitchen, lined with glistening platters of asp... more on CitySearch
  • North Shattuck. more on VisitBerkeley.com
  • California cuisine is so much a product of Alice Waters's genius that all other restaurants following in her wake should be dated A.A.W. (After Alice Waters). Read the menus posted outside, and you'll understand why. Most of the produce and meat comes from local farms and is organically produced,... more on Frommers
  • This restaurant first opened in 1971 and expanded in 1980. They serve a fixed priced menu, which includes a three to four course meal. Fixed costs are dependent on the day of the week. Monday meals cost $45, Tuesday through Thursday's meal cost ... more on WorldWeb.com

Reviews From Across The Web read all

5.0
worth the reputation

Ate lunch at the cafe to get a reasonably priced sampling of the restaurant that's said to be the 13th-best in the world. We loved every aspect. Everything was increadibly fresh and tasty, and the waiter was able to direct us to the local suppliers of everything from bread to wine. And walking ou... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

5.0
yummy!

Chez Panisse is fresh. It's all about taking simple ingredients and making it into healthy, fun food! Alice Water is amazing. For my appetizer, I had a dungenous crab salad and it was spectacular. For the who prefer non-alcoholic beverages, I highly ... tawnyrose, a user of citysearch.com. Read full review on CitySearch

5.0
Britt B. 's review

Chez P. is just, simply put ,the best restaurant I have been to - on so many levels. It is the marker by which I judge all other restaurants. That they ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0

can be described as best meal of my life - or one of the top 5 - even with having to make reservations a month out well worth it - great service i got to tour the the kitchen - rifled thru the walk ... Dale Swann, a user of we8there.com. Read full review on We8There

4.0
Overrated

(March 06, 2008 00:00)

Food was very good but, not the greatest. If you like a fixed menu and making a resevation a month in advance and dealing with a hostest who is doing you a favor ... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

Directions

Cross Street :Vine Street

Between Cedar and Vine, Around Town

Hours

Upstairs Cafe: M-Th: 11:30a-3p, F-Sa: 11:30a-3:30p, Downstairs: 5p-10:30p

Other Web Resources

  • Read more about Chez Panisse on Yahoo! Travel
  • www.chezpanisse.com
  • http://www.visitberkeley.com
  • http://www.visitcalifornia.com

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