Partner Love: Downtown Berkeley
Angeline’s jambalaya: A warm bowl of comfort during uncertain times.
Here’s a rundown on what our Downtown Berkeley Brunch Tour partners are doing right now. If you’re in a position to support these businesses, they could use all the love we can give them. —Lisa
Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen: Open for takeout gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans & rice. Also selling basic pantry items from flour, eggs and yeast to TP, paper towel and bleach.
Babette Cafe: Temporarily closed due to SIP. Owners Joan Ellis & Patrick Hooker are starting home-delivery meals soon. Check the website or email babettebam@gmail.com for details.
Comal & Comal Next Door: Open for burritos, tacos, tortas & more. Pickup or delivery via Caviar.
Gather: Temporarily closed during SIP.
Revival Bar & Kitchen: Open for takeout or delivery for fried chicken, duck confit, pizza & more.
Shout out to alum The Butcher's Son (the vegan deli is open for takeout).
Amy Murray, chef/owner of Revival Bar + Kitchen, doing double duty serving community members in need through Double Helping Hands. Image: John Caner
This week in pandemic picks: Visit the Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA) for the latest COVID-related business & service updates and for quarantine entertainment ideas. Support Double Helping Hands, a program that provides to-go meals to Berkeley’s homeless community. It’s sponsored by The Dorothy Day House Berkeley Community Resource Center and DBA, which has partnered with local restaurants Cornerstone Berkeley, Jazz Caffè and ACT Catering, La Note, and Revival to feed people in need. Donate to or volunteer for East Bay FeedER’s efforts to feed frontline hospital workers. Participating downtown Berkeley restaurants include La Note and Revival.
Partner recipes to add to your repertoire: Get the scoop on Comal’s guacamole., courtesy of chef Matt Gandin. Make Gather’s quintessential kale salad. Try this refreshing rhubarb grapefruit soda from the Revival bar crew.
Sign up for our COVID-19 Quarantine Cocktail Classes, in partnership with top mixologist Dolly Valdez Bautista of Hawker Fare in San Francisco. Cheers!
