Two words: Vegan chicken. Now before you go running in the other direction, hear me out. I made my way down to Shattuck and Haste this week and dined at Herbivore – The Earthly Grill with two new food critics in my company. They are both avid carnivores but were willing to try something new, [...]

Organic, home-cooked vegetarian cuisine sits atop PETA-postered tables, tattooed arms reach over pink vinyl booths, local artwork finds its way over glittery walls, kids twirl on barstools and couples laugh as they share organic fair-trade coffee shakes. Berkeley, meet Saturn Café. If you haven’t been already, the spacey Saturn Café on the corner of Allston [...]

Did the word “yuck” just pop into your head? How about “gross”? “Never in a million stats 21 classes!”? Just yesterday morning, I would have expressed exactly the same sentiments. Until lunchtime, that is, when I walked into the Berkeley Student Food Collective and experienced the most amazing chocolate euphoria. Waiting in the top left [...]