Exploring Gourmet Ghetto in Berkeley, California USA Walking Tour

Exploration To Go takes you on a walking tour through Gourmet Ghetto in Downtown Berkeley, California USA in stunning 4K UHD at 60 fps (there is no music in the video so that viewers will get to experience the background sounds and noises that goes on during the tour). The Gourmet Ghetto was a colloquial name for the business district of the North Berkeley neighborhood in the city of Berkeley, California, known as the birthplace of California cuisine.
Other developments that can be traced to this neighborhood include specialty coffee, the farm-to-table and local food movements, the rise to popularity in the U.S. of chocolate truffles and baguettes, the popularization of the premium restaurant designed around an open kitchen, and the California pizza made with local produce.
The business district, also known as Gourmet Gulch, is sometimes more formally referred to as "North Shattuck." After coalescing in the mid-1970s as a culinary destination, the neighborhood received its "Gourmet Ghetto" nickname in the late 1970s from comedian Darryl Henriques. Early, founding influences were Peet's Coffee, Chez Panisse and the Cheese Board Collective. Alice Medrich began her chain of Cocolat chocolate stores there.
The neighborhood, anchored by Alice Waters' Chez Panisse, became the center of farm-to-table food sourcing, using selected locally grown produce, especially naturally and sustainably grown-preferably organic-ingredients. Waters and a loosely organized left-leaning coterie of friends and colleagues actively promoted the idea of socially conscious eating. Many former staff at Chez Panisse have gone on to start their own restaurants, bakeries, and food shops in the wider San Francisco Bay Area.
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00:00 - Intro to {destination}, United States
00:20 - Shattuck Avenue Northbound
07:05 - Epicurous Garden - Gourmet Food Hall
12:44 - Shattuck Avenue Southbound
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[@rhodamiller7338]

Oh my. So much change in 25 years. I arrived in Berkeley in 1961 and left in 1995. The term Gourmet Ghetto used to refer to the area around Shattuck between Cedar and Vine. Peet’s , Pig by the Tail, Cocolat, Sauls, The Cheese Board, and the Co-Op. I have a menu from Chez Panisse from the early 70’s charging 7.50 for a three course dinner.

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We would love to cover all of those restaurants individually. Hopefully in 2023. Thanks for the comment by the way, really appreciate it :)

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