After my Cafe Milano post yesterday, I got some great comments that took me north of the Berkeley campus. (First, I stopped at Peet’s on Telegraph so I had the requisite amount of caffeine to be able to walk from the south of campus to the north.)
One comment suggested Nefeli Caffe. Comment 7/33 on yelp offered up the blandishment of seeing sexy Europeans sipping coffee after a hard night of posing. I was not sure I would fit in but thought I would enjoy it anyway. In typical European fashion, Nefeli was closed. Europeans don’t like getting up too early on a Saturday, or speaking for myself as a pseudo-European, any other day. Brewed Awakenings, on the other hand, seems to be run by hard-working Middle Eastern immigrants and is open. It has free wifi. Quiet classical music in the background. Very few people. Good coffee and good almond croissant. And a great place to hang out and BS. Ideal for research I would say. This is my first stop on future visits to Berkeley. Ariel Rubinstein and Shachar Kariv have great taste.
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March 6, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Michael Turner
Ah, bad news — Nefeli was wonderful, a grace note on what was already one of Berkeley’s more charming mini-districts. Its owners once had a very good restaurant , Odyssia, at the corner of Hearst & Shattuck, which was unfortunately replaced by one featuring a distinctly inferior menu and ambience.
March 21, 2014 at 8:15 pm
RamaNax
I always enjoy Seth’s insihgts as a breath of fresh air especially with CBS embracing people like Billy Packer, whose over-stated commentary got old quickly then his replacement Clark Kellogg’s his faux-Clyde routine One of the things Seth conveniently forgets is that some of the cupcake games are regionally politically correct I think that UCONN being on the bubble might be more of a reality with Coach Calhoun’s medical leave of absence Coach Blainey was a genius hire but he’s not Coach Calhoun I am hoping the American Sports Vatican (aka Notre Dame) falls off that bubble they need to establish a reputation of athletic excellence, not just a memory of the Digger Days !!!Glad to see someone speaking nationally about Da Hall and I agree with his evalaution !!!Lastly, I certainly hope Duke’s Singler stays for his senior year it will help the team and recognize that he’s not an NBA calibre player now and might never be