Sweet Adeline: 3350 Adeline Street, Berkeley
Sweet Adeline is a new (a mere 3 months old) bakery near the intersection of Adeline, Stanford & MLK. It's good!
i stopped in this AM for the first time & was pleased. they serve organic coffee, have raw sugar as an option, and the pastry? excellent!
those that know me well know that i'm a pastry snob (i moved to the bay area to be a pastry chef, and apprenticed at the Mark Hopkins in SF). so i can be very critical about basked goods. but sweet adeline delivers.
they offer savory pastries, sweet pastries, and breads. all was fresh and made with top quailty ingredients. a worker (possibly an owner) answered questions from the person ahead of me about what apples she uses in the turnovers. "right now, granny smith. in the fall we use graventstien, grown in sepastopol." good answer!
i'll be going back!
bookstores are wonderful places, and independent book stores are even more so! the east bay has plenty of great indie bookstores.
my four fave books stores in the East Bay are:
1. A Great Good Place For Books, 6120 La Salle Avenue, Montclair District.
when i first walked in, i was greeted by the owner. she was one of those people that was helpful without being pushy. she asked about my lit preferences, and was able to recommend some great titles that i hadn't read based on who i liked. she is also one of the people working on "West Coast Live" (a public radio program), so she gets great authors coming through the area to read there.
2. Pegasus/Pendragon Books:
(3 East Bay Locations)-
2349 Shattuck Avenue, (Berkeley, Downtown)
5560 College Avenue, (Oakland, Rockridge)
1855 Solano Avenue, (Albany, Solano Stroll)
i love this independent mini-chain for several reasons: knowledgable staff, excellent recommendations, cheap book tables (great gift store!), and their annial calendar sale. (wait til Jan 1st to get the new year's calendar & you'll save save save! it's an east bay tradition to shop for calendars on Jan 1st here!)
3.
5433 College Avenue, Oakland (Rockridge)
the sections are comprehensive, the recommendations superb, and the store is spacious. i have seen so many great authors pass through here on their tours- Sherman Alexie was a fave.
To a mailing list I'm on, this AP article was sent:
An East Bay transit agency plans to install free wireless Internet
service on select buses beginning this fall.AC Transit expects to equip half its fleet of transbay buses, about 40
that focus on commuters and rush-hour riders, with WiFi access, said
agency spokesman Clarence Thomas.The push came from the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency's
East Bay Smart Corridors program, which coordinates with 25 agencies
to improve transit systems."We want professionals, those with laptops, traveling through the bay
to have better use of their time, rather than looking at traffic,"
said Cyrus Minoofar, the program's project manager.Under the plan, the buses would be equipped with small boxes that
convert existing cellular phone networks into WiFi that riders can
access with their laptops, as if they were sitting at a desk.Users could read e-mail and browse the Internet.
A proposed three-year grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District would pay for the service, expected to cost between $60 to
$75 per bus per month. The grant has yet to be finalized.The agency runs 27 lines that cross the bay, with services connecting
Oakland to San Francisco, Hayward and San Mateo, and Fremont and Palo
Alto.