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Chez Panisse
Restaurant in Berkeley, California
37°52′46.49″N122°16′8.46″W / 37.8795806°N 122.2690167°W / 37.8795806; -122.2690167
Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of California cuisine and the farm-to-table movement, opened and owned by Alice Waters.
The restaurant emphasizes ingredients rather than technique and has developed a supply network of direct relationships with local farmers, ranchers and dairies.
Alice waters biography restaurant berkeley
The main restaurant, located downstairs, serves a set menu that changes daily and reflects the season's produce.[1] An upstairs cafe offers an a la carte menu at lower prices.
History
The restaurateur, author, and food activist Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with the film producer Paul Aratow, then a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
It is named for a character in Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy [fr].[2]