"Alex Chaihorsky" > writes:

> Our good friend Roy Fong of Imperial Tea Court of San Francisco, CA just
> opened a new place in Berkeley at 1511 Shattuck.
> As opposed to his tearoom at Powell and Broadway in SF, this has an open
> space place, a garden inside. Epicurious Garden is a collection of several
> gourme places. ITC is just one of them.
> http://epicuriousgarden.com/index.html
> If I understood him right they will also be serving very "chinese" chinese
> food there shortly. I hope that the pot stench that permeates the vicinity
> of the campus will spare the delicate interiors of the wenxianbeis.

Hmm, how recently have you been to Berkeley? I spent a few hours
wandering the campus early last November and found it pretty tame.
The biggest crowd on Sproul Plaza was for the Young Republicans. I
didn't smell anything, uh, amiss either on campus or during several
walks on Shattuck.

/Lew
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