Early this morning, sometime between 1 and 3 a.m., a fire broke out at one of the world's best-known restaurants, the iconic Chez Panisse (1517 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley). It is the second fire at the restaurant, which was founded in 1971 by Alice Waters. The destruction is less severe than that caused [...]
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