Los Angeles Times

Chez Panisse reimagined the way we eat. After 50 years, is that enough?

On Aug. 28, 1971, a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher named Alice Waters opened a restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Waters had studied abroad in France six years earlier and, back home, ...
Los Angeles Times

Chez Panisse alums changed the way we eat, cook and conceptualize food and farming

Chez Panisse and its founder, Alice Waters, helped forge a new path for — and awareness of — what seasonal cooking can be, thanks to her dedication to local farmers and organic agriculture. She ...
SFGate

Chez Panisse spinoff only has 14 Yelp reviews and no press. It's still mobbed.

Bar Panisse, Alice Waters’ new restaurant next to her famed Chez Panisse, opened quietly in December — unusual for a Berkeley spot with such a legacy. That may have been partly due to the controversy ...
New York Post

Chez Fifi’s is one of NYC’s most impossible reservations — and it’s actually worth the hassle

Forget SoHo’s always booked-up Corner Store. The city’s hottest restaurant — and the hardest to get into — is miles uptown on staid East 74th Street. Chez Fifi has been the toughest ticket since it ...
SFGate

Housemade: Legend of the Chez Panisse fruit bowl explained

Welcome to Housemade, a Chronicle column by culinary scientist Ali Bouzari. Here, we will take diners on a guided tour of the silent science, brilliant ideas and awesome techniques behind your ...