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Rows of cloudy jars exhaling tiny bubbles line the production kitchen at this small-batch pickle shop and weekend rice-bowl counter in Berkeley. Saturday and Sunday bring a three-course menu built around a maximalist rice bowl piled with the shop's latest ferments: kimchis, citrusy pickles, miso-braised greens. Drinks run to yuzu kombucha or warm ginger amazake. It may be the most Berkeley restaurant of all time, which is saying something.
The awards strongest first
- San Francisco Chronicle Best vegetarian and vegan restaurants in the SF Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle #59 · Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle Best Berkeley restaurants
One number, weighted & current 68
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Rice & Pickles
“the extravagant rice bowl at the center of its weekends-only three-course menu, Rice & Pickles.”
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Yuzu kombucha
“Beverages, too, are wonderfully funky, like yuzu kombucha or warm amazake, a fermented rice drink, flavored with ginger.”
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Warm amazake
“Beverages, too, are wonderfully funky, like yuzu kombucha or warm amazake, a fermented rice drink, flavored with ginger.”
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Sesame tofu
“the sesame tofu ($6) is a nutty palate reset.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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