Cafe Ohlone
Restaurant · Telegraph Avenue ·
Ohlone cuisine and culture, locally foraged ingredients, storytelling
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Bancroft Way &, College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 Get directions
Ohlone cuisine and culture, locally foraged ingredients, storytelling
Bancroft Way &, College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 Get directions
"A Berkeley restaurant offering decolonized Indigenous cuisine that explicitly links its dishes to the struggle for food sovereignty and the reclamation of native ingredients; it’s presented as an example of how a restaurant can tell a community’s history and resistance through food." - Nylah Iqbal Muhammad
"Cafe Ohlone is on a hiatus until mid-January. They’ll release the next reservations on December 15. Cafe Ohlone is run out of the Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley, and is the only Ohlone restaurant in the world. The cafe celebrates the life and culture of Ohlone peoples, in a space designed with native plants that are incorporated into the meal, trees with speakers that sing in Chochenyo language, and murals from Indigenous artists. The food itself incorporates ingredients historically found in the area, such as San Francisco Bay dungeness crab, Olympia oysters, and black oak acorns. Cafe Ohlone does weekly tea hours, lunches, dinners, and brunches, but you’ll need to purchase your ticket in advance." - anne cruz
"Founded by Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino out of the mak-‘amham initiative to preserve Ohlone cuisine and language, this cafe—now located outside UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum—offers a beautiful patio surrounded by a garden of yerba buena, hummingbird sage, and artemisia and serves seasonal Ohlone dishes at special events and a few private lunches from spring through November; reservations sell out fast." - Andrea Cooper, Mae Hamilton
"Cafe Ohlone is on a hiatus until mid-January. They’ll release the next reservations on December 15. Cafe Ohlone is run out of the Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley, and is the only Ohlone restaurant in the world. The cafe celebrates the life and culture of Ohlone peoples, in a space designed with native plants that are incorporated into the meal, trees with speakers that sing in Chochenyo language, and murals from Indigenous artists. The food itself incorporates ingredients historically found in the area, such as San Francisco Bay dungeness crab, Olympia oysters, and black oak acorns. Cafe Ohlone does weekly tea hours, lunches, dinners, and brunches, but you’ll need to purchase your ticket in advance. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation
"When it relaunched at its UC Berkeley space, Cafe Ohlone functioned not only as a place to eat but also to learn Ohlone culinary traditions and to reflect on the university’s role in causing the tribe to lose federal recognition; that relaunch was part of a one-year pilot in which co-owners Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino plated Ohlone dishes in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology courtyard before the pop-up shut down this past May. I learned it's set to make a comeback: Medina, Trevino, and general manager Deirdre Greene have been hired by the Lawrence Hall of Science to permanently continue the Cafe Ohlone space and to launch other initiatives (including an upcoming virtual-reality exhibit), with those positions funded by income from Cafe Ohlone and support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the cafe is slated to reopen in March 2024 on a seasonal schedule that will close during rainy winter months." - Dianne de Guzman