All You Can Eat: Cafes We Love, Cafes We’ve Lost

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Berkeley landmark coffee shop and diner Au Coquelet closed recently, joining other iconic East Bay cafe closures, including Berkeley’s iconic Caffe Mediterraneum. In a somber comic remembering coffee shops we’ve lost, graphic novelist Briana Loewinsohn reminisces that, “[w]hat I covet most are the big, spacious cafes where you could sit for hours and work or do nothing — or a little of both.” In this edition of our ongoing series, “All You Can Eat,” we talk about what makes a great cafe, their role as crucial, low-barrier community meeting spaces and hear about your most beloved Bay Area coffee. Related link(s) “Please, Don’t Forget Me: Cafes We Have Lost,” a comic strip by Briana Loewinsohn Guests: Henri Boulanger, barista trainer, Red Rock Coffee Creighton Davis, co-founder, Kinfolx Briana Loewinsohn, graphic novelist; high school art teacher; author of "Please, Don't Forget Me: Cafes We Have Lost" - a comic about now-shuttered cafes in the East Bay Luke Tsai, food editor, KQED Arts & Culture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:59.6	A coffee shop can do more than make a neighborhood.
1:02.1	It can define your whole experience of a city.
1:05.3	Berkeley, for example, has had some legendary coffee shops like Cafe Med,
1:10.2	which graphic novelist Brianna Lowenson recently eulogized in a comic on KQED.org.
1:16.1	She joins us along with Luke Sy and a couple of cafe owners for this latest edition of All You Can Eat,
1:21.9	where we team with the KQED food team to cover our Bay Area food cultures.
1:26.6	We'll talk about what makes a great cafe, whether they're on the decline, and we'll hear
1:30.6	about your favorite coffee shops and what makes them your spot in the city.
1:35.6	That's all coming up next right after this news.
1:47.8	Welcome to Forum.
1:49.2	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:52.4	And of course, this is also all you can eat,
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