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