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Wikipedia[1] gives the year only - Waters "opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with the film producer Paul Aratow" - so the pin sits on that year's last day.- Start
- Dec 31, 197175% CONFIDENCEen.wikipedia.org
Alice Waters Opens Chez Panisse in Berkeley
Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with the film producer Paul Aratow, in a house on Shattuck Avenue, and in doing so more or less founded what came to be called California cuisine: a short menu set by what the farms around the bay had that week rather than by a fixed carte. The block it stands on is now known as the Gourmet Ghetto.
- Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse on 28 August 1971 with film producer Paul Aratow in an old house on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, now 1517 Shattuck Avenue.[1][4]
- The name comes from Honore Panisse in Marcel Pagnol's Marseille trilogy.[1]
- It has a downstairs dining room with one fixed menu that changes daily and an upstairs cafe with cheaper a la carte dishes.[1]
- The founding idea was fresh, seasonal, local and organic food, bought directly from farmers, ranchers and dairies.[1][4]
- Gourmet named it Best Restaurant in America in 2001; it held one Michelin star from 2006 to 2009 and reached number 12 on Restaurant Magazine's list in 2003.[1]
- Alumni include Jeremiah Tower, Dan Barber, April Bloomfield and Samin Nosrat, and the building was rebuilt after fires in 1982 and 2013.[1]