Cafe Espresso Experience - Berkeley

What a gem! In the courtyard of the Anthropology Museum, you?ll find this charming oasis. Everything from the furniture, landscape, menu, and soundtrack are all thoughtfully procured. Afternoon tea consisted of 3 refreshing flavors of tea and 3sweet dishes. The chia seed porridge was a generous portion with a delicious flavor profile as well as texture. The toastedhazelnuts added a tasty crunch. Blackberries and gooseberries were a nice palate cleanser, and the chia seed flour brownie biteswere addictive! The black walnuts and coarse East Bay salt were a perfect combination! I?m thankful they don?t sell theseindividually otherwise I would be eating them daily. In bulk. Not only was the meal unique and delicious, we also learned someOhlone history and words as well as heard some lovely songs and spoken word that were pre-recorded. It?s such a nice experienceand so much more than just food and drinks!

We were thrilled to see that Cafe Ohlone was open for tawwa-sii/(evening tea) the evening we were driving in from the South Bay to see a band at the freight salvage. We were a large party (8 of us) and we got stuck on traffic, so we showed up a littlelate. Luckily 1 of us was there when they were starting and was told we could all still come in even though we were 15-minuteslate. We are so glad they did! Everyone in our group so appreciated the experience and all that we learned. The experience is aspecial treat that goes far beyond food: for the tawwa-saii, consider it an immersive story-telling time full of history,different perspectives, some local botanical and culinary background, a quick traditional game and of course, tasty food! In ourgroup, we had a variety of experience: from a docent and teacher, who enlightens local youth on the history of indigenous peopleand plants in the South Bay on a daily basis, to a British national with little experience of local indigenous people andhistory. It was a first for all of us and we all walked away impressed. There are a number of ways you can approach amonolithic task like sharing indigenous foods, and Vincent Medina presented us with a current, fully-contextualizedrealization of traditional ingredients formulated to please the modern palette: hazelnut-milk chia pudding is sweetened withagave syrup and benefits from the aromatic addition of vanilla. It 's unlikely that the local people would have eaten such athing pre-contact, but given the opportunity to thrive uninterrupted into today 's global society, you can bet that they *would*!So it 's no wonder that their elders insist that they keep the hazelnut-flour brownies. They are everyone 's favorite! If you cantake advantage of this unique opportunity, run, don 't walk. We can 't wait to try their dinner or brunch!

Such delicious food and such important decolonizing work! Very excited about how they use this cafe to support deepening connections to traditional food systems and thought within the Ohlone community ????????.

Go. Just go. Maybe this is the most interesting and different food experience you can have in the bay area today. You'll remember this fondly long after you can no longer remember whether that great meal you bought for $300 a person was at Benu orCoi. Two young Ohlones are trying to decolonize their culture. The cafe allows you to learn about and taste a credible stab atpre-colonial East Bay food. It's actually pretty tasty, but this is an experience more than a place to eat. There's plenty toread about this online, so instead of repeating it I will just add this as an endorsement to go.

The great thing about this place is it is done for awareness of ohlone that are still indigenous to the east bay. They have not moved from here ever. Hopefully this place can raise awareness that they are much alive and well as a culture. I was concerned Imight not liie some of the food for the snacks and tea on tuesday night but it was delicious and very natural to the nearbyland. The experience is great as it is communal at picnic tables, preceeded by prayer, and the food is explained. Very spiritualand tasty. It was an overall great experience. Highly recommended!