<p>Gregoire's is in North Berkeley, like across the street ish from Elephant Pharmacy</p>
<p>2109 Cedar Street
(1/2 block off Shattuck)</p>
<p>Oh, I walk by it all the time to go to the Cheeseboard. Hmmm</p>
<p>gregoires=amazing</p>
<p>Steal a street sign and use it as room decour.</p>
<p>Good call on Gregoire, but they're called pommes dauphine! potato puffs is for the more culturally challenged Americans... ;)</p>
<p>Gregoire is in a nutshell one of many illustrations of the only-in-Berkeley in the food column: a top chef from France serves top food cheap (lunch as sides that is, dinners are a little steeper) in a very casual and friendly pedestrian experience. </p>
<p>Where's the list of 100? I'll make my own in due time...</p>
<p>a few quick ones off-hand:
-watch the sun set exactly through the Golden Gate (it happens only two weeks the whole year, in late october and february)
-eat once at Panisse
-get laid on the Big C, the Cal script at midfield in the stadium, the Rose Garden, the eucalyptus grove,
-sleep on top of the platform above the Campanile entrance. If you stick your head close to the tower, the view is pretty neat...
-get inside every old building on campus
-win an intramural competition and wear the trophy shirt in grad school
-attend a Cal Football road game at the 'furd, at fUCLA and at U$C
-throw the cards at halftime
-go to at least one rugby game, watch one crew race, see at least one Cal gold medalist in action.
-stay up all night once to help your best friend or GF/BF who's staying up all night to study.
-stay up all night in the City on a weeknight
-go to at least one Coop party, one frat party and one I-House party
-hang out in a Maybeck or Julia Morgan house in the hills
-shop at the Berkeley Bowl and the farmers market to make a very nice meal from scratch at least once a month by your senior year
-spend over 4 hours straight at least once in Moe's bookstore (RIP Codys...)
-know a least one street person on a first name basis
-visit at least a dozen wineries in Napa/Sonoma
-go to the beach every summer and Tahoe at least once every winter
-sail under the Golden Gate
-Marin county- brunch at the Alta Mira deck in Sausalito or Sam's in Tiburon, a beer at the Pelikan Inn off Muir Beach
-be able have your own top 3 dim sum, sushi and brunch places, Indian, Thai, French, Italian,...restaurant in SF/Berkeley
-have a beer with the chancellor
-have a beer with Oski
-do at least one ass-kicking research project
-bomb at least one interview, one final (that's easy!), one class
-go to Big Sur, Mendocino and visit every scenis little town in between on highway one.
-stay at the lighthouse hostel in Pigeon Point or Montara <a href="http://www.norcalhostels.org/ourHostels.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.norcalhostels.org/ourHostels.html</a>
-see at least one film at the PFA every semester, if not every month. Beats the $hit out of anime or new Hollywood crap.
-hear at least one great filmmaker in person at the PFA
-take a date to the Kirov Ballet at Zellerbach
-watch at least 3 great bands at the Greek
-go to a bonfire rally at the Greek
-make a bonfire at Stinson Beach
-be able to tell a pinot from a cabernet by taste before you graduate
-try a few great Belgian beers, the best in the world, available in many places in Berkeley but very hard to come by in the rest of the US.
-have your graduation pictures taken at the Rose Garden, or visit the garden in full bloom mid-may at least once.
-bike to the top of Centenial Road, come down at 40mph.
-have a BBQ at one of your favorite profs' house
-have BBQ at Bo's in Orinda, one of the best in the US
-do your reading in a redwood grove by a stream
-learn to windsurf, snowboard, ski, kitesail
-learn to rockclimb
-ditch your old musical tastes and get into some new bands that blow you away live
-check out the next Green Day at lower sproul
-take a photography class at ASUC
-join a Sproul protest at least once, regardless of your political opinion
-learn about other cultures and languages
-fill up a bookshelf with books that aren't specifically for school.
-watch The Graduate your last term</p>
<p>There are probably more than 250 musts at Cal, this is only a warmup...</p>
<p>Hey CalX: I printed your list so I can start on it in August. Thanks.</p>
<p>"Hey CalX: I printed your list so I can start on it in August. Thanks."</p>
<p>I'm probably going to do the same as well. This is very close to a definitive list + we should add all the other good points mentioned on this thread. Calx do you have the other 250 Cal must dos? haha.</p>
<p>My pleasure CA2006, I'll put up a longer list, I'm sure I've missed a whole lot of Cal musts.</p>
<p>Go Bears.</p>
<p>any mas?????</p>
<p>This in no way comes close to CalX's list, but here are a few more: </p>
<p>-Blondies (does this still exist there?)
-Fat Slice
-Zachary's Pizza
-Walk through People's Park (alive) (ah - it's not that bad)
-Play tennis atop a 3 story parking lot structure. :)
-Walk home at 3 am in the morning (without getting mugged)
-Bongo Burger!!!
-Buy some vintage records
-Go to each shop down Telegraph Ave.
-Get a parking ticket.
-Where a red shirt to a Cal football game (hehe)
-Listen to the evening drummers in Sproul Plaza (don't worry - you'll hear them a mile away)
-Get Joked by Jokeman
-Listen to Rick Starr sing: the rock star, what could have been. :) (is he still there?)
-Siting of Pinkman (I've never seen him, but maybe you will)
-Take the campus bus around campus just for the heck of it. Get off where you got on.
-Bart!!!!
-La Burrita and La Val's (on northside)
-Cafe Strata
-Study at every library on campus
-People watch on the steps of Sproul Plaza
-Come to enjoy walking uphill on campus. :)
-pier 39 in SF
-go across each of the bridges in the bay area
-make sure you read your heuristic squelch
-and your Daily Californian</p>
<p>Thanks Khan, I will add yours to CalX's. Who or what is Pinkman?</p>
<p>Pinkman was supposedly some guy who dressed up in a pink-suit and went around on a unicycle (if I recall correctly). Some of my friends say they saw him, but I never did. :)</p>
<p>Nothing at Cal is really special enough that it warrants a brand name "berkeley" experience. Like anyone going places would give a damn about Pizza or getting drunk.</p>
<p>You associate with stupid people who don't care about you and you leave Cal. Case closed.</p>
<p>Looks like somebody needs a hug.</p>
<p>Actually cantsilence, most of the items on my list are unique to Cal.</p>
<p>cantsilencetruth = hate smurf.</p>
<p>most of that stuff is just unique to living in the bay area.</p>
<p>cantsilencetruth = hate smurf. LOL!!!</p>
<p>Is CST now an alumni?</p>
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<p>Perhaps an alumnus.</p>
<p>A lot of what makes the bay area unique is due to Cal. The food revolution for instance was started by Cal grads. A school's environment shapes it, but in Cal's case, the converse is also true.</p>
<p>Here's CST, without the cap and gown:
<a href="http://www.timelesstrinkets.com/Smurfs/Images/Labels/SmallPics/SmurfGrouchy.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.timelesstrinkets.com/Smurfs/Images/Labels/SmallPics/SmurfGrouchy.jpg</a></p>
<p>I hope that Berkeley doesn't do to me what it did to CST in 4 years...</p>