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This hole in the wall restaurant serves good, fast, and easy Thai Food for the busy college student. Thai Basil is located in the "Asian ghetto" of Berkeley and serves a wide variety of Thai food. ...
This hole in the wall restaurant serves good, fast, and easy Thai Food for the busy college student. Thai Basil is located in the "Asian ghetto" of Berkeley and serves a wide variety of Thai food. Most students here get pad thai, as I always do, which is very good here. It's sweet, the noodles are crisp, and the peanuts compliment the noodles very well.
Thai Basil is cheap in price and that's why many UC Berkeley students come here for a quick, fast Thai meal. I personally like this place because I can just go, order the food, and leave. They are also opened very late, so is very good for students who study late at night and get hungry.
The only pitfall is that there are a lot of bums around the area and often pester students for money. I have been encountered by a couple around the Thai Basil area.
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Dos Coyotes is a self serve restaurant, where you come in, order, and get your food. The items are well priced (well it should be since it's self served) and affordable on any student's budget. I...
Dos Coyotes is a self serve restaurant, where you come in, order, and get your food. The items are well priced (well it should be since it's self served) and affordable on any student's budget. I especially like the Southwest burrito myself because it is a large burrito and very reasonable in price, and comes with meat! There is also a salsa bar, which you can scoop out your favorite salsa to accompany your burrito, or whatever you get. All meals come with chips, so the salsa really comes in handy with the chips because tortilla chips are plain without salsa. They have about 9 different kinds of salsas ranging from mild to hot in spiciness. I prefer the mild kinds because I cannot handle too much spice.
The place is big and somewhat hard to find. It's located in a shopping mall complex, and to find it may require driving around in the lot. It's right next to a coffee shop, so you can always get coffee to accompany a nice Mexican burrito!
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I have been a patron of Le Cheval for many years, and their lunch menu is to die for. The prices haven't changed for the last few years, which is good... and the prices here are very...
I have been a patron of Le Cheval for many years, and their lunch menu is to die for. The prices haven't changed for the last few years, which is good... and the prices here are very reasonable.
My personal favorites are curry chicken and le cheval combo, which are both around 7 to 8 dollars each...and are both well worth the money because the food is great. Lunch comes with complimentary soup, which is either carrot soup or potato soup, both of which are creamy, buttery, and most of all hearty. I often find myself wanting another bowl!
Many of the items that you can get for lunch are also available for dinner, but are more expensive. I'd go here for lunch more often because the lunch menu is cheaper! And you can also order more expensive dinner items as well.
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Sushi Bune is a restaurant underground. At first it seems like you're walking into a dirty basement. However, when you enter the restaurant you are greeted by waitresses who speak some form...
Sushi Bune is a restaurant underground. At first it seems like you're walking into a dirty basement. However, when you enter the restaurant you are greeted by waitresses who speak some form Korean/Japanese.
The items on the menu are cheap and well priced. But their service is not so great. They often put me and my friends near the back near the kitchen or the bathroom, which is gross and unappealing. Also the waitresses take a really long time to get things if you request them (such as water), even if there are a lot of people or if there are not a lot of people.
I come here often because of its close proximity to Downtown SF shopping and because of its price. I don't come here for its service, and I wouldn't expect others to expect the best here for that... just a quick, good, filling, large-portioned meal.
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IKEA
Category:
Home & Garden
4400 Shellmound St
Emeryville, California 94608
(510) 420-4532
The IKEA here has excellent parking- a large parking lot structure probably as large as the store. The cafe serves good Swedish-style cooking at a very cheap price and also offers a market where...
The IKEA here has excellent parking- a large parking lot structure probably as large as the store. The cafe serves good Swedish-style cooking at a very cheap price and also offers a market where people can buy Swedish processed goods at a very good price. There aren't many Swedish people here in the Bay Area and there are very few markets which cater to Swedish cuisine...however, IKEA does do that and beyond. I highly recommend this IKEA for its food and its large selection of home furnishings. The prices are pretty standard, but make sure you check out the pre-assembled "returned" items - they can be up to half off, which is a really good deal. Everything in IKEA is pretty cheap and affordable -- that's why IKEA is a college student's dream store.
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The Ice Cream Dock has been in the Alameda Community for as long as I can remember (probably the last 2 decades). They serve the best Dreyer's flavors, both with sugar and sugarfree. The prices...
The Ice Cream Dock has been in the Alameda Community for as long as I can remember (probably the last 2 decades). They serve the best Dreyer's flavors, both with sugar and sugarfree. The prices are reasonable for a scoop of ice cream (around a dollar something for a scoop). This place is family-run, and the family atmosphere of this place is great. It sure makes eating the ice cream a better experience.
The candy selection is varied as well... but I come here more for the ice cream since it is called the "Ice Cream Dock"!. It's a great place for a hang out with friends, and a great place to cool off during the summer. It's also conviently located at the Harbor Bay Plaza.
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Kobe-Ya
Category:
Restaurants
2300 Encinal Ave
Alameda, California 94501
(510) 337-1966
This place is often crowded by high schoolers during the noontime M-F, so I suggest if you want to get food from this place, you should go before noon or after 2pm. The food here serves typical...
This place is often crowded by high schoolers during the noontime M-F, so I suggest if you want to get food from this place, you should go before noon or after 2pm. The food here serves typical Japanese food, from teriyaki to katsus to tempura to sushis. They tend to be a lot faster with their orders than Kai's, which is close by.
Kobe-ya is small, and at the corner of an street, but it has ample seating during non-rush-eating-hours! Highly recommended for fresh Japanese food, served by the nicest of workers.
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This place is great. The food is authentic to Szechuan where the food is spicy and "chili pepper" is its middle name. What attracts many people to this restaurant is the price. The food items are...
This place is great. The food is authentic to Szechuan where the food is spicy and "chili pepper" is its middle name. What attracts many people to this restaurant is the price. The food items are dirt cheap, especially a lot of the lunch menu items. They get a lot of business both day and night because the prices are very reasonable. I personally go for the warm, sweetened soya milk with Chinese doughnut (yau tiu) and rice roll (fan tiu....both in salty and sweet). Lunch here is a bargain! Highly recommended
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Chinese food is supposed to be flavorful, but the food here at HK City Seafood Restaurant is bland. I ordered Singapore Style Curry Noodles, and I expected it to be spicy. Instead, the noodles...
Chinese food is supposed to be flavorful, but the food here at HK City Seafood Restaurant is bland. I ordered Singapore Style Curry Noodles, and I expected it to be spicy. Instead, the noodles were wet (they should be slightly drier) and plain. However, the waitresses are very friendly, who try their best to speak English with their customers.
There never is a line here, so come on in. Their lunch menus are a bargain, which comes with a soup (usually it is hot and sour soup). I don't really like hot and sour soup, so I am indifferent when it comes to the soup.
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Kai's is a good place to get fast Japanese food. During the weekdays at lunch this place is a frenzy with high school kids all wanting to order food. The food isn't that great to worth the wait...
Kai's is a good place to get fast Japanese food. During the weekdays at lunch this place is a frenzy with high school kids all wanting to order food. The food isn't that great to worth the wait (sometimes up to 30-45 minutes!). But one pro: their salad dressing is wonderful...with hints of miso and soy, it's delicious.
I'd come here at lunch on a weekend, when school is not in session. Dinner is expensive, but at that time, there really aren't lines.
One warning: The teriyaki sauce is very salty and sweet. I'd suggest the tonkatsu for those who are watching out for their salt intake levels.
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