Great Arkansas Black Apples at Berkeley Bowl

[oakjoan]

Today was the first time I asked and got the right answer at the Bowl. Arkansas Blacks yet? YES!

I bought about 10 and just tried one. Absolutely perfect - tart, very crisp....sigh, I'm in heaven.

They're about $1.35 or so a pound but worth every penny.

Huzzah!

[toitoi]

Will be going to San Francisco, and plan on visiting the Berkeley Bowl, which I've read a great deal about. What decent restos are in the neighborhood? Is Chez Panisse nearby? Plan on taking BART from San Francisco.

Thanks.

[walker]

Do try Crixa Cakes across the street from Berkeley Bowl. 2748 Adeline, [phone]. Closed Sun/Mon. www.crixacakes.com. If you like tea, get them to make you a pot with leaves rather than a tea bag. It's Hungarian cakes, pastries, cookies, better than what I found in Budapest!!

[wolfe]

You can try for the Chez Panisse Cafe for lunch, dinner reservations usually hard
to get. Al Fresco dining at picnic tables but upscale food at Gregoire, Cesar for tapas style and other fine places if you do a Berkeley board search. These 3 are all on the same block about 1.6 miles from Berkeley Bowl.

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Chez Panisse
1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Bar César
1515 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709

Gregoire
2109 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA 94709

[Ruth Lafler]

It's not walking distance from Chez Panisse and the Gourmet Ghetto. But it's on the same street and there are buses that run frequently down that street.

[wally]

Berkeley Bowl is a short walk from the Ashby Bart Station. Chez Panisse and the Gourmet Ghetto are a little bit farther from either the dowtown Berkeley Bart Station or the North Berkeley Bart station.

[toitoi]

Thank you all, for your suggestions.

[toodie jane]

do you just eat out of hand or do you cook with them? Just found some at my local produce stand...what to do?

[Ruth Lafler]

I think Arkansas Blacks are too hard and dry to eat out of hand when really fresh. You can cook with them, or you can keep them for a couple of weeks until they mellow a little -- they're great storage apples. JMHO.

[iwantmytwodollars]

I eat them out of hand, but that's my taste (they are sweet and a little wine sap like in their flavor). And you can store them in your crisper FOREVER.

[iwantmytwodollars]

Thank you oakjoan!