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Chez Panisse
Restaurant in Berkeley, California
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Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of California cuisine and the farm-to-table movement, opened and owned by Alice Waters.
The restaurant emphasizes ingredients rather than technique and has developed a supply network of direct relationships with local farmers, ranchers and dairies.
The main restaurant, located downstairs, serves a set menu that changes daily and reflects the season's produce.[1] An upstairs cafe offers an a la carte menu at lower prices.
History
The restaurateur, author, and food activist Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in with the film producer Paul Aratow, then a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
It is named for a character in Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy[fr].[2][3] They set up the restaurant and its menu on the