Based on 31 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.9 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No delivery
Address:
2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Website: https://www.makamham.com/cafeohlone/
Hours
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | 12–2:30 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 5–8:15 PM |
| Thursday | 1–3:15 PM |
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Reviews
Raymond Carbonneau Robles
Truly magical find.
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Kim Pham, Pharm.D.
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 3 sweet dishes. The chia seed porridge was a generous portion with a delicious flavor profile as well as texture. The toasted hazelnuts added a tasty crunch. Blackberries and gooseberries were a nice palate cleanser, and the chia seed flour brownie bites were addictive! The black walnuts and coarse East Bay salt were a perfect combination! I’m thankful they don’t sell these individually otherwise I would be eating them daily. In bulk.
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Kim Curiel
Tucked behind University Press Books is a transformative place that allows you to turn back time. The lovingly gathered and carefully prepared foods are nothing like any foods typically eaten today. Instead, these foods are the mainstay foods that allowed the Ohlone people to live in peace and in harmony with their environment for thousands of years. The two indigenous men who have created this incredible space and menu come from an unbroken line of people who have lived in the East Bay for thousands of years. The foods they are offering take a tremendous amount of time and labor, but they are not offering them in a simple format. The foods are rich and complex and take freshness to an entirely new level. Be prepared to sit outside, dress warmly. Be prepared to learn. There will be abundant information given about each course. Be prepared to ask questions. They want to start conversations that feed your soul as well as your body. Be prepared for adventure. This is an incredible opportunity to explore foods you may not otherwise taste. This is fine dining at its very best.
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Paula Calles
This place is a MUST. Deliciously fanciful, natural, clean & exquisitely flavorful dishes from our Bay Areas very own indigenous Ohlone tribe. The experience has been well thought out, and you can truly see the intentions that are full of LOVE here. This is as LOCAL and NATIVE as it gets!! Not enough stars for how happy this place makes me & how fulfilling the tastes!!
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sean kenney
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 I might not liie some of the food for the snacks and tea on tuesday night but it was delicious and very natural to the nearby land. The experience is great as it is communal at picnic tables, preceeded by prayer, and the food is explained. Very spiritual and tasty. It was an overall great experience. Highly recommended!
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Lenore Sanborn de Asis
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 little late. Luckily 1 of us was there when they were starting and was told we could all still come in even though we were 15-minutes late. We are so glad they did! Everyone in our group so appreciated the experience and all that we learned.
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Jeremy Bergsman
Go. Just go.
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Sonia A. Sánchez
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 .
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Rainer Hochhalter
the wonderful food is only part of the experience! listening to Vincent talk about the Ohlone people and their near genocide by the colonizing Europeans is truly humbling and touching!
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Adam Kapp
Food for the brain and the soul! Super delicious.
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