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COLONIAL DONUTS

3318 Lakeshore, Oakland • 893-2503

SERVING:

• donuts
• coffee

Here’s a great snippet from “L. Boogie” on yelp: “You gotta love a donut shop that misspells it’s own name! In 2004, they raised a new sign that read “Coloinal Donuts”. Let me count the ways: They’re always open. The donuts are goooooood. Sometimes they put the wrong donut in my bag, but it’s usually an upgrade from whatever I asked for. Thank you Coloinal Donuts for your “upcoming” movie posters that are always 6 months late, your introspective and stoic homeless patrons, your superficially intense college study groups, and your chess-loving curmudgeons who never seem to make a move.”

OPEN UNTIL: 24 HOURS!

PARKING: street

REVIEWS: yelp

FENTONS CREAMERY & RESTAURANT

4226 Piedmont Ave, Oakland • 658-7000

SERVING:

• delicious creamy old-fashioned ice cream, sherbets and sundaes (see menu)
• sandwiches and burgers from the grill (see menu)

OPEN UNTIL: 11PM (Sun -Thu) • 12AM (Fri & Sat)

PARKING: small lot and street

WEBSITE: Fentons Creamery

THE EBI REVIEW: Fentons reminds me of the East Coast. They serve gigantic creamy scoops of brilliant hard-to-find flavors like: Black Walnut, Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch, Coffee Cookie Dream, Heath Bar, Toasted Almond and my all-time favorite: Butter Brickle. Definitely a kid-friendly establishment, the place is often packed loud, sprawling families. Fentons offers burgers, sandwiches and salads on its traditional American fare menu, but it takes a true American diner to follow that up with a Fudgeanna. I don’t do well with the crowd so I normally get my treats to go and sit at the tables outside or walk along Piedmont. I also invariably get the Butter Brickle each and every time. Nicole concurs that it could use a little more ‘brickle,’ but we’re both psyched that they have it at all. Fentons is a Bay Area landmark and an EBI Munchies Category champ. Wish it were open a little later.

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BEN & JERRY’S

2128 Oxford, Berkeley • 845-9445

SERVING:

• ice cream (see flavors)
• frozen coolers, shakes and splashes (see drinks)
• frozen yogurt and sorbet smoothies (see the refreshment)
• ice cream cakes (try their Virtual Cake Builder)

(If links above aren’t working, try this menu.)

OPEN UNTIL: 12AM

PARKING: street

REVIEWS:

WEBSITE: Ben & Jerry’s Berkeley Scoop Shop

Photo from Justin Sailor’s Hometown Invasion blog.

Visit the Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard and ressurect your favorite flavor here.

GELATERIA NAIA 

2106 Shattuck Ave • 883-1568

FEATURING:

• Gelato (106 different creamy traditional, creative and Bay Area flavors. Try the black sesame seed!)
• Sorbetto (The fruit version of gelatto; it’s dairy free and full of fresh fruit.
• Soy Gelato (Made with fresh organic soy milk.)

OPEN UNTIL: 11PM (Sun -Thu) • 12AM (Fri & Sat)

PARKING: Street

WEBSITE: Gelateria Naia

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CREPEVINE

5600 College Ave, Rockridge • 658-2026

SERVING:

• dessert (sweet) crepes
• nondesesert (savory) crepes
• sandwiches
• soups and salads
• coffee and beer

OPEN UNTIL: 12AM (Fri-Sat) • 11PM (Sun-Thurs)

PARKING: street

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