EAST BAY INSOMNIAC

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

L’AMYX

4179 Piedmont, Oakland • 595-8322

3437 Lakeshore, Oakland • 594-8322

SERVING:

• hot tea
• chai tea
• bubble tea

PARKING: street

REVIEWS: yelp

CYBER CAFE

4390 Telegraph Ave, Oakland • 652-9935

FEATURES:

• Hi-speed Internet
  • $5/1 hour
  • $10/3.5 hours
  • $20/8 hours
• Coffee, Bubble Tea & Smoothies
• 3 clocks with local time in San Francisco, Seoul and Paris

OPEN UNTIL: 2AM

PARKING: Koryo lot

REVIEWS:

CAFFE MEDITERRANEUM

2475 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley • 549-1128

SERVING:

• coffee
• tea
• pastries

OPEN UNTIL: 12AM

PARKING: street

THE EBI REVIEW: Once upon a time, the East Bay’s oldest cafe was ‘bohemian’ and radical. Now it’s not. According to rumours, Ginsberg wrote part of “Howl” here. Testimony and history would indicate that Caffe Med was a pretty happening place. Robert Anton Wilson name-dropped it in Schrodinger’s Cat:

Two Berkeley acid-heads, known on Telegraph Avenue as The Cat and The Dog, dreamed up a more intense disinformation matrix in 1980. “What would happen, ” The Cat asked one day in the Cafe Mediterraneum, “if we bought a truck and painted on the side of it INTERNATIONAL COCAINE IMPORTERS INC., and drove it around the streets?” “In Berkeley,” The Dog said, “the cops would just laugh. They’d be sure it was another put-on by the Hog Farm or the Merry Pranksters or somebody. But in San Francisco they wouldn’t take a chance. The first cop would stop the truck and search it.” “Nah,” said an unsuccessful poet named Robert W. Anton. “They’re more hip than that in San Francisco. But in L.A…” The debate spread from the Med to Moe’s, from Moe’s to Sather Gate, leapt the Bay…” (–Robert Anton Wilson aka Robert W. Anton, 1979)

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ESPRESSO ROMA

2690 College Ave, Berkeley • 644-3773

SERVING:

• coffee
• tea
• sandwiches & snacks

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

PARKING: street

REVIEWS: