Foster's is a 50s-style drive-through fast food chain offering burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches and soft serve ice cream.
Tara's Organic Ice Cream offers flavors that you don't often see in an ice cream shop. It has chocolate hazelnut, truffle ripple, banana agave sorbet, blackberry walnut, eggnog and ginger caramel. The store also carries ice cream cakes that come with a cashew crust and gluten-free ice cream brownie sandwiches (available in Vanilla Bean, Mint Chip and Peanut Butter, among others). All of the ice cream at the shop is completely organic and available in compostable cups and pint containers.
Chocolatier Blue sells gourmet chocolates in 10-, 15- and 20-piece boxes. Flavors include almond, caramel, espresso, hazelnut and peppermint. It also has several unusual chocolates, such as sunflower and orange marmalade, pear with bay leaf, and peanut butter and strawberry jam. All of the chocolates use Five-Star organic butter that comes from California. Please note that the chocolates have a shelf life of three weeks, and that you should not refrigerate them.
Cada De Chocolates is a specialty chocolate gift and dessert company with a store location based on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley. The company, led by owner and chocolatier Arcelia Gallardo, offers a wide range of products and chocolate items, including gluten-free selections and boxed chocolates. Some products include coconut macaroons, bon bons, dark chocolate, Aztec cheesecake, pumpkin flan, chocolate cheesecake, and much more. The company offers online shopping as well as specialty Mayan and Aztec designs. Check the main website for a full gallery of selections or call for details on pricing.
Owners Malena Lopez-Maggi and Clive Brown create artisinal chocolates without high-fructose corn syrup or trans fats. The Xocolate Bar's unique flavors, such as Cardomom Crunch, set it apart. Other delightful treats include French-style hot chocolate, solid chocolate figurines and chocolate gelato.
iScream crafts their ice cream from Straus Family Creamery's organic milk. With a black-and-white checkered floor that harkens back to a day when kids could ride their bicycles to the soda fountion, this locally-owned parlor offers a wide variety of flavors, including classics such as strawberry, blueberry, vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream, mint chip and more.
This is the candy store for Sweet Dreams (its toy store is down the block). It has a huge variety of candy, including chocolate almond bark, candy corn, licorice, gum drops and sour patch apples. It also has a selection of "nostalgia" candy like Dum Dum Pops and Swedish mints. You can purchase several types of candy by the pound, both wrapped and unwrapped. Sweet Dreams also has sugar-free Gummi bears and mixed bonbons.
For years, one of the owners of Spun Sugar was teased by friends that she had so many cooking supplies and cake decorations in her house she could start her own business. In the mid-nineties, she decided to listen to those friends, and co-founded Spun Sugar. Walking the aisles of this store is like taking a stroll through Martha Stewart's wildest fantasies come to life. It offers a wide variety of cake decorations, cooking classes, supplies, mixes and bulk chocolate for all the aspring pastry chefs out there, as well as fresh truffles, cupcakes, and cookies for those who appreciate their work.
Yogurt Park is a frozen yogurt shop on Durant Avenue in Berkeley. It is conveniently close to the UC campus and offers a sweet, healthy treat. Yogurt Park has several flavors of frozen yogurt and a wide variety of toppings from candy to fruit.
Dream Fluff Donuts is a small donut shop and cafe that has quick meals for breakfast and lunch. It has a selection of about 25 rotating donut varieties, breakfast sandwiches and lunch specials. It also has ice cream and coffee for quick breaks, as well as a cold case of sodas and juices. To top off its services, it has scratcher tickets and the lottery.