Virginia-McGee Totland

Art studio where kids and grown-ups make things together out of reuse materials, with open lab time, after-school classes and camps.

Five blocks of green with a fenced tot area in the middle and, at the east end, wooden logs and ropes to climb, tall towers and metal slides.

All plant-based deli and bakery that calls itself California's original vegan butcher, with sandwiches like the Killer BLAT.

A Berkeley toy shop and kids' bookstore, the one people send you to for the thing you cannot find anywhere else.

Family-style restaurant and bakery known for breakfast, burgers and desserts, with fresh apple pie and cheese puffs by the baker's dozen.

Salvadoran restaurant with pupusas and a kids' menu.