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[[File:Fun_times_at_the_med.jpg|thumb|Board games such as Scrabble were played at the Med]]
▲'''Caffe Mediterraneum''', often referred to as Caffe Med or simply the Med, is a famous [[café]] located on [[Telegraph Avenue]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]], near the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. The Med is an emblematic [[landmark]] of Telegraph Avenue history, "listed for years in [[Europe]]an [[guidebook]]s as 'the gathering place for 1960s [[Far left|radicals]] who created [[People's Park]]'"<ref name="bdp">{{cite news | title = Berkeley's Cafe Culture Thrives in Many Venues | first = Alta | last = Gerry | publisher = The Berkeley Daily Planet | url = http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2004-08-27/article/19518?headline=Berkeley-s-Cafe-Culture-Thrives-in-Many-Venues-By-ALTA-GERREY-&status=301 | date=2004-09-27 |accessdate=2009-04-19}},</ref> it is now listed in [[Fodor's|Fodor's guidebook]] as "a relic of 1960s-era café culture."<ref name="fodor">{{cite web | url=http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/california/oakland-and-berkeley/review-93708.html | accessdate = 2009-04-19 | title = Telegraph Avenue Review}}</ref> It is located at 2475 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, between Haste Street and Dwight Way.
[[File:There_were_a_variety_of_people_from_all_over_the_world_at_cafe_med.jpg|thumb|People from all over the world came to Caffè Med]]
[[File:Cafe_culture.jpg|thumb|Caffè Culture, meeting with friends new and old]]
==History==
Established as a [[coffeehouse]] inside a [[bookstore]] in 1956 under the name ''Il Piccolo'' by Maxine Chitarin before
The café's website maintains that "Lino Meiorin, one of the owners, was the first Italian-trained barista in the Bay Area. Customers were not used to the strong flavor of a traditional Italian cappuccino and would ask Lino for more milk. Speaking in Italian, he would tell the barista to put more latte (milk) in their cup. Finally he thought of putting a larger drink on the menu with the same amount of espresso but more steamed milk, and calling it a [[caffè latte]]."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://dailycoffeenews.com/2016/12/12/remembering-latte-birthplace-and-quintessential-counterculture-destination-caffe-med/|title=Remembering Latte Birthplace and Quintessential Counterculture Destination Caffe Med|last=Brown|first=Nick|date=2016-12-12|work=Daily Coffee News|access-date=2018-09-12}}</ref>
Of Telegraph Avenue, "many [[city]] [[official]]s and [[merchant]]s say the avenue has lost its [[wiktionary:vibrant|vibrancy]]" since the 1960s, but "until the 1990s, the Med thrived as a center for [[conversation]] and [[caffeine]]."<ref name="dailycal2"/><ref name="dailycal1"/> Changes in ownership took a toll though, and at that point, [[employee]]s say the Med "took a turn for the worse" as it was "bordering on a [[homeless]] shelter."<ref name="dailycal2"/> However, with another change in ownership 2006, the Med is again "a destination for activists seeking social change."<ref name="dailycal2"/>▼
During the 1960s, the Med featured a diverse crowd of [[patron]]s, and it became a meeting place for [[Beat Generation]] [[artist]]s, [[intellectual]]s, [[Black Power]] advocates, and [[activist]]s who were taking part in the [[Free Speech Movement]] and post-FSM activism.<ref name="dailycal2"/><ref name="sfchron">{{cite news | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/23/FD9921.DTL&type=travel | publisher = San Francisco Chronicle | title = Cafe Culture: A peek into Berkeley's dark-roast hangouts, where everyone knows your name | first = Sally | last =McGrane | date = 1998-09-23 | accessdate=2009-04-19}}</ref><ref name="dailycal1">{{cite news | url = http://www.dailycal.org/article/25658/telegraph_avenue_ | publisher = The Daily Californian | first = Amanda | last = Ott | title = Telegraph Avenue | date = 2007-08-20 | accessdate =2009-04-19}}</ref><ref name="espresso_book">{{cite book | last = Davids | first = Kenneth | title = Espresso: Ultimate Coffee | publisher = Macmillan | year = 2001 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2wpvOZXC32wC& | isbn = 978-0-312-24666-2}}</ref> During this era, the Med also played a role in two important pieces of art. [[Allen Ginsberg]] was a regular at the Med and probably wrote ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl]]'' on the premises of the Med.<ref name="dailycal2"/><ref name="barefoot"/> Though the owner at the time initially refused access to the film crews, a scene in 1967's ''[[The Graduate]]'' starring [[Dustin Hoffman]] was also [[film]]ed at a table in the Med, with [[Telegraph Avenue]] visible outside the window.<ref name="dailycal2"/><ref name="barefoot"/>
==See also==▼
▲Of Telegraph Avenue, "many [[city]] [[official]]s and [[merchant]]s say the avenue has lost its [[wiktionary:vibrant|vibrancy]]" since the 1960s, but "until the 1990s, the Med thrived as a center for [[conversation]] and [[caffeine]]."<ref name="dailycal2"/><ref name="dailycal1"/> Changes in ownership took a toll though, and at that point, [[employee]]s say the Med "took a turn for the worse" as it was "bordering on a [[homeless]] shelter
On November 30, 2016, the Med closed for renovations. {{As of|2022||df=}}, the location of the Caffe Mediterraneum has since been converted to Sizzling Lunch,<ref name="sizzlinglunch">{{cite web | url=http://sizzlinglunch.com | accessdate = 2020-01-15 | title = Sizzling Lunch locations}}</ref> a chain Japanese restaurant.
▲==See also==
*[[Cody's Books]]
*[[Southside, Berkeley, California]]
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195804/http://www.caffemed.com/
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