Telegraph Eateries

Driving back from AT&T Park this past Sunday afternoon where we had just seen the Giants wallop the Rockies, my buddy Oliver and I got to talking about all the old eateries near the U.C. Berkeley campus that we used to frequent as undergraduates. On opposite corners of Telegraph and Haste used to be two cheap but excellent Mexican restaurants, Mario's La Fiesta and La Villa Hermosa. Both are gone, though a successor to Mario's is Remy's located a few paces east up Haste behind the old Villa Hermosa.

One block south on Dwight was a Bongo Burger that is still there. We reminisced about the days in the '80s when Bongo Burger offered two eggs, home fries and toast for a buck and a half. An amazing deal. Persian owned and operated, Bongo Burger was the gold standard for inexpensive campus-area food.

This morning Oliver sent the photo below with the subject line, "Still a deal":