Best neighborhoods in Berkeley
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Ranked 1st best neighborhood in Berkeley
"The Elmwood - tradition with an open mind"
- RobinGaskinsRanked 2nd best neighborhood in Berkeley
"Living in South Berkeley since 2001"
- BillF
I love my neighborhood. My neighbors are a diverse bunch of humanity from pretty much everywhere on Earth. We have a great neighborhood group who like to meet for business reasons but also to social...
Ranked 3rd best neighborhood in Berkeley
"Berkeley's Theater District"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Downtown Berkeley is the section of the city just to the west of campus where you can find a series of restaurants, theaters, and government offices. It is a very urban area, but the City of Berkeley...
Unranked Neighborhoods
"Home of Alta Bates Hospital"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The tiny neighborhood of Bateman in Berkeley is best known as the home of Alta Bates Hospital, which dominates the neighborhood both in terms of size and prestige. The neighborhood is often considere...
"Quiet Professor's Neighborhood"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The area just north of the Cal campus that goes up to Cedar is known as Northside. It is virtually the polar opposite of Southside. It is, to begin, an older demographic. Whereas, the median age in...
"Open Air Promenade, Berkeley Style"
- NightOwlnOrinda
This area of Berkeley right by the Marina used to be largely industrial area and you can still see the many warehouses that once dominated the area. Even then, however, Brennan’s, an Irish pub style...
"The Intellectual Heart of the Bay"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Southside is perhaps the most famous area of Berkeley, containing the section of Telegraph that leads right up to the campus at Sather Gate and having that famous sixties Mecca, People’s Park, within...
"Fabulous flavor in the Gourmet Ghetto"
- RobinGaskins"Temple, Castle and Cyclotron"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Berkeley Terrace is a neighborhood in the Berkeley hills with many narrow winding roads and hidden attractions. The 1923 Berkeley Fire destroyed the neighborhood spurring new construction by one of th...
"Thousand Oaks neighborhood is the complete package"
- RobinGaskins"Parks and Families and Parks and Parks"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Cragmont is one of the most upscale neighborhoods in Berkeley, former the area of the Berkeley Hills just north of the Rose Garden and the La Loma Park. Its moderately winding streets are filled with...
"Chez Panisse and Restaurant Row"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The area just northwest of campus along Shattuck has been dubbed the “Gourmet Ghetto,” because of the many high-end restaurants that have flocked there to bask in the glow of Alice Waters’ Chez Paniss...
"A Bit of Everything and a Park"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The southern part of West Berkeley is a mix between residential and commercial interests.
Much of the northern end of this neighborhood is a fairly typically residential much like any other in the...
"A Graduate Student Neigbhorhood"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The two main blocks that form the main commercial hub for the neighborhood are filled with fresh produce and breads to the point where you might simply consider it to be a permanent farmer’s market....
"I House and the Eastern Border of Campus"
- FlowerGirl
Piedmont is a wide tree lined lane with a large meridian and lots of European style turnabouts. Traffic is terrrible but it is great for pedestrians and taking in the flavor of the campus. Internati...
"The air is sweeter in the Berkeley Hills"
- RobinGaskins"Lalimes and Graduate Student Families"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Westbrae is the neighborhood just east of San Pablo that straddles Hopkins Street on the north and south. Gilman and Sante Fe form a triangle at its northern end and Cedar Rose Park is at its southern...
"The Berkeley Bowl Neigbhorhood"
- NightOwlnOrinda
The area just west of Telegraph to Shattuck, south of Dwight and North of Ashby is the residential area known as the Hillegass Area. It is known as a student neighborhood. It is not as nice as Elmwo...
"Berkeley's Industrious Area"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Despite its proximity to water and the more run down shoreline industries, West Berkeley, north of University, is much like any other Berkeley neighborhood to the east of it. The homes here are the t...
"Park and Tunnel Berkeley"
- NightOwlnOrinda
Just north of the Gourmet Ghetto as the restaurant rich stretch of Shattuck is known, is the Live Oak neighborhood of Berkeley, so named because it surrounds Live Oak Park. Live Oak Park itself is a...