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Contra Costa Times
Adagia is for the (grown-up) college crowd
by John Birdsall
Adagia Restaurant selected Best New Restaurant of the Year (2005) by the Contra Costa Times.
San Francisco Chronicle
Simply Satisfying
Comforting food at the chummy Adagia near Cal
by Michael Bauer
The 86-seat dining room at Adagia looks like a set for a Harry Potter movie, with its handsome wood-beamed ceiling, rich-grained paneling, large diamond-patterned leaded glass windows, and massive fireplace.
East Bay Express
Slow Food Chateau
Bistro Adagia exudes the gravity of old Europe.
by Jonathan Kauffman
There's something about a fireplace that instills a room with a sense of history. Ignoring the waiter's computer station next to it and the fact that the flames are fueled by gas, not wood, the fireplace at the far end of Adagia, on the edge of the Cal campus, transports diners to a much earlier age. With two-story ceilings, high latticed windows, and all the wood paneling Yosemite could spare, the room, once the activity room for the Presbyterian church's Westminster House, harks back to the days when Julia Morgan walked the earth and American academics gleaned all their good taste from Europe.
San Francisco Magazine
A new campus canteen for the culinary savvy.
by Peggy Nauts
Cal professors and staffers must be thrilled to have a real restaurant right across from campus that's never overrun by iPod-bopping, belly-baring, know-their-rights freshmen. Somewhere quiet enough for a spirited debate about jury nullification or courtly love.
Diablo Magazine
Review
Adagia is located smack in the middle of Universityland. Adjacent to a fraternity, it's not the most obvious spot for upscale California comfort food. Yet now that it's here, we're wondering, Why didn't someone think of this before now?
Daily Planet
Not Just for Undergrads: Adagia Opens on Bancroft
by Kathryn Jessup, Special to the Planet
Adagia, the new restaurant at the corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, looks like the dining hall of an East Coast prep school. Luckily, the food doesn't follow suit.
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