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Specialties
We are an American style bar & bistro, serving comfort food and great drinks at great prices. We have live entertainment every week!
Come for diner, and stay to enjoy our live music which we host 5 nights a week (Wednesday-Sunday). We offer a full bar and have 12 beers on tap many of which are regional Micro Brews.
We offer a nightly Happy Hour from 4pm to 7 pm, featuring fun drinks and casual food such as sliders, flat bread pizzeta, and BEC’s fries (regular and garlic. yum!).
BEC’s Bar & Bistro features a full bar with a large selection of Scotch, Vodka and Tequila. The sky is the limit at BEC’s Bar & Bistro where our spirits and libations have taken on a life of their own. Our entire bar staff has been fully trained in the art of Scientificomixomagico; in short, super fun drinks! Don’t bother looking it up, we are the only place to have a dictionary with this word in it; but trust us when we say «We make one mean cocktail.»
History
Established in 2011.
A letter to Berkeley:
I had a trip planned to visit a friend in San Francisco on the second of July in 1980. My trip was postponed until the fourth of July. I had not realized that this was a national holiday. After waiting for a while for my friend to pick me up at Oakland International, I made my way to downtown Berkeley. I went looking for a café with a street terrace to hangout on while waiting for him. I arrived not knowing what to expect. All of the stores were closed and no one was in the street. It felt like I was in a «ghost» town. Where were the people? Where was Berkeley’s youth vibe that I read and heard so much about while doing my studies? Where were the musicians and free-lance artists that colored the social movement from the sixties? I felt alone in the middle of the ghost town looking to meet someone and craving for a cup of coffee. I walked up and down Shattuck and Telegraph Avenue, not knowing where I was going and not seeing anyone to socialize with. Discovering t