influenced by French food-related values and customs, including buying local produce and frugality in avoiding waste. Other influences included vineyard owners Lulu and Lucien Peyraud and the writings of Richard Olney and Elizabeth David. Critical reception In 2001, Gourmet magazine named Chez Panisse the Best Restaurant in America. From 2002 to 2008 it was ranked by Restaurant magazine as one of the top 50 restaurants in the world and was ranked number 12 in 2003. Michelin awarded the restaurant a one-star rating in its guide to San Francisco Bay Area dining from 2006 through 2009, but the restaurant lost its star in 2010. In 2007, Alice Waters won Restaurant Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, and was cited as one of the most influential figures in American cooking over the past 50 years. A 2019 review by San Francisco Chronice food critic Soleil Ho praised the fruit bowl, but complained that the servers couldn't answer questions about the food and that some dishes were "acid" or "acrid." She compared the recent evolution of the restaurant to the way that "revolutionary movements fizzle out." Culinary innovations The aforementioned emphasis on farm-to-table and California cuisine. California-style pizza, baked in an in-house pizza oven and topped with a variety of local ingredients, was created at the cafe in 1980. Goat Cheese Salad: first offered in the late 1970s, the salad contains rounds of chèvre marinated in olive oil and herbs, coated in bread crumbs, and baked, served with lightly dressed mesclun. In-house carbonated tap water: this filtered version of the East Bay Municipal Utility District offering first replaced conventional bottled water at the restaurant in summer 2006. Art of Chez Panisse Berkeley designer and printmaker David Lance Goines has illustrated many of the Chez Panisse posters and defined the visual brand in the 1970s and 1980s. The aesthetic for the brand was influenced by Ukiyo-e and the German Art Nouveau movement (German: Jugendstil). Patricia Curtan has been the designer and artist of many of the menus and some of the cookbooks for Chez Panisse, which were created as linocut prints. Curtan published the book Menus for Chez Panisse (2011). Notable alumni See also Greens Restaurant Moosewood Restaurant References External links The Green Gourmets: The Evolution of Chez Panisse Guide to the Chez Panisse Records, The Bancroft Library Buildings and structures in Berkeley, California Companies based in Berkeley, California Restaurants in Berkeley, California Restaurants established in