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North Berkeley and the Gourmet Ghetto: restaurant back doors on Shattuck, and hundred-year-old front doors on the streets behind them
Shattuck north of University with its bakeries, wine shops and dining rooms, quiet blocks of shingle and stucco houses one street back, and North Berkeley BART at the western edge.
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15 min
Avg. arrival
$89
Service call
24/7
Availability
The food businesses along Shattuck and Vine keep the commercial side of this district busy, and almost none of it is dramatic. A rear door onto the service alley that has to be shouldered to latch. An exit device on a dining room door that clicks but never catches its strike, which is a fire-code fault before it is anything else, priced at $269 to $725 per device. A front door cylinder that spins in its housing after ten years of turning with wet hands. Storefront hardware runs $139 to $435, and a business lockout at opening time, when the one key is with a cook who is not answering, is $119 to $219. Kitchens open early, so early calls are ordinary here rather than exceptional.
One street back the houses begin, and the hardware is older than anything on the avenue. Shingle and stucco houses from the 1900s and 1920s often still carry a mortise case in the door edge, sometimes with a modern pin cylinder fitted into it decades ago and sometimes not. Those cylinders rekey at $22 to $37 like any other when the case is sound; when the case has gummed up with old grease the fix is a cleaning and a spring rather than a new lock. Full lock replacement is $105 to $285 per door and is the answer only when the case is cracked or the maker is long gone. Around North Berkeley BART the calls turn automotive, with car lockouts at $89 to $159 in the station lots and on the residential streets where commuters park.
For a restaurant, say whether the door in question is the customer door, the alley door or the walk-in, and when the kitchen opens, so the visit lands before service. For a house, look at the door edge first: one long brass faceplate means a mortise case and the right parts ride along.
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One street over, the same van
FAQ
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How early can a restaurant on Shattuck get a visit?+
As early as the kitchen opens. Prep crews along Shattuck and Vine St are in before six, and a rear door that will not lock behind a delivery is better handled then than at noon with a dining room in it. Fifteen minutes is the usual run, and any hour before 7am carries the stated $70 inside the figure.
What is the usual reason a Gourmet Ghetto shop door stops locking?+
The closer, more often than the lock. On a door cycled a few hundred times a day the closer gradually stops pulling the leaf that last half inch, so the hookbolt or deadlatch never reaches its keeper. Adjusting the closer and moving the strike fixes more of these than new hardware does, and it is tried first.
Is North Berkeley BART covered for car calls?+
Yes, in the station lots and on the residential streets around them where commuters leave cars all day. A lockout there is $89 to $159 and a fob paired at the curb is $95 to $169. Say which side of the tracks you parked on, because the lots either side are reached by different streets.
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Calls answered 24/7 across Berkeley and the north East Bay. The $89 service call, the labour and the parts are inside the number you agree to, and nothing is added to it afterwards.