Oggi Restaurant & Wine Bar

If Italian comfort food was looking for a foothold in the gourmet ghetto of Berkeley, it found one. A popular dessert and wine bar has embraced its savory side, as Cioccolata Di Vino reinvents itself as Oggi, offering cicchetti, salads, pasta, pizza and hearty rustic dishes like polenta Bolognese and balsamic glazed baby back ribs. There’s live jazz every Friday night and enough decadent desserts to send a recovering chocoholic back into rehab.