Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
Best of the East Bay 2008
Best Pharmacy
Elephant Pharmacy
Though its original store on Shattuck opened as recently as 2002, Elephant feels as quintessentially Berkeley as People's Park: one of those places that would make an out-of-towner feel like he's in a foreign country or different decade. A pharmacy, DVD rental shop, florist, grocery store, yoga studio, and veritable community center, Elephant Pharmacy offers a higher-end, hippiefied version of normal drugstore staples (all-natural cosmetics, chemical-free cleaning supplies, organic dietary supplements), as well as an extensive selection of health and wellness books, a good-size grocery department, a bulk supply of every herb imaginable, and a few onsite experts: aestheticians, herbalists and registered nurses, to name a few. On any given day, shoppers can stop in for a Pilates class, tea tasting, or cholesterol screening — all for free. If the entire city was shut down, we could subsist for weeks on Elephant's services alone.
(Sorry, no information is currently available for other years in this same award category.)
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