Caffe Mediterraneum
Coordinates: 37°51′56.16″N 122°15′30.3″W / 37.8656000°N 122.258417°W
Caffè Mediterraneum, often referred to as Caffè Med or simply the Med, is a café located on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, USA, near the University of California, Berkeley. The Med is a landmark of Telegraph Avenue history, "listed for years in European guidebooks as 'the gathering place for 1960s radicals who created People's Park'" and as of 2009 described in Fodor's guidebook as "a relic of 1960s-era café culture." It is located at 2475 Telegraph Avenue, between Haste Street and Dwight Way.
Established as a coffeehouse inside a bookstore in 1956 under the name Il Piccolo by Maxine Chitarin before later being renamed, the Med is "one of the oldest coffeehouses in the Bay Area" and "the oldest coffeehouse in the East Bay."
The café's website maintains that "Lino Meiorin, one of the owners, was the first Italian-trained barista in the Bay Area. Customers were not used to the strong flavor of a traditional Italian cappuccino and would ask Lino for more milk. Speaking in Italian, he would tell the barista to put more latte (milk) in their cup. Finally he thought of putting a larger drink on the menu with the same amount of espresso but more steamed milk, and calling it a caffè latte."
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