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Caffe Mediterraneum, often referred to as Caffe Med or simply the Med, is a famous café located on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, near the University of California, Berkeley.

The Med is an emblematic landmark of Telegraph Avenue history, "listed for years in European guidebooks as 'the gathering place for 1960s radical who created People's Park'", it is now listed in Fodor's guidebook as "a relic of 1960s-era café culture." It is located at 2475 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, 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." During the 1960s, the Med featured a diverse crowd of patrons, and it became a meeting place for Beat Generation artists, intellectuals, Black Power advocates, and activists who were taking part in the Free Speech Movement and post-FSM activism. During this era, the Med also played a role in two important pieces of art.

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Allen Ginsburg was a regular at the Med, and wrote Howl on the premises of the Med. Though the owner at the time initially refused access to the film crews, a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman was also filmed at a table in the Med, with Telegraph Avenue visible outside the window.Of Telegraph Avenue, "many city officials and merchants say the avenue has lost its vibrancy" since the 1960s, but "until the 1990s, the Med thrived as a center for conversation and caffeine." Changes in ownership took a toll though, and at that point, employees say the Med "took a turn for the worse" as it was "bordering on a homeless shelter." However, with another change in ownership 2006, the Med is again "a destination for activists seeking social change."Soon after the Med's inception, owner Lino Meiorin made history, as for the first time espresso-based lattes were offered as a standard coffee drink. The invention of the latte is commemorated in the Med, with a sign on the wall reading:.

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