Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley Celebrates Millie Spenger’s 92nd Birthday
Free birthday cake for all guests
- When
- Thu Jul 9, 2009
- Where
- Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto
- Time
- 11:30 am - 10:00 pm
- Tags
- Restaurants
Description
July 9 is the 92nd birthday of Millie Spenger, the oldest living member of the family that founded Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley in 1890. In the spirit of the occasion, all Spenger’s guests visiting the restaurant on July 9 will receive a complimentary piece of birthday cake.When the Spenger family decided to retire from the restaurant business 8 years ago, they forged a partnership with Bill McCormick and Doug Schmick of McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants who have a love for historic dining spots and who spent five million dollars to painstakingly refurbish Spenger’s in honor of Millie and her husband Frank.
The Spenger family’s involvement with the seafood restaurant business began in 1865 when Johan Spenger, a fisherman from Bavaria, emigrated from Germany to the Bay Area and began fishing out of San Francisco. In the 1880’s he moved his family to Berkeley, ending up in the current location of Spenger’s on what was then the Fourth Street mud flats.
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