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Enjoy coffee with hints of cardamom, ginger and cinnamon or teas mixed with nutmeg, cloves and cream as late as midnight at these new East Bay spots.

Supriya Yelimeli looks forward to visiting a crowded dining room at Viks Chaat for cholle bhature — then going back in line for sweets and seconds. Photo: Mighty Travels/Flickr Our final installment of year-end food reflections focuses on the future — hopefully, the not-so-distant future — when we can safely eat, drink and gather again in restaurants and with others outside our immediate households without masks. Below, you’ll find the hopes and wishes of Nosh, Berkeleyside, Oaklandside...

The Peruvian chicken dinner from Michoz, a pop-up operating out of Hidden Cafe in Berkeley, was a memorable feast. Photo: Sarah Han Usually, around this time of year, we’re feeling pretty good. We’re buzzing with a sense of joy and relaxation, spending time with family and friends, gathering and eating meals together and looking back on the fun times we had over the last 12 months. After almost a full year of living with COVID-19, those halcyon holiday times seem so distant from our current...