Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto is a historic building and was a seafood restaurant active from 1890 to 2018, at 1919 4th Street in Berkeley, California.
[3] The menu originally included clam chowder, baked beans, fish dinners and ten-cent beer.
Eventually, dining rooms and bars were added as part of the expansion process as popularity of the restaurant grew.
"[3] At the age of 83 in 1998, Buddy Spenger sold the business to McCormick & Schmick's a seafood restaurant chain based in Portland, Oregon.
[9] Part of the renovation included replacing the original 1930s electrical system and retrofitting unreinforced brick walls with steel beams to comply with California's earthquake prevention standards.
[13] The "Star of Denmark" was allegedly found in 1885 in the Kimberley mines in North Cape, South Africa that was once gifted from Alexandra of Denmark to Queen Kapi'olani of Hawaii after the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1887);[14][13][7] however the story of this diamond has some variations, and the authenticity of the story has been questioned by historians.