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The annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland’s Jack London Square seems to always luck out with the weather, providing the perfect environment to enjoy the last weekend of summer with sunshine and good eats.
My exhibit above are just some of the sights and sounds from this year’s event. […]
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There’s a definite formula to the Farmhouse Thai restaurants: tropical colors in the decor, festive mood, and spicy Thai street food.
That pretty much sums up the group’s latest opening — Farmhouse Kitchen Thai in Oakland’s Jack London Square. After dining at its sister restaurant Daughter’s Thai (there’s also a Farmhouse Kitchen in San […]
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This weekend was the annual Oakland food event, the Eat Real Festival 2018 in Jack London Square. The three-day festival shrunk a bit from previous years, so I had some rumblings from people who felt there weren’t enough interesting vendors and food trucks to check out. But when I […]
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It was another weekend of checking out a food festival, but this time it was closer to home as I explored and ate my way through Oakland’s Eat Real Festival 2017 at Jack London Square.
The annual food celebration that highlights food trucks often luck out with warm weather, and it hit […]
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In the Bay Area, when you’re looking for summer, head east.
That theory played out well when CUESA, the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture, hosted its last cocktails event for the year last night with its summer edition, “Party Under the Palms.” For the first time, this popular farmers market cocktail event took […]
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This weekend in Oakland is a major food bonanza in Jack London Square by the waterfront.
Crowds of people are taking advantage of the unusually warm weather to be outside and eating from food booths at the annual Eat Real Festival, a showcase of sustainable foods from local restaurants and food trucks.
But toward […]
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The story: Haven in Oakland is part of Daniel Patterson’s restaurant group, opened three years ago in Jack London Square offering seasonal California cuisine. Recently the restaurant had some chef shuffles, with the opening chef (Kim Alter) moving on and Patterson bringing back Charlie Parker, who opened Patterson’s former Plum restaurant and most recently worked […]
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UPDATE: The restaurant quietly closed in November 2016.
The story: Chef/Owner Rick Hackett opened the Pan American-influenced Bocanova at Oakland’s Jack London Square more than five years ago, and late last year expanded by opening Jack’s Oyster Bar and Fish House next door. With Executive Chef Peter Villegas (formerly of La Mar) and pastry […]
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Update: After changing hands a year earlier, the restaurant closed at the end of February 2020.
The story: Lungomare is a restaurant that opened up in the former Miss Pearl’s space in the heart of Oakland’s Jack London Square, specializing in Northern Italian cuisine with an emphasis on seafood. The restaurant is the bold gamble of […]
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I’ve made it known that I don’t really get excited by Mexican food, even though California has some of the best Mexican food in the country (probably after Texas). I’ve explained to friends that I just feel the ingredients in typical Mexican seems pretty much the same: beans, rice, tortilla, tomatoes.
So my friends often […]
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It was perfect weather this weekend for the annual Eat Real Fest in Oakland, providing sunny and warm (but not hot) days for the crowds mingling around Jack London Square eating from food booths and trucks.
This three-day event is always a bit more manageable than the San Francisco version, which happens on just […]
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There are tons of thin-crust pizza options these days, so how does a pizza restaurant break out from the pack? Add a waterfront view and outdoor patio.
That’s the winning formula for the relatively new Forge Pizza in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The spacious restaurant has outdoor seating equipped with fire pits for the cool […]
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Oakland’s Jack London Square has been hoping for a revival, and it’ll probably be the many new restaurants opening in this waterfront area that will save the day.
So it’s only fitting that the area was the featured neighborhood of last night’s Dishcrawl, a food event that guides food lovers around four mystery restaurants in […]
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Seems like the bagel is the latest hot comfort food in these parts, with several new bagel shops opening up – especially in Oakland.
One that got a lot of buzz when it first opened a few months ago is Beauty’s Bagel Shop on Telegraph Avenue (a couple of blocks from the MacArthur BART station). […]
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