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OAKLAND BARS & BITES DINING GUIDE VISITOAKLAND.ORG 7 MEALS IN 3 DAYS | THE BOOZE BOOM visitoakland.org | 1 2 | OaklandOaOaklklanand BarsBaBarsrs & BitesBititeses DiningDiDininingng GGuideuiu dede 2201601016 Table of CONTENTS GUIDE'S PHOTO CREDITS: Rachel Hall 6 OAKLAND 2 WAYS 8 THE BOOZE BOOM 12 MENUS THAT TAKE YOU ON A CULINARY TRIP 16 7 MEALS IN 3 DAYS 20 OAKLAND FOODS WITHOUT BORDERS 26 RESTAURANTS & BARS A PUBLICATION OF 344 W. Turkeyfoot Lake Rd., Ste. B Akron, OH 44319 800.594.9620 [email protected] 481 Water Street | Oakland, CA 94607 www.lunarcow.com visitoakland.org | #oaklandloveit | visitoakland.org | 3 4 | OaklandOaklk and BarsBars & BitesBites DiningDiningg GGuideuide 2201601016 visitoakland.org | 5 OAKLAND TWO WAYS 6 | Oakland Bars & Bites Dining Guide 2016 YOU DON’T HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THE TRADITIONAL – OR, RATHER, YES YOU CAN. IN OAKLAND, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR FOOD WHATEVER WAY YOU WANT. Oakland is known for being a bit outlandish. In that way, we’ll excuse a visitor for thinking you can get anything too traditional here. Oh wait … Surprise! Turns out the chefs here can not only do deviled eggs, ravioli, and roast beef but they’ve been perfecting their techniques for decades. Then there are those chefs who like to, you know, disrupt things like macaroni and cheese and chicken wings. We don’t judge. Choose the style that suits your mood: IF YOU WANT... SEAFOOD BARBECUE SLOPPY MEXICAN PASTA JOE-STYLE SOUL-WARMING SANDWICHES OLD SCHOOL, GO TO... Scott’s Seafood Everett & Jones Brown Sugar Doña Tomás Genova Deli on the waterfront flaming the fires down home in pioneering Temescal fattening Temescal in Jack London since 1973. West Oakland since 1999. up since 1926. Mangia! since 1976. since 2008. AND TRY... The famous Beef brisket over Pulled barbecue Carne asada, a Meat ravioli with Dungeness crab oak chips with a pork sandwich grilled bavette Nonni Gravy and seafood little or a lotta goop with spicy cabbage steak with shishito (crushed tomatoes, cioppino, and fresh (it’s a special sauce), slaw, and an peppers, black porcini, and sausage). shucked oysters. and cornbread. Arnold Palmer. beans and tortillas. NEW SCHOOL, GO TO... Jack’s Oysters Hawker’s Fare Juhu Beach Club Nido Kitchen on Homeroom on the waterfront sharing meals in a Temescal strip the outer edge fattening up the same in Jack London Asian-family style mall since 2013. of Jack London town (Temescal) since 2014. since 2011. since 2013. since 2011. AND TRY... Wild salmon Gai Yang, or A pork vindalated Tasajo asado, Gilroy Mac, made bahn-mi with veggie barbecue chicken pav, a pulled pork grilled steak with with gouda, sharp chips, and fresh Thai style, with slider with vindaloo Oaxacan chorizo pecorino and shucked oysters spices, lemongrass barbecue sauce, with guacamole, roasted garlic. from the East and sweet chili cilantro yogurt quesillo, queso Coast and the West. sauce, with a side slaw, and a glass fresco & chile of chicken fat rice. of Darjeeling Ltd. pasilla salsa. visitoakland.org | 7 BoozeThe BOOM 8 | Oakland Bars & Bites Dining Guide 2016 OAKLAND’S TRUE SPIRIT CAN BE hour trail; the winemaker is not part of a FOUND IN ONE OF THE TAP OR dynasty but city folk. “It feels more like TASTING ROOMS. you’re having a glass of wine in a friend’s living room,” says Larisa Martiniak of Sure, California wine country is nice, but a the wineries in the city. She works at day of wine tasting there requires a well- Two Mile Wines, a tasting room in the laid out plan, particularly on the weekend. Uptown neighborhood. To go wine tasting in Oakland? It simply requires desire. The co-owner and winemaker of Two Mile, Adam Nelson, presses, barrels and bottles In case you didn’t know, Oakland has a varietals like Syrah, Pinot, and Sangiovese dozen tasting rooms smattered around a couple doors down from his tasting the city, predominately in Jack London room in the 25th Street Collective, an Square. All of them together form the incubator for the maker crowd. Oakland Urban Wine Trail. “You’d be shocked to discover what’s inside It’s true, you won’t see any vineyards out a warehouse on Auto Row,” says Martiniak, back – the grapes that make these wines referring to the tons of grapes from Paso come from better-known places (Napa, Robles, Napa, and Sonoma being stored Sonoma) – but you also won’t see any behind closed doors. pretention. The person tasting alongside you is more than likely a local on the happy visitoakland.org | 9 The warehouses in Auto Row, and in Jack fell in love with its strong heritage and London, are ideal for storing equipment, family culture. Generations have grown barrels, and grapes, which are trucked in up here. “Parents are taking their children from Napa, Sonoma, Santa Ynez, Santa to get ice cream at the same place where Maria, and Paso Robles, among others. they got ice cream as a kid.” Stage Left Cellars even goes as far north The move to Oakland immediately had Ale as Oregon. That’s the freedom of making Industries using their creativity. To meet in Oakland, says another winemaker. We’re air quality regulations for a new boiler, not bound by allegiance to a certain area— they were going to have to pay more money as winemakers who live in certain wine than either partner had. They decided countries have to be. to make it all run on biofuel. The delivery As of fall 2015, Two Mile is also forging vehicle carrying cases of Golden State another spiritual path. Nelson will start of Mind, Cherry Kush, or East Bay IPA? distilling and bottling gin in the warehouse It’s running on vegetable oil. Now, that’s space. Oakland Spirits is the second for soooo Oakland. the city. First came Wright and Brown Distilling Company. This grandpappy of the scene started in summer 2015 in West Oakland, the first since Prohibition. Since WB is making barrel-aged spirits, including rye and brandy, only time will tell. If you are thirsty right now, though, catch the BART to Fruitvale. Steps from the station is the Jingletown Jazz Room, a tap room that is as fun as it sounds. Brewers Morgan Cox and Steven Lopez moved their fermentation facility for Ale Industries to Oakland from another East Bay city in 2012. “I lived in Oakland and saw how the city was becoming much more maker centric. I wanted to be a part of that ‘Can Do Spirit,’” Cox explains of the move. Fruitvale wasn’t the first choice for location, but once Cox saw the neighborhood, he 10 | Oakland Bars & Bites Dining Guide 2016 DASHE CELLARS 55 4th St., Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 452-1800 dashecellars.com Tasting Room Hours: Thurs - Sun 12:00pm - 6:00pm Specializing in balanced, food-friendly wines, Dashe Cellars is famous for its friendly atmosphere where relationships flourish over a glass of wine. THAT TAKE MENUSYOU ON A CULINARY TRIP 12 | Oakland Bars & Bites Dining Guide 2016 CHEFS JEN BIESTY AND NELSON GERMAN COOK FANTASTICALLY OAKLAND DELICIOUS FOOD THAT IS GROUNDED IN OTHER CULTURES. has taught me EAT IT AND TRAVEL AFAR. { { You could eat brunch at Shakewell. It is, after all, the most popular meal at the SHAKEWELL: Bold flavors and spices. Lake Merritt restaurant. Chef Jen Biesty’s ALAMAR: That there is inspiration to be famous twist on chicken and waffles is found in the street food of other cultures. ordered obsessively: chicken and churros. That there’s inspiration to be found within Did you, too, feel that pang, imagining my own roots and that I can represent yourself biting into a pillow-like, yet crusty this authenticity through art, whether it be churro draped with buttermilk syrup? Do food, music, writing, etc. brunch, though, and you could miss the essence of the Shakewell experience: the well spiced, piquant even (sriracha yogurt), Mediterranean small plates, followed by OAKLAND a bit of bomba, a rice dish with various topping, like pork belly, cascabel chili glaze would have my and chicharrones. You wouldn’t want to HEART if I took miss that. Ditto for alaMar. At lunch, the Dominican rice bowl with blackened tilapia’s got a kick. But dinner? That’s off the MENU the true saucy score. Platters of manila clams with Mexican chorizo, or peel ’n eat barbecued Gulf shrimp, or a whole fish SHAKEWELL: Chicken and churros. A with Romesco sauce to share among friends. creative twist to the traditional chicken and waffles. Avocado toast for brunch. All we can say is that we’re glad these two The freshest avos, with sea salt, olive oil, New Yorkers found their way to the West and cilantro. Coast. Since the two have traveled all over the world and chose Oakland as the city ALAMAR: Tender braised angus oxtail, to settle in in 2014, we put them on the with the tamari-spiked sauce sopped spot with a few fill-in-the-blank questions. up with Firebrand Artisan sourdough (They had nothing but nice things to say.) bread. I learned the secret to making oxtail from my mother. visitoakland.org | 13 BECAUSE OF On your DAY OFF, in WHERE do you OAKLAND {explore the FOOD? { my FOOD is SHAKEWELL: In East Lake (east of better/different Lake Merritt). There’s a large Asian population, so a lot of flavors. It reminds me of what the Tenderloin in San Francisco SHAKEWELL: Oaktown Spice Shop. It used to be. Champa Garden has a Laotian has introduced me to spices from around version of Thai dishes like pad Thai.