Food
Specialty Foods, Inc., Oakland’s first African grocery, marks 40 years in business.
Brandon Peacock is now captain of a ship. That ship is actually a restaurant—Eve’s Waterfront, the newest establishment to inhabit the waterfront property on the edge of Jack London Square. Peacock isn’t known for any particular style of food—whatever he does, he does well, whether it’s ramen from scratch, decadent mac and cheese, short ribs or rotisserie chicken. “The entire menu is new,” said Peacock. “I try to change as much as possible and take a new approach is on…
“Just because it’s imperfect doesn’t mean its bad.”
Late night bites can soon be a reality for anyone who purchases a ticket to a New Parish show.
On March 22, Impossible Foods launched a burger manufacturing facility in East Oakland. All burgers are plant-based, and they’re a bit pricy.
Protest sends a message about what is happening and how business owners are fighting for people who work for them.
Some 300 to 400 people attend the Japan Beer Festival in Oakland every year.
Oakland’s 7th annual Restaurant Week is underway with over 100 participating restaurants in neighborhoods across the city.
Over the last year and a half, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has been making an effort to deepen its science, technology, engineering and math programs, but so far it has had to depend on donations from corporations to fund much of them. The district’s efforts to bring so-called STEM education to students have been funded in no small part by grants from Intel and Salesforce, in addition to partnerships with Code.org and the Oakland mayor’s office, among others. According…