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"content": "\u003cp>If it seems difficult to keep up with all the new breweries opening and closing, it's not just you. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiacraftbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Craft Brewers Association\u003c/a>, there are more than 750 craft breweries in operation across California, more than any other state in the country. And the Bay Area has been a particular hub, with new breweries and taprooms opening across the East, South, and North Bays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Add to your list:\u003c/strong> Formerly Linden Street Brewing, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandunitedbeerworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland United Beerworks\u003c/a> will also be reopening later this summer near Jack London Square. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speakeasy\u003c/a>, which closed its taproom earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/insidescoop/article/Speakeasy-Ales-Lagers-workers-get-back-wages-11136151.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sold its assets to Hunters Point Brewery\u003c/a> and should reopen its public serving too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we can't accurately capture all the beer halls, taprooms, pubs, breweries, and patios where you can enjoy a cold brew and all the ones coming soon, here's a list of some of the best new spots and oldies. If we missed your favorite, share it in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg\" alt=\"The taps at Magnolia Brewery\" width=\"1440\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The taps at Magnolia Brewery \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Magnolia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mikkellerbar.com/sf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikkeller Bar\u003c/a> (Tenderloin): With a location in L.A. and one in San Francisco, this beer hall has 42 taps and unique bottles from around the world. The kitchen serves high-end pub grub until 11 p.m. every night.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thebeerhallsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beer Hall\u003c/a> (Mid-Market): With 20 rotating taps (primarily California brews and some one-of-a-kind), you come here first and foremost for the beer. There are also a few wines and plates, but the spot is small and can get crowded right after work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://thirstybear.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thirsty Bear Brewing Company\u003c/a> (SoMa): One of the oldest breweries in the city and the first craft brewer to be certified organic in San Francisco, it typically has 10 of its beers on tap — meant to be paired with the seasonal tapas they serve.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cellarmakerbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cellarmaker Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (SoMa): Bar seating, a few tables, and their own beers on tap, it's about the tasting flights. You can bring in your own food or order from one of the nearby restaurants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://magnoliabrewing.com/haight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery\u003c/a> (Upper Haight): Considered one of the best craft breweries in San Francisco, Magnolia serves a rotating round-up of its best beers with its gastropub fare.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.southernpacificbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Pacific Brewing\u003c/a> (Mission): In a 10,000 square foot converted warehouse, Southern Pacific has created a popular indoor and outdoor space. Eat from the full menu and enjoy a house beer from their barrels or from one of the guest brewers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zeitgeistsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeitgeist\u003c/a> (Mission): With 40 beers on tap, an outdoor beer garden, and a grill that's always serving, this is a San Francisco laid-back classic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://monkskettle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monk's Kettle\u003c/a> (Mission): It's your neighborhood tavern, if your neighborhood spot is fancy and amazing. There are daily food specials, like a fresh sandwich served until 4 p.m. and a dinner entree. Try a beer from the 28 taps, the one cask engine, and over 100 specialty bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://biergartensf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biergarten\u003c/a> (Hayes Valley): Opened almost six years ago in the then up-and-coming Hayes Valley, Biergarten is now a beer garden staple. Share a bench and a blanket to ward off the chill, and grab a brat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woods Beer Co.\u003c/a> (Mission, Russian Hill, Outer Sunset and Oakland): Woods does small batches of experimental and \"adventurous\" beers, like one inspired by Girl Scout cookies. Its flagship in the Mission is named after the company's first IPA, the MateVeza. In Oakland, its a bar and brewery, and on Treasure Island there's \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsbeer.com/island-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a unique club spot\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fortpointbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Point Beer Company\u003c/a> (Ferry Building): Founded in 2014 by two brothers and with a brewery housed in a historic Presidio building, Fort Point has built a reputation for fresh and aromatic beers. The duo recently opened a taproom in the Ferry Building where you can sit at the bar and enjoy one of their taps.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg\" alt=\"Fieldworks' Spastic Art Farmhouse Ale\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fieldworks' Spastic Art Farmhouse Ale \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fieldwork Brewing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>East Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://factionbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faction Brewing\u003c/a> (Alameda): Started as a brewhouse in an old airplane hangar, Faction now has a tasting room, rotating taps (with something almost always new), and a patio that looks out over the San Francisco skyline. Plus, there are usually food trucks in the parking lot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fieldworkbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fieldwork Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (Berkeley): With five locations -- including taprooms in Napa, Monterey, Sacramento, and San Ramon -- Fieldwork has become the go-to for local craft aficionados. Want to enjoy your beer on an adventure? You can pre-order their signature beers in 32 oz and 64 oz crowlers for same-day pick up.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.westbraebiergarten.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westbrae Biergarten\u003c/a> (Berkeley): This outdoor beer garden has eight rotating local beer taps, as well as hard ciders, wine, mead, and seasonal specials, like house-made sangria. There are guest food trucks on weekends and a Latin American menu always.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hoipolloibrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoi Polloi Brewing Taproom and Beat Lounge\u003c/a> (Berkeley): Pouring until 2 a.m., this small bar has turntables and unlimited truffle popcorn. House beers and other local crafts on tap. Try the coffee porter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drinkdrakes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake's Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Oakland, San Leandro): Brewing since 1989, Drake's recently opened Drake's Dealership on Broadway has become a popular spot for sunny afternoons and brick-oven pizza. Or, check out their Barrel House in San Leandro.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.divingdogbrew.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diving Dog Brewhouse\u003c/a> (Oakland): Along with 30 taps (and two nitros), Diving Dog has everything you need to brew your own beer on site. Try your hand at their recipes or whip up your own, and then drink what you make.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lostandfound510.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost & Found\u003c/a> (Oakland): This beer garden has 15 drafts, plus sours, draft wines, and kombucha. There are also small plates like deviled eggs and tacos. While you're sitting on the outdoor patio, enjoy some ping-pong table and bean bag toss.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.novelbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novel Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (Oakland): The wife-husband team that opened the brewery in 2016 also live in the neighborhood, which gives it a local feel. It's small, filled with books and games, and low-key, with the beers brewed on site. Trivia nights happen monthly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.temescalbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temescal Brewing\u003c/a> (Oakland): With \"no jerks\" as the official motto, this is a small community spot. A handful of their drafts on tap and beer garden make it an easy spot to enjoy a cold beer outside with friends. Food trucks nearby or bring your own food.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://bierha.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bierhaus\u003c/a> (Oakland): Simple and classic, this former Mountain View spot recently relocated to Oakland. Enjoy picnic tables, beer, brats and burgers. OK, there are some plates and pretzels too.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://altamontbeerworks.com/1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altamont Beer Works\u003c/a> (Livermore): Billing itself as Livermore's first craft brewery since Prohibition, Altamont makes a number of specialty beers and unique flavors, like the hoppy Ganja Juice and the Hella Lite.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://tap-25.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tap 25\u003c/a> (Livermore): The name comes from the 25 American craft beers taps that change daily. Try a tasting, sit on the patio, and enjoy the live music on Thursdays and Saturdays.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg\" alt=\"A Loma Brewing beer flight.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-768x575.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Loma Brewing beer flight. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Loma Brewing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>South Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lomabrew.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loma Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Los Gatos): In the large space formerly occupied by the Los Gatos Brewing Company, Loma opened last August from two brothers: a former MLB player and a Bay Area restauranteur (with help from a chef and a beermaker). Expect high-end bar food and entrees, and eight home beers on tap. And don't miss beer and yoga day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbbrewingco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Moon Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Half Moon Bay): Being right on the water, near Half Moon Bay’s famous beaches and surfing spots, may be part of this restaurant and brewery's appeal. You can also take a brewery tour and enjoy house beers. Or visit their \u003ca href=\"http://pacificstandardtaproom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Standard taproom\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gourmethausstaudt.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gourmet Haus\u003c/a> (Redwood City): In the back of a German specialty store, the beer garden serves up authentic beers, sausages, and pretzels -- along with 10 German beers and three guest taps.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://steinsbeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steins Beer Garden\u003c/a> (Mountain View and Cupertino): This is an American take on the German biergarten. Along with fresh local food, there are 31 taps (16 house beers and 15 rotating). There's also an annual homebrew contest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://hermitagebrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hermitage Brewing Company\u003c/a> (San Jose): Hermitage has been brewing since 1987 and its volume (for various brands) actually puts it in the top 5% in the country. At the warehouse's taproom, you can enjoy 16 of their house brews or fill-up your growlers. The spot promises games, beers, sometimes food trucks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strikebrewingco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strike Brewing Company\u003c/a> (San Jose): Right next to the baseball stadium, the seasonal and experimental craft brews are named for America's pastime. Food trucks visit regularly and, during art night, you can paint while you drink.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scvbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara Valley Brewing\u003c/a> (San Jose): The names of the beers get their inspiration from local landmarks, as do the flavors. Try a flight of their homebrews in their taproom near downtown.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg\" alt=\"Crooked Goat tasting pours.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crooked Goat tasting pours. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Crooked Goat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>North Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Larkspur): Across from the Golden Gate Ferry, Marin Brew Co. has a large outdoor area for enjoying beers and burgers and weekly music.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ironspringspub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Springs \u003c/a>(Fairfax): In the heart of Fairfax, Iron Springs is usually filled on weekends with cyclists and families post-hike, either sitting inside the restaurant or at one of the few picnic tables in front. The beers are award-winning and the pub has a full menu. Last year, the brewery opened a taproom in San Rafael.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lagunitas.com/taprooms/petaluma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagunitas Taproom\u003c/a> (Petaluma): Lagunitas Brewing Company has grown and expanded in recent years, and the popularity of this outdoor Petaluma tasting spot has grown too. Music most days, tours every day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://brewstersbeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brewsters Beer Garden\u003c/a> (Petaluma): Located in the historic downtown area, Brewsters has 32 beers on tap and a patio garden with a children's play area and a bocce ball court.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gravsouthbrewco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grav South Brew Co\u003c/a> (Cotati): Up in Cotati, Grav South Brewery is going strong with 16 taps -- half its own house brews and half other local Sonoma County beers. Plus, a small menu of meats smoked in-house.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crookedgoatbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooked Goat\u003c/a> (Sebastopol): After starting with small batches for family and friends, Crooked Goat grew and eventually took over a small taproom at \u003ca href=\"http://thebarlow.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Barlow\u003c/a>. You can also bring food in from the other shops. The 16 taps change regularly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://barrelbrothersbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrel Brothers Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Windsor): Started by brothers-in-law with their father-in-law, Barrel Brothers Brewing Company uses sustainable practices like donating spent grain to local farmers and trapping wastewater for fertilizer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If it seems difficult to keep up with all the new breweries opening and closing, it's not just you. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiacraftbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Craft Brewers Association\u003c/a>, there are more than 750 craft breweries in operation across California, more than any other state in the country. And the Bay Area has been a particular hub, with new breweries and taprooms opening across the East, South, and North Bays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Add to your list:\u003c/strong> Formerly Linden Street Brewing, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandunitedbeerworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland United Beerworks\u003c/a> will also be reopening later this summer near Jack London Square. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speakeasy\u003c/a>, which closed its taproom earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/insidescoop/article/Speakeasy-Ales-Lagers-workers-get-back-wages-11136151.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sold its assets to Hunters Point Brewery\u003c/a> and should reopen its public serving too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we can't accurately capture all the beer halls, taprooms, pubs, breweries, and patios where you can enjoy a cold brew and all the ones coming soon, here's a list of some of the best new spots and oldies. If we missed your favorite, share it in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg\" alt=\"The taps at Magnolia Brewery\" width=\"1440\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/16587023_10154142052107653_716059604614428433_o-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The taps at Magnolia Brewery \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Magnolia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mikkellerbar.com/sf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikkeller Bar\u003c/a> (Tenderloin): With a location in L.A. and one in San Francisco, this beer hall has 42 taps and unique bottles from around the world. The kitchen serves high-end pub grub until 11 p.m. every night.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thebeerhallsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beer Hall\u003c/a> (Mid-Market): With 20 rotating taps (primarily California brews and some one-of-a-kind), you come here first and foremost for the beer. There are also a few wines and plates, but the spot is small and can get crowded right after work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://thirstybear.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thirsty Bear Brewing Company\u003c/a> (SoMa): One of the oldest breweries in the city and the first craft brewer to be certified organic in San Francisco, it typically has 10 of its beers on tap — meant to be paired with the seasonal tapas they serve.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cellarmakerbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cellarmaker Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (SoMa): Bar seating, a few tables, and their own beers on tap, it's about the tasting flights. You can bring in your own food or order from one of the nearby restaurants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://magnoliabrewing.com/haight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery\u003c/a> (Upper Haight): Considered one of the best craft breweries in San Francisco, Magnolia serves a rotating round-up of its best beers with its gastropub fare.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.southernpacificbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Pacific Brewing\u003c/a> (Mission): In a 10,000 square foot converted warehouse, Southern Pacific has created a popular indoor and outdoor space. Eat from the full menu and enjoy a house beer from their barrels or from one of the guest brewers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zeitgeistsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeitgeist\u003c/a> (Mission): With 40 beers on tap, an outdoor beer garden, and a grill that's always serving, this is a San Francisco laid-back classic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://monkskettle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monk's Kettle\u003c/a> (Mission): It's your neighborhood tavern, if your neighborhood spot is fancy and amazing. There are daily food specials, like a fresh sandwich served until 4 p.m. and a dinner entree. Try a beer from the 28 taps, the one cask engine, and over 100 specialty bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://biergartensf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biergarten\u003c/a> (Hayes Valley): Opened almost six years ago in the then up-and-coming Hayes Valley, Biergarten is now a beer garden staple. Share a bench and a blanket to ward off the chill, and grab a brat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woods Beer Co.\u003c/a> (Mission, Russian Hill, Outer Sunset and Oakland): Woods does small batches of experimental and \"adventurous\" beers, like one inspired by Girl Scout cookies. Its flagship in the Mission is named after the company's first IPA, the MateVeza. In Oakland, its a bar and brewery, and on Treasure Island there's \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsbeer.com/island-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a unique club spot\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fortpointbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Point Beer Company\u003c/a> (Ferry Building): Founded in 2014 by two brothers and with a brewery housed in a historic Presidio building, Fort Point has built a reputation for fresh and aromatic beers. The duo recently opened a taproom in the Ferry Building where you can sit at the bar and enjoy one of their taps.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg\" alt=\"Fieldworks' Spastic Art Farmhouse Ale\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/18359081_1980208658864055_4762605061366130018_o-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fieldworks' Spastic Art Farmhouse Ale \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fieldwork Brewing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>East Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://factionbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faction Brewing\u003c/a> (Alameda): Started as a brewhouse in an old airplane hangar, Faction now has a tasting room, rotating taps (with something almost always new), and a patio that looks out over the San Francisco skyline. Plus, there are usually food trucks in the parking lot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fieldworkbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fieldwork Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (Berkeley): With five locations -- including taprooms in Napa, Monterey, Sacramento, and San Ramon -- Fieldwork has become the go-to for local craft aficionados. Want to enjoy your beer on an adventure? You can pre-order their signature beers in 32 oz and 64 oz crowlers for same-day pick up.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.westbraebiergarten.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westbrae Biergarten\u003c/a> (Berkeley): This outdoor beer garden has eight rotating local beer taps, as well as hard ciders, wine, mead, and seasonal specials, like house-made sangria. There are guest food trucks on weekends and a Latin American menu always.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hoipolloibrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoi Polloi Brewing Taproom and Beat Lounge\u003c/a> (Berkeley): Pouring until 2 a.m., this small bar has turntables and unlimited truffle popcorn. House beers and other local crafts on tap. Try the coffee porter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://drinkdrakes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake's Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Oakland, San Leandro): Brewing since 1989, Drake's recently opened Drake's Dealership on Broadway has become a popular spot for sunny afternoons and brick-oven pizza. Or, check out their Barrel House in San Leandro.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.divingdogbrew.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diving Dog Brewhouse\u003c/a> (Oakland): Along with 30 taps (and two nitros), Diving Dog has everything you need to brew your own beer on site. Try your hand at their recipes or whip up your own, and then drink what you make.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lostandfound510.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost & Found\u003c/a> (Oakland): This beer garden has 15 drafts, plus sours, draft wines, and kombucha. There are also small plates like deviled eggs and tacos. While you're sitting on the outdoor patio, enjoy some ping-pong table and bean bag toss.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.novelbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novel Brewing Co.\u003c/a> (Oakland): The wife-husband team that opened the brewery in 2016 also live in the neighborhood, which gives it a local feel. It's small, filled with books and games, and low-key, with the beers brewed on site. Trivia nights happen monthly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.temescalbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temescal Brewing\u003c/a> (Oakland): With \"no jerks\" as the official motto, this is a small community spot. A handful of their drafts on tap and beer garden make it an easy spot to enjoy a cold beer outside with friends. Food trucks nearby or bring your own food.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://bierha.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bierhaus\u003c/a> (Oakland): Simple and classic, this former Mountain View spot recently relocated to Oakland. Enjoy picnic tables, beer, brats and burgers. OK, there are some plates and pretzels too.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://altamontbeerworks.com/1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altamont Beer Works\u003c/a> (Livermore): Billing itself as Livermore's first craft brewery since Prohibition, Altamont makes a number of specialty beers and unique flavors, like the hoppy Ganja Juice and the Hella Lite.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://tap-25.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tap 25\u003c/a> (Livermore): The name comes from the 25 American craft beers taps that change daily. Try a tasting, sit on the patio, and enjoy the live music on Thursdays and Saturdays.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg\" alt=\"A Loma Brewing beer flight.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-768x575.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/17637100_633334503542893_7077233230076173421_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Loma Brewing beer flight. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Loma Brewing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>South Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lomabrew.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loma Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Los Gatos): In the large space formerly occupied by the Los Gatos Brewing Company, Loma opened last August from two brothers: a former MLB player and a Bay Area restauranteur (with help from a chef and a beermaker). Expect high-end bar food and entrees, and eight home beers on tap. And don't miss beer and yoga day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbbrewingco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Moon Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Half Moon Bay): Being right on the water, near Half Moon Bay’s famous beaches and surfing spots, may be part of this restaurant and brewery's appeal. You can also take a brewery tour and enjoy house beers. Or visit their \u003ca href=\"http://pacificstandardtaproom.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Standard taproom\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gourmethausstaudt.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gourmet Haus\u003c/a> (Redwood City): In the back of a German specialty store, the beer garden serves up authentic beers, sausages, and pretzels -- along with 10 German beers and three guest taps.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://steinsbeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steins Beer Garden\u003c/a> (Mountain View and Cupertino): This is an American take on the German biergarten. Along with fresh local food, there are 31 taps (16 house beers and 15 rotating). There's also an annual homebrew contest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://hermitagebrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hermitage Brewing Company\u003c/a> (San Jose): Hermitage has been brewing since 1987 and its volume (for various brands) actually puts it in the top 5% in the country. At the warehouse's taproom, you can enjoy 16 of their house brews or fill-up your growlers. The spot promises games, beers, sometimes food trucks.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.strikebrewingco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strike Brewing Company\u003c/a> (San Jose): Right next to the baseball stadium, the seasonal and experimental craft brews are named for America's pastime. Food trucks visit regularly and, during art night, you can paint while you drink.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scvbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara Valley Brewing\u003c/a> (San Jose): The names of the beers get their inspiration from local landmarks, as do the flavors. Try a flight of their homebrews in their taproom near downtown.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg\" alt=\"Crooked Goat tasting pours.\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/15042095_1266451006747378_4045937212476497777_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crooked Goat tasting pours. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Crooked Goat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>North Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Larkspur): Across from the Golden Gate Ferry, Marin Brew Co. has a large outdoor area for enjoying beers and burgers and weekly music.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ironspringspub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Springs \u003c/a>(Fairfax): In the heart of Fairfax, Iron Springs is usually filled on weekends with cyclists and families post-hike, either sitting inside the restaurant or at one of the few picnic tables in front. The beers are award-winning and the pub has a full menu. Last year, the brewery opened a taproom in San Rafael.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lagunitas.com/taprooms/petaluma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagunitas Taproom\u003c/a> (Petaluma): Lagunitas Brewing Company has grown and expanded in recent years, and the popularity of this outdoor Petaluma tasting spot has grown too. Music most days, tours every day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://brewstersbeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brewsters Beer Garden\u003c/a> (Petaluma): Located in the historic downtown area, Brewsters has 32 beers on tap and a patio garden with a children's play area and a bocce ball court.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gravsouthbrewco.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grav South Brew Co\u003c/a> (Cotati): Up in Cotati, Grav South Brewery is going strong with 16 taps -- half its own house brews and half other local Sonoma County beers. Plus, a small menu of meats smoked in-house.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crookedgoatbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooked Goat\u003c/a> (Sebastopol): After starting with small batches for family and friends, Crooked Goat grew and eventually took over a small taproom at \u003ca href=\"http://thebarlow.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Barlow\u003c/a>. You can also bring food in from the other shops. The 16 taps change regularly.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://barrelbrothersbrewing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrel Brothers Brewing Company\u003c/a> (Windsor): Started by brothers-in-law with their father-in-law, Barrel Brothers Brewing Company uses sustainable practices like donating spent grain to local farmers and trapping wastewater for fertilizer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Though many cuisines have versions of fried chicken, not the least of which is the karaage found on virtually every Japanese restaurant menu in the U.S., the style that is the focus of this guide has its genesis in West African cooking traditions that first became rooted in the American South by way of enslaved African and African-American people. Chicken was a delicacy before World War II because of its relatively high cost; however, its fried incarnation was forever commodified in the U.S. by a colonel who shall remained unnamed, when his small fast-food franchise expanded rapidly through the United States in the 1950s and ‘60s. But take heart. There are plenty of local chefs still doing the tradition justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1961, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/archives/21373/\" target=\"_blank\">the city of Gainesville, Georgia, passed an ordinance\u003c/a> that made it illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands, including a knife and fork. As recently as 2009, a 91-year-old woman was nearly arrested for trying to subvert the law. Here in the Bay Area, we’re for freedom of choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of recipes, I’ll go out on a limb and say: Simplest is best. The fewer the ingredients, the better, no matter what the pedigree of your bird. The 12 spots recommended here are divided into three categories: \u003cstrong>Down Home\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Fancy\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>With Waffles\u003c/strong>. The Down Home group, as might be expected, has the highest number of entries, while the three “fancy” spots aren’t formal so much as they are trendy and upscale. And yet, they’ve all devoted significant energy to developing an homage to this timeless dish. The With Waffles category speaks for itself, and it’s the one genre for which time of day doesn’t matter. You can get waffles with your chicken for any meal these restaurants happen to be serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proceed with gusto, and without thoughts of LDL cholesterol. You have many choices in Oakland and Berkeley, alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Down Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Berkeley's Angeline's does fried chicken with a New Orleans twist.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Berkeley's Angeline's does fried chicken with a New Orleans twist. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.angelineskitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>, a downtown Berkeley mainstay, is one of two restaurants I recommend for fried chicken that doesn’t give diners a choice of dark meat. The kitchen sticks strictly to boneless breast meat, coated thoroughly (but not over-laden) with egg and flour and deep-fried. The Louisiana twist comes out in the sides: sweet potatoes mashed with ginger and vanilla, slightly spicy and dessert-like, and smoky tasso ham (pork shoulder) cream gravy. Crisp steamed green beans save this dish from over-the-top decadence. Quick frying in very hot oil seals in the juices of the white meat. A bonus is that this is a dish that kids who don’t like bones in their meat will enjoy, especially with a side of hushpuppies and honey butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.angelineskitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2261 Shattuck Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ns8xUH\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 548-6900\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon, 5:30-9:30pm; Tue-Thu, 11:30am-9pm; Fri-Sat, 11:am-10pm; Sun 11:30am-9pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Angelines-Louisiana-Kitchen-286623082447/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/916489/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($16.99)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Esther's has a way with homestyle fried chicken.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Esther's has a way with homestyle fried chicken. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lady-esthers-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Esther’s\u003c/a> is the newest entry to the East Bay fried chicken scene, but only technically. Louisiana-born Esther Clay owned and operated her namesake Lady Esther’s at various locations in Oakland from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, where she served such cultural luminaries as James Baldwin and Diana Ross. Her daughter Deimentrius, who made her own name at Southern Café (which she’s no longer affiliated with) carries on her mother’s proud legacy, serving a full Louisiana menu that includes resplendent fried chicken. The main seasonings on my perfectly flaky three pieces of skin-on dark meat were salt and pepper, straight-up, and I chose sides I thought would highlight the chicken’s spot-on simplicity: mac and cheese, collard greens and stewed cabbage, the greens kicked up with a bit of pepper vinegar. Each plate is cooked to order (and enough for at least two people), so be patient. It travels fine, but the only reason to get it to go is to pair it with a nice Cabernet Franc or IPA (the restaurant doesn’t serve alcohol), but otherwise it’s never better than just out of the fryer. Lady Esther’s caters to the downtown business crowd, so if you’re there for lunch, sweet tea is an appropriate substitute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lady-esthers-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Lady Esther’s Original Southern Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n300 Frank Ogawa Plaza [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/CmHEJq\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 548-6900\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 11am-6pm; closed Sat-Sun\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($17.99)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken with grits and eggs at Oakland's Lois the Pie Queen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117239\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken with grits and eggs at Oakland's Lois the Pie Queen. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lois-the-pie-queen-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/a>, the storied restaurant in north Oakland adjacent to the burgeoning Lorin District in south Berkeley, had its heyday in the and 1970s and '80s, evidenced by the glamorous photos of international celebrities on the walls, most of them personally autographed. The original location on Sacramento Street was founded by Lois Cleveland Davis, and moved to its current location in the early 1970s. It’s now run by Davis’ son, Chris, and her granddaughter, Margot. Because the restaurant also does a brisk waffle business, it might’ve ended up in the With Waffles category of this guide, but I went with Down Home because of the kitchen’s way with homemade biscuits, eggs and grits. So, yes, fried chicken for breakfast. Come when you’re not in a hurry because sometimes the wait for chicken fried on the spot is a bit long. But it’s worth it for a traditional Southern breakfast, gussied up with fried chicken, soaked in seasoned milk, skin on, then simply flour-battered and deep-fried. Ask for all-dark meat, which is moister than the white, and extra butter for those grits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lois-the-pie-queen-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n851 60th St. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/rVmv6E\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 658-5616\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 8am-2pm; Sat, 7am-3pm; Sun 7am-4pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Lois-The-Pie-Queen-118166941529472/\" target=\"_blank\">Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($16.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken lunch at Southern Cafe on MacArthur in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken lunch at Southern Café on MacArthur in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://southerncafe2000.com/#header\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Café\u003c/a>, perhaps the most classic of all the places on this list for its easy, Sunday dining-room ambiance, gracious service, and confident way with fried chicken. There’s a branch out in Antioch now, but the Oakland flagship is a magical spot for a big family gathering or an important business lunch. It’s not fancy, or even upscale, particularly, but it’s elegant in its way, with a focus on attentive service and general friendliness. And it shares with other restaurants in the “down home” category an affinity for generous portions. Rice and gravy comes as a side on all chicken plates, and you can choose two additional sides as well. I hit the jackpot with mac and cheese and stewed collards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://southerncafe2000.com/#header\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Southern Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2000 MacArthur Blvd. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/KOPNVZ\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94602\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 336-2013\u003cbr>\nHours: Wed-Sat, 11am-9pm; Sun, 1-8pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SouthernCafe2000\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Café\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Southern fried chicken ($19.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota fried chicken at Stella Nonna in Berkeley.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota fried chicken at Stella Nonna in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’m ashamed to admit that I know virtually nothing about Minnesota—but apparently, Minnesotans know about fried chicken. \u003ca href=\"http://www.stellanonna.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Stella Nonna\u003c/a>, somewhat of a sleeper of a restaurant in north Berkeley, has an Italian name and a Midwestern soul. Among the Minnesota specialties on the large menu is fried chicken. Here’s the hitch: It’s only offered on Wednesday nights. So plan ahead and don’t fail to order this masterpiece of frying, with intricately secret-spiced breading, served with a pile of greens and creamy mashed potatoes with dark gravy. The chicken was so good that I left thinking I should probably try other dishes on the menu, knowing I likely never would, unless I end up back there on a non-Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stellanonna.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Stella Nonna\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1407 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/LVAXh3\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94602\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 524-3400\u003cbr>\nHours: Wed-Fri, 11am-9pm; Sat, 9am-9pm; Sun, 9am-3pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Stella-Nonna-195437967192425/\" target=\"_blank\">Stella Nonna\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Minnesota fried chicken ($17.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"A heaping plate of fried chicken and fixins at Touch of Soul in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heaping plate of fried chicken and fixins at Touch of Soul in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a tiny cheat to include \u003ca href=\"http://touch-of-soul.business.site/\" target=\"_blank\">Touch of Soul\u003c/a> in a fried chicken guide to Berkeley and Oakland because it’s officially in Emeryville, but if you think of borders as arbitrary, it makes perfect sense, given that this little gem of a restaurant is on the main drag of San Pablo as you head south through Oakland. It deserves its place on the list for value, alone. For $13.39, you get a plate that I daresay would feed three people, a half-chicken, in fact. But I wouldn’t recommend it if it weren’t also delicious, which it is. There are many sides to choose from, and I can never pass up stuffing, so I ordered a carb-loaded dinner that also included mashed potatoes and gravy and long-cooked collards. The restaurant has a nominal wine list, so it’s beer or soft drinks for the win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://touch-of-soul.business.site/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Touch of Soul\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4336 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/hSymiw\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nEmeryville, CA 94608\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 595-1227\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Sat, 11:30am-10pm; Sun, 11:30am-9pm\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Chicken fried dinner ($13.39)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fancy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920.jpg\" alt=\"Hopscotch's fried chicken with baked beans and coleslaw.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopscotch's fried chicken with baked beans and coleslaw. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Uptown Oakland’s most beloved restaurants is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hopscotchoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>, which has a menu of local ingredients combined in surprising ways that always work, often with a Japanese bent. While I excluded karaage from this list, Hopscotch certainly makes the cut because the concept is classic American-fried. You don’t know there’s anything else going on until you take a bite and sense a hint of ginger in the batter, and the sides of baked beans and pickled purple cabbage don’t give away the secret. Furthermore, you can buy a whole bucket of fried chicken to go (eight pieces for $30)! The icing on the cake is the craft cocktail list, with choices for any time of day. I had the Y Tu Mamá with mescal, St. George’s chili vodka, cynar and grapefruit juice, and found it to be a sumptuous midday repast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2016/04/21/check-please-bay-area-reviews-to-bang-korean-bbq-tinas-place-and-hopscotch/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Hopscotch featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hopscotchoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Hopscotch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1915 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/eyRI1S\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 788-6217\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thu, 11:30am-3pm and 5-10pm; Fri, 11:30am-3pm and 5-11pm; Sat, 10:30am-3pm and 5-11pm; Sun, 10:30am-3pm and 5-10pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hopscotchoak/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scotch1rock?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\">@scotch1rock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/scotch1rock/\" target=\"_blank\">@scotch1rock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk fried chicken ($19, lunch; $23 dinner)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried Chicken Dinner at Miss Ollie's in Swans Market in Old Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried Chicken Dinner at Miss Ollie's in Swans Market in Old Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The throughline at \u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie’s\u003c/a> is Caribbean, and there isn’t a dish on the menu that doesn’t sing with flavor. The space, in Swan’s Market in Old Oakland, is also among the most joyful in town, with easygoing servers who know their food. Order a pickle plate and the salt fish and ackee for the table, then settle in for the four-piece fried chicken dinner, which is enough for a family of four, especially if you order other dishes. No dithering over sides here: The exquisitely fried chicken comes with potato salad, field greens with lemon, and killer homemade hot sauce. Boom. Get a carafe of inexpensive rosé to share and sit outside and people-watch to your heart’s content. This is one of the best dining experiences in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2017/05/11/check-please-bay-area-season-12-reviews-miss-ollies-mama-papa-lithuania-restaurant-bar-crudo/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Miss Ollie’s featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Miss Ollie’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n901 Washington St. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/asyiDY\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 298-6188\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2pm and 5:30-9pm; Fri, 11:30am-2pm and 5:30-10:30pm; Sat, noon-3pm and 5:30-10pm; closed Sun\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MissOllies/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie's\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/49984092/\" target=\"_blank\">@MissOllies\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Miss Ollie’s skillet-fried chicken ($24)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920.jpg\" alt=\"A decadent Italian version of classic fried chicken at Pizzaiolo in Temescal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decadent Italian version of classic fried chicken at Pizzaiolo in Temescal. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What on earth is fried chicken doing on the menu of an Italian restaurant best known for its wood-fired pizza? After you taste \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo’s\u003c/a> version, you’ll surely say, “Why not?” The secret, and the way it remains in the wheelhouse of “Italian,” is in the salsa rossa served on top. A bright tomato and pepper sauce traditionally used for bollito misto, it’s also just right with fried poultry, as it happens, especially the buttermilk-breaded variety. The chicken isn’t on the menu every night, but it usually makes an appearance several times a week. Because the pizzas here are not to be missed, I recommend ordering a plate of fried chicken, when available, to share with the table. Trust me, it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2011/10/07/pizzaiolo-restaurant-info/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Pizzaiolo featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Pizzaiolo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n5008 Telegraph Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/JbYbcm\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94609\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 652-4888\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thu, 8:30am-noon and 5:30-10pm; Fri, 8am-noon and 5:30-10:30pm; Sat, 9am-1pm and 5:30-10:30pm; closed Sun\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Pizzaiolo-143284572386104/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pizzaioloakland\" target=\"_blank\">@pizzaioloakland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pizzaiolooakland/\" target=\"_blank\">@pizzaiolooakland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk-fried Hoffman Farms chicken ($29)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With Waffles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken and Waffles at Aunt Mary's Cafe in Temescal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117234\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken and Waffles at Aunt Mary's Cafe in Temescal. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"http://auntmaryscafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/a> moved across the street and north two blocks from its original space on Telegraph Avenue in Temescal, its focus has shifted exclusively to breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch, but the whole place has a kind of constant “brunch” ambiance. While it still has a decidedly Southern feel, it’s also got a local Oaktown vibe with super-casual-cum-professional servers who seem to be plugged in to their largely regular clientele—and a general air of leisure, the precise variety of which you want when you’re truly breakfasting or practicing the art of brunch. Aunt Mary’s fried chicken is of the “with waffle” variety, and it’s the second of two places on this list I recommend as white-meat-only, in part for the accompanying yeasted grits waffle. Light and airy, yet coarsely textured, this is one of the best waffles in all of the Bay Area. And you can get it savory-leaning with sage gravy or with agave syrup (maple syrup for an extra $2). But I digress. The chicken is a thin (perhaps pounded) breast, coasted with a beguiling breading rumored to include potato chips. I couldn’t get confirmation from the kitchen, but my server seemed confident about this proclamation, and my first bite confirmed it: crunchy, salty, dense without being heavy. The platter is served with a steak knife stabbed through the chicken like a culinary crime scene—or maybe a big T-bone. The dish fills the whole plate, and it’s almost a given that you’ll have leftovers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://auntmaryscafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4640 Telegraph Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/QPNgKp\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94609\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 601-9227\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 8am-3pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aunt-Marys-Cafe-Temescal/210868242267494\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café - Temescal\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/auntmaryscafe\" target=\"_blank\">@auntmaryscafe\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/813/\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken and grits waffle ($14.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920.jpg\" alt=\"Tanya Holland's deservedly famous chicken and waffles at Brown Sugar Kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Holland's deservedly famous chicken and waffles at Brown Sugar Kitchen. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanya Holland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a> is the stuff chicken and waffle dreams are made of. Holland brings her French culinary training at Burgundy’s \u003ca href=\"http://lavarenne.com/about-la-varenne/\" target=\"_blank\">École de Cuisine La Varenne\u003c/a> to West Oakland in the form of New Soul food, which is so delicious that she may have well invented the term. The restaurant could’ve landed in any of the three categories on this list, but the chef’s ethereal cornmeal waffles tip the scale to the “with waffles” group. Crisp, golden, and light as air, the waffles are served with brown sugar butter and a brilliantly tart apple cider syrup, so the sweetness in the dish comes more from the butter than the syrup. The fried chicken is equally compelling, brined in a buttermilk bath before frying, and then finished in the oven. The only mistake you can make here is to arrive too late to get a table. It happens, especially on weekends, so plan ahead. It’s walk-in only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2010/05/05/brown-sugar-kitchen-restaurant-info/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Brown Sugar Kitchen featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2534 Mandela Pkwy. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/a66U1f\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 839-SOUL\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Sat, 7am-3pm; Sun, 8am-3pm; closed Mon\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/brownsugarkitchen\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrownSugarKitch\" target=\"_blank\">@BrownSugarKitch\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mstanyaholland/\" target=\"_blank\">@mstanyaholland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk-fried chicken and cornmeal waffle ($18)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried Chicken and Waffles at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland's Jack London Square.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried Chicken and Waffles at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland's Jack London Square. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jack London Square’s \u003ca href=\"http://homeofchickenandwaffles.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Home of Chicken and Waffles\u003c/a> is not a hipster spot. It’s where you go, both pre- and post-hangover, to fulfill a deep craving for enormous plates of fried chicken and crisp waffles loaded with butter and syrup. The left side of the restaurant is diner-style, while the right side, the bar end of the space, gets loud long before sunset with music and Embarcadero revelers, many of whom are headed to or from Yoshi’s for a concert. It’s the most utilitarian choice on this list. The kitchen does a huge volume, and service is often less than attentive, but the food does the job of fortifying you for a good long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://homeofchickenandwaffles.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Home of Chicken and Waffles\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n44 Embarcadero West. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/m9OLCw\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 836-4446\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight; Fri-Sat, 11am-4am; Sun, 11am-midnight\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/thehomeofchickenandwaffles\" target=\"_blank\">Home of Chicken and Waffles\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/214910374/home-of-chicken-and-waffles/\" target=\"_blank\">Home of Chicken and Waffles\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $-$$ Fried chicken and waffle dishes ($10.25-$15.25)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Though many cuisines have versions of fried chicken, not the least of which is the karaage found on virtually every Japanese restaurant menu in the U.S., the style that is the focus of this guide has its genesis in West African cooking traditions that first became rooted in the American South by way of enslaved African and African-American people. Chicken was a delicacy before World War II because of its relatively high cost; however, its fried incarnation was forever commodified in the U.S. by a colonel who shall remained unnamed, when his small fast-food franchise expanded rapidly through the United States in the 1950s and ‘60s. But take heart. There are plenty of local chefs still doing the tradition justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1961, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/archives/21373/\" target=\"_blank\">the city of Gainesville, Georgia, passed an ordinance\u003c/a> that made it illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands, including a knife and fork. As recently as 2009, a 91-year-old woman was nearly arrested for trying to subvert the law. Here in the Bay Area, we’re for freedom of choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of recipes, I’ll go out on a limb and say: Simplest is best. The fewer the ingredients, the better, no matter what the pedigree of your bird. The 12 spots recommended here are divided into three categories: \u003cstrong>Down Home\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>Fancy\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>With Waffles\u003c/strong>. The Down Home group, as might be expected, has the highest number of entries, while the three “fancy” spots aren’t formal so much as they are trendy and upscale. And yet, they’ve all devoted significant energy to developing an homage to this timeless dish. The With Waffles category speaks for itself, and it’s the one genre for which time of day doesn’t matter. You can get waffles with your chicken for any meal these restaurants happen to be serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proceed with gusto, and without thoughts of LDL cholesterol. You have many choices in Oakland and Berkeley, alone. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Down Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Berkeley's Angeline's does fried chicken with a New Orleans twist.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Downtown-Berkeleys-Angelines-does-fried-chicken-with-a-New-Orleans-twist1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Berkeley's Angeline's does fried chicken with a New Orleans twist. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.angelineskitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>, a downtown Berkeley mainstay, is one of two restaurants I recommend for fried chicken that doesn’t give diners a choice of dark meat. The kitchen sticks strictly to boneless breast meat, coated thoroughly (but not over-laden) with egg and flour and deep-fried. The Louisiana twist comes out in the sides: sweet potatoes mashed with ginger and vanilla, slightly spicy and dessert-like, and smoky tasso ham (pork shoulder) cream gravy. Crisp steamed green beans save this dish from over-the-top decadence. Quick frying in very hot oil seals in the juices of the white meat. A bonus is that this is a dish that kids who don’t like bones in their meat will enjoy, especially with a side of hushpuppies and honey butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.angelineskitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2261 Shattuck Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ns8xUH\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 548-6900\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon, 5:30-9:30pm; Tue-Thu, 11:30am-9pm; Fri-Sat, 11:am-10pm; Sun 11:30am-9pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Angelines-Louisiana-Kitchen-286623082447/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/916489/\" target=\"_blank\">Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($16.99)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Esther's has a way with homestyle fried chicken.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Lady-Esthers-has-a-way-with-homestyle-friend-chicken1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Esther's has a way with homestyle fried chicken. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lady-esthers-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Esther’s\u003c/a> is the newest entry to the East Bay fried chicken scene, but only technically. Louisiana-born Esther Clay owned and operated her namesake Lady Esther’s at various locations in Oakland from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, where she served such cultural luminaries as James Baldwin and Diana Ross. Her daughter Deimentrius, who made her own name at Southern Café (which she’s no longer affiliated with) carries on her mother’s proud legacy, serving a full Louisiana menu that includes resplendent fried chicken. The main seasonings on my perfectly flaky three pieces of skin-on dark meat were salt and pepper, straight-up, and I chose sides I thought would highlight the chicken’s spot-on simplicity: mac and cheese, collard greens and stewed cabbage, the greens kicked up with a bit of pepper vinegar. Each plate is cooked to order (and enough for at least two people), so be patient. It travels fine, but the only reason to get it to go is to pair it with a nice Cabernet Franc or IPA (the restaurant doesn’t serve alcohol), but otherwise it’s never better than just out of the fryer. Lady Esther’s caters to the downtown business crowd, so if you’re there for lunch, sweet tea is an appropriate substitute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lady-esthers-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Lady Esther’s Original Southern Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n300 Frank Ogawa Plaza [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/CmHEJq\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 548-6900\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 11am-6pm; closed Sat-Sun\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($17.99)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken with grits and eggs at Oakland's Lois the Pie Queen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117239\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-with-grits-and-eggs-at-Oaklands-Lois-the-Pie-Queen1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken with grits and eggs at Oakland's Lois the Pie Queen. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lois-the-pie-queen-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/a>, the storied restaurant in north Oakland adjacent to the burgeoning Lorin District in south Berkeley, had its heyday in the and 1970s and '80s, evidenced by the glamorous photos of international celebrities on the walls, most of them personally autographed. The original location on Sacramento Street was founded by Lois Cleveland Davis, and moved to its current location in the early 1970s. It’s now run by Davis’ son, Chris, and her granddaughter, Margot. Because the restaurant also does a brisk waffle business, it might’ve ended up in the With Waffles category of this guide, but I went with Down Home because of the kitchen’s way with homemade biscuits, eggs and grits. So, yes, fried chicken for breakfast. Come when you’re not in a hurry because sometimes the wait for chicken fried on the spot is a bit long. But it’s worth it for a traditional Southern breakfast, gussied up with fried chicken, soaked in seasoned milk, skin on, then simply flour-battered and deep-fried. Ask for all-dark meat, which is moister than the white, and extra butter for those grits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/lois-the-pie-queen-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n851 60th St. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/rVmv6E\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 658-5616\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 8am-2pm; Sat, 7am-3pm; Sun 7am-4pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Lois-The-Pie-Queen-118166941529472/\" target=\"_blank\">Lois the Pie Queen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken ($16.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken lunch at Southern Cafe on MacArthur in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-lunch-at-Southern-Cafe-on-MacArthur-in-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken lunch at Southern Café on MacArthur in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://southerncafe2000.com/#header\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Café\u003c/a>, perhaps the most classic of all the places on this list for its easy, Sunday dining-room ambiance, gracious service, and confident way with fried chicken. There’s a branch out in Antioch now, but the Oakland flagship is a magical spot for a big family gathering or an important business lunch. It’s not fancy, or even upscale, particularly, but it’s elegant in its way, with a focus on attentive service and general friendliness. And it shares with other restaurants in the “down home” category an affinity for generous portions. Rice and gravy comes as a side on all chicken plates, and you can choose two additional sides as well. I hit the jackpot with mac and cheese and stewed collards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://southerncafe2000.com/#header\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Southern Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2000 MacArthur Blvd. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/KOPNVZ\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94602\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 336-2013\u003cbr>\nHours: Wed-Sat, 11am-9pm; Sun, 1-8pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SouthernCafe2000\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Café\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Southern fried chicken ($19.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota fried chicken at Stella Nonna in Berkeley.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Minnesota-fried-chicken-at-Stella-Nonna-in-Berkeley1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota fried chicken at Stella Nonna in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’m ashamed to admit that I know virtually nothing about Minnesota—but apparently, Minnesotans know about fried chicken. \u003ca href=\"http://www.stellanonna.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Stella Nonna\u003c/a>, somewhat of a sleeper of a restaurant in north Berkeley, has an Italian name and a Midwestern soul. Among the Minnesota specialties on the large menu is fried chicken. Here’s the hitch: It’s only offered on Wednesday nights. So plan ahead and don’t fail to order this masterpiece of frying, with intricately secret-spiced breading, served with a pile of greens and creamy mashed potatoes with dark gravy. The chicken was so good that I left thinking I should probably try other dishes on the menu, knowing I likely never would, unless I end up back there on a non-Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stellanonna.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Stella Nonna\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1407 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/LVAXh3\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94602\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 524-3400\u003cbr>\nHours: Wed-Fri, 11am-9pm; Sat, 9am-9pm; Sun, 9am-3pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Stella-Nonna-195437967192425/\" target=\"_blank\">Stella Nonna\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Minnesota fried chicken ($17.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"A heaping plate of fried chicken and fixins at Touch of Soul in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-heaping-plate-of-fried-chicken-and-fixins-at-Touch-of-Soul-in-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heaping plate of fried chicken and fixins at Touch of Soul in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a tiny cheat to include \u003ca href=\"http://touch-of-soul.business.site/\" target=\"_blank\">Touch of Soul\u003c/a> in a fried chicken guide to Berkeley and Oakland because it’s officially in Emeryville, but if you think of borders as arbitrary, it makes perfect sense, given that this little gem of a restaurant is on the main drag of San Pablo as you head south through Oakland. It deserves its place on the list for value, alone. For $13.39, you get a plate that I daresay would feed three people, a half-chicken, in fact. But I wouldn’t recommend it if it weren’t also delicious, which it is. There are many sides to choose from, and I can never pass up stuffing, so I ordered a carb-loaded dinner that also included mashed potatoes and gravy and long-cooked collards. The restaurant has a nominal wine list, so it’s beer or soft drinks for the win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://touch-of-soul.business.site/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Touch of Soul\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4336 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/hSymiw\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nEmeryville, CA 94608\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 595-1227\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Sat, 11:30am-10pm; Sun, 11:30am-9pm\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Chicken fried dinner ($13.39)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fancy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920.jpg\" alt=\"Hopscotch's fried chicken with baked beans and coleslaw.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Hopscotchs-fried-chicken-with-baked-beans-and-coleslaw1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopscotch's fried chicken with baked beans and coleslaw. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Uptown Oakland’s most beloved restaurants is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hopscotchoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>, which has a menu of local ingredients combined in surprising ways that always work, often with a Japanese bent. While I excluded karaage from this list, Hopscotch certainly makes the cut because the concept is classic American-fried. You don’t know there’s anything else going on until you take a bite and sense a hint of ginger in the batter, and the sides of baked beans and pickled purple cabbage don’t give away the secret. Furthermore, you can buy a whole bucket of fried chicken to go (eight pieces for $30)! The icing on the cake is the craft cocktail list, with choices for any time of day. I had the Y Tu Mamá with mescal, St. George’s chili vodka, cynar and grapefruit juice, and found it to be a sumptuous midday repast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2016/04/21/check-please-bay-area-reviews-to-bang-korean-bbq-tinas-place-and-hopscotch/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Hopscotch featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hopscotchoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Hopscotch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1915 San Pablo Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/eyRI1S\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 788-6217\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thu, 11:30am-3pm and 5-10pm; Fri, 11:30am-3pm and 5-11pm; Sat, 10:30am-3pm and 5-11pm; Sun, 10:30am-3pm and 5-10pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hopscotchoak/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scotch1rock?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\">@scotch1rock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/scotch1rock/\" target=\"_blank\">@scotch1rock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk fried chicken ($19, lunch; $23 dinner)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried Chicken Dinner at Miss Ollie's in Swans Market in Old Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117235\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/cover-image_Fried-chicken-dinner-at-Miss-Ollies-in-Swans-Market-in-Old-Oakland1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried Chicken Dinner at Miss Ollie's in Swans Market in Old Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The throughline at \u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie’s\u003c/a> is Caribbean, and there isn’t a dish on the menu that doesn’t sing with flavor. The space, in Swan’s Market in Old Oakland, is also among the most joyful in town, with easygoing servers who know their food. Order a pickle plate and the salt fish and ackee for the table, then settle in for the four-piece fried chicken dinner, which is enough for a family of four, especially if you order other dishes. No dithering over sides here: The exquisitely fried chicken comes with potato salad, field greens with lemon, and killer homemade hot sauce. Boom. Get a carafe of inexpensive rosé to share and sit outside and people-watch to your heart’s content. This is one of the best dining experiences in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2017/05/11/check-please-bay-area-season-12-reviews-miss-ollies-mama-papa-lithuania-restaurant-bar-crudo/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Miss Ollie’s featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Miss Ollie’s\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n901 Washington St. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/asyiDY\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 298-6188\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2pm and 5:30-9pm; Fri, 11:30am-2pm and 5:30-10:30pm; Sat, noon-3pm and 5:30-10pm; closed Sun\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MissOllies/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie's\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/49984092/\" target=\"_blank\">@MissOllies\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Miss Ollie’s skillet-fried chicken ($24)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920.jpg\" alt=\"A decadent Italian version of classic fried chicken at Pizzaiolo in Temescal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117232\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/A-decadent-Italian-version-of-classic-fried-chicken-at-Pizzaiolo-in-Temescal1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A decadent Italian version of classic fried chicken at Pizzaiolo in Temescal. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What on earth is fried chicken doing on the menu of an Italian restaurant best known for its wood-fired pizza? After you taste \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo’s\u003c/a> version, you’ll surely say, “Why not?” The secret, and the way it remains in the wheelhouse of “Italian,” is in the salsa rossa served on top. A bright tomato and pepper sauce traditionally used for bollito misto, it’s also just right with fried poultry, as it happens, especially the buttermilk-breaded variety. The chicken isn’t on the menu every night, but it usually makes an appearance several times a week. Because the pizzas here are not to be missed, I recommend ordering a plate of fried chicken, when available, to share with the table. Trust me, it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2011/10/07/pizzaiolo-restaurant-info/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Pizzaiolo featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Pizzaiolo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n5008 Telegraph Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/JbYbcm\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94609\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 652-4888\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Thu, 8:30am-noon and 5:30-10pm; Fri, 8am-noon and 5:30-10:30pm; Sat, 9am-1pm and 5:30-10:30pm; closed Sun\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Pizzaiolo-143284572386104/\" target=\"_blank\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pizzaioloakland\" target=\"_blank\">@pizzaioloakland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pizzaiolooakland/\" target=\"_blank\">@pizzaiolooakland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk-fried Hoffman Farms chicken ($29)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With Waffles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken and Waffles at Aunt Mary's Cafe in Temescal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117234\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Chicken-and-waffles-at-Aunt-Marys-Cafe-in-Temescal1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken and Waffles at Aunt Mary's Cafe in Temescal. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"http://auntmaryscafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/a> moved across the street and north two blocks from its original space on Telegraph Avenue in Temescal, its focus has shifted exclusively to breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch, but the whole place has a kind of constant “brunch” ambiance. While it still has a decidedly Southern feel, it’s also got a local Oaktown vibe with super-casual-cum-professional servers who seem to be plugged in to their largely regular clientele—and a general air of leisure, the precise variety of which you want when you’re truly breakfasting or practicing the art of brunch. Aunt Mary’s fried chicken is of the “with waffle” variety, and it’s the second of two places on this list I recommend as white-meat-only, in part for the accompanying yeasted grits waffle. Light and airy, yet coarsely textured, this is one of the best waffles in all of the Bay Area. And you can get it savory-leaning with sage gravy or with agave syrup (maple syrup for an extra $2). But I digress. The chicken is a thin (perhaps pounded) breast, coasted with a beguiling breading rumored to include potato chips. I couldn’t get confirmation from the kitchen, but my server seemed confident about this proclamation, and my first bite confirmed it: crunchy, salty, dense without being heavy. The platter is served with a steak knife stabbed through the chicken like a culinary crime scene—or maybe a big T-bone. The dish fills the whole plate, and it’s almost a given that you’ll have leftovers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://auntmaryscafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4640 Telegraph Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/QPNgKp\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94609\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 601-9227\u003cbr>\nHours: Daily, 8am-3pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aunt-Marys-Cafe-Temescal/210868242267494\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café - Temescal\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/auntmaryscafe\" target=\"_blank\">@auntmaryscafe\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/813/\" target=\"_blank\">Aunt Mary’s Café\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ Fried chicken and grits waffle ($14.50)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920.jpg\" alt=\"Tanya Holland's deservedly famous chicken and waffles at Brown Sugar Kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Tanya-Hollands-deservedly-famous-chicken-and-waffles-at-Brown-Sugar-Kitchen1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Holland's deservedly famous chicken and waffles at Brown Sugar Kitchen. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tanya Holland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a> is the stuff chicken and waffle dreams are made of. Holland brings her French culinary training at Burgundy’s \u003ca href=\"http://lavarenne.com/about-la-varenne/\" target=\"_blank\">École de Cuisine La Varenne\u003c/a> to West Oakland in the form of New Soul food, which is so delicious that she may have well invented the term. The restaurant could’ve landed in any of the three categories on this list, but the chef’s ethereal cornmeal waffles tip the scale to the “with waffles” group. Crisp, golden, and light as air, the waffles are served with brown sugar butter and a brilliantly tart apple cider syrup, so the sweetness in the dish comes more from the butter than the syrup. The fried chicken is equally compelling, brined in a buttermilk bath before frying, and then finished in the oven. The only mistake you can make here is to arrive too late to get a table. It happens, especially on weekends, so plan ahead. It’s walk-in only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/checkplease/2010/05/05/brown-sugar-kitchen-restaurant-info/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Brown Sugar Kitchen featured on Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2534 Mandela Pkwy. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/a66U1f\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 839-SOUL\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Sat, 7am-3pm; Sun, 8am-3pm; closed Mon\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/brownsugarkitchen\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrownSugarKitch\" target=\"_blank\">@BrownSugarKitch\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mstanyaholland/\" target=\"_blank\">@mstanyaholland\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$ Buttermilk-fried chicken and cornmeal waffle ($18)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fried Chicken and Waffles at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland's Jack London Square.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/Fried-chicken-and-waffles-at-House-of-Chicken-and-Waffles-in-Oaklands-Jack-London-Square1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried Chicken and Waffles at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland's Jack London Square. \u003ccite>(Kim Westerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jack London Square’s \u003ca href=\"http://homeofchickenandwaffles.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Home of Chicken and Waffles\u003c/a> is not a hipster spot. It’s where you go, both pre- and post-hangover, to fulfill a deep craving for enormous plates of fried chicken and crisp waffles loaded with butter and syrup. The left side of the restaurant is diner-style, while the right side, the bar end of the space, gets loud long before sunset with music and Embarcadero revelers, many of whom are headed to or from Yoshi’s for a concert. It’s the most utilitarian choice on this list. The kitchen does a huge volume, and service is often less than attentive, but the food does the job of fortifying you for a good long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Udon is trying to follow the noodle soup trend in an airy, light-filled Mid-Market space. So far, the homemade noodles are great but everything else is still in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has the Bay Area’s Ramen Moment cooled off yet? Judging by \u003ca href=\"http://mensho.tokyo/\" target=\"_blank\">Mensho Tokyo’s\u003c/a> nightly lines, the answer is clearly “no.” However, it just might be the opportune time for ramen’s Japanese noodle soup siblings, soba and udon, to at least deflect away a little of the fawning attention diners lavish upon ramen. After all, how much more densely concentrated pork fat broth can we all really handle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Mid-Market’s month-old \u003ca href=\"http://kagawayaudon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagawa-Ya\u003c/a>, a fast-casual concept that definitely isn’t the first udon specialist in San Francisco but certainly is the most high profile one to open. The mission is pretty clear. Kagawa-Ya wants to do for fast-casual udon what \u003ca href=\"https://www.souvlasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Souvla\u003c/a> has succeeded at for Greek wraps and salads, and \u003ca href=\"http://thebirdsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bird\u003c/a> is thriving within the fried chicken sandwich sector: find your niche, use the expected fresh and high-quality ingredients, serve it fast and win over the hearts of the Instagrammer set and neighborhood tech workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya exterior.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117183\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya exterior. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kagawa-Ya isn’t quite to the top of the competitive fast-casual heap yet, both for its inconsistent bowls and spare, to the point of harsh, environs. The udon is meant to be comforting and satisfying. Meanwhile, the space comes across as austere, uncomfortable and awkwardly shaped. It’s not loveable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being attached to Uber’s new offices on Market Street and a block from the Twitter Building, the daytime foot traffic (it’s wisely closed after 7pm) is there to make Kagawa-Ya a hit. The curiosity in udon is most definitely abundant citywide, as well. Nobody will rave about Kagawa-Ya and nobody will strongly dislike it. It’ll succeed because, hey, it makes and ages its own noodles for two days, the food is served fast and The Market’s set-up is just too chaotic to be a frequent habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya's cold noodle option.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117193\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya's cold noodle option. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The leader of the udon pack is the cold option, with a strong sweet and umami soy broth demanding for a hefty squeeze of the accompanying lemon wedge. It’s delicate while simultaneously being comforting. Grated daikon and a soft yolk boiled egg are essentially the only garnishes. The bowl’s real highlight are the thick homemade noodles themselves, plump and bouncy, far more on the al dente side of the texture spectrum than the soft end, and benefit tremendously from the broth’s slightly chilled temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon.jpg\" alt=\"Niku (beef) Udon Soup\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117184\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niku (beef) Udon Soup \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those noodles don’t lose their perkiness when heated in one of the four warm broths. The problem is everything else in the bowl. A braised hunk of beef in the Niku Udon proved dry and a challenge to cut; the almost clear broth bearing a vaguely beefy essence that begged for some Sriracha to give it life. Caramelized onions scattered about are the main redeeming feature of the ensemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon.jpg\" alt=\"Kabocha squash udon soup.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117191\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabocha squash udon soup. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A creamy kabocha squash broth had the same issues, being too vague and needing way more of the squash flavor to shine through. The flavors are restrained and the broth consistency too watery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, these are sensational noodles with timid broths. Japanese beef curry with carrots and onions gets translated into an udon soup broth as the other meat option. Vegetarians can also opt for the warm dashi-based Kitsune Udon. If you somehow end up at the udon specialist and don’t want udon, then there is a mushroom curry rice bowl, which I didn’t see ordered one time while watching about 50 diners stroll by during a recent weekday lunch rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya interior.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya interior. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the udon broths need attention, those noodles are proving to be special. Kagawa is a prefecture on Japan’s Shikoku Island, not tremendously far from Osaka. It’s considered Japan’s udon capital and Kagawa-Ya claims that the prefecture’s residents consume more than seven times the udon per capita than the national average. They love their udon. That’s why it’s the Mid-Market restaurant’s namesake and why Kagawa-Ya’s chef Sean Lim trained there to get the ultimate udon education at the source. It’s evident when you bite into the noodle and focus purely on that element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim is from Honolulu originally but has worked at several San Francisco institutions, with his latest post being as a sous chef for The Palace Hotel. Seven blocks down Market Street, he’s working in a completely different type of operation and cooking a vastly different style of food than hotel banquet chicken and salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya interior counter.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya interior counter. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kagawa-Ya’s 30-foot high ceiling and prominent overhead bubble lamp chandelier in the dining area are the dominant design features, feeling like a corporate atrium lobby (Uber’s next door probably isn’t very different). Lots of natural light streams in but the distracting white floors, exposed concrete, and off-putting black metal stools and chairs are all the clichés of contemporary minimalist design that elicit complaints about acoustics and comfort. This might be too much architecture credit to give but the restaurant is exactly like a Frank Lloyd Wright house’s tiny door meets spacious living room philosophy. The kitchen and cash register area are claustrophobic with a low ceiling. Then you emerge in a massive communal space. It just all feels impersonal and trying to be trendy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most diners sit at a central raised reclaimed wood communal table, with a handful of lower tables scattered by the door and along the Market Street side wall where the street view is blocked by signs advertising udon to pedestrians (pro tip: get rid of the signs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya’s menu.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya’s menu. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll order one of the udons from the menus on monitors at the far end of the counter and have to scream that order since it’s hard to communicate over the glass barrier with cooks. The soup bowls are put together right in front of you and take just a couple of seconds to prepare. Who knew that udon can be served faster than burritos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya’s tempura.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya’s tempura. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After being handed your soup, next up is the very unappetizing appearance of various tempuras under a heat lamp as a la carte sides at $1.50 each. Whether you choose shrimp or a curry sweet potato croquette, it’s fine fried food but seems more like filler than actually rounding out a meal. On the positive side, they’re grease-less and the batter isn’t too heavy (you can actually taste shrimp in the shrimp one, for example).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available at Kagawa-Ya.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117189\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available at Kagawa-Ya. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The one little quirk at Kagawa-Ya is the large roster of Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available after the tempura. Who knew that udon and lilikoi juice were a match? They aren’t really (sugary juices don’t mesh with delicate noodles) but at least you can briefly think about that far-off Maui vacation during your lunch break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully, Kagawa-Ya will punch up the flavor depth in the broths because the excellent noodles deserve them. Let’s root for a little bit more personality somewhere, maybe from a little more interior work or adjusting the ordering line so it doesn’t feel like you’re nudged up to the bathroom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prices are in line with what you’d expect (generally $11-13 a bowl). Then again, maybe that’s now a bargain per San Francisco standards. We’ll see how Kagawa-Ya develops. Despite opening hurdles, there is a lot of potential for the restaurant because udon really is poised to have its breakout at any moment and Kagawa-Ya seems determined to be the one responsible for a new noodle trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kagawayaudon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Kagawa-Ya Udon Noodle Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1455 Market St.\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94103 [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kagawa-Ya+Udon+Noodle+Company/@37.775882,-122.41797,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x53b3611f19bbc018!8m2!3d37.7758815!4d-122.4179697?hl=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (415) 703-0995\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri, 11am-7pm, closed Saturday and Sunday\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kagawayaudonSF/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagawa-Ya Udon Noodle Company\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kagawayaudon?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">@KagawayaUdon\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kagawaya.udon/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">kagawaya.udon\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ ($11-$15 per diner)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Udon is trying to follow the noodle soup trend in an airy, light-filled Mid-Market space. So far, the homemade noodles are great but everything else is still in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has the Bay Area’s Ramen Moment cooled off yet? Judging by \u003ca href=\"http://mensho.tokyo/\" target=\"_blank\">Mensho Tokyo’s\u003c/a> nightly lines, the answer is clearly “no.” However, it just might be the opportune time for ramen’s Japanese noodle soup siblings, soba and udon, to at least deflect away a little of the fawning attention diners lavish upon ramen. After all, how much more densely concentrated pork fat broth can we all really handle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Mid-Market’s month-old \u003ca href=\"http://kagawayaudon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagawa-Ya\u003c/a>, a fast-casual concept that definitely isn’t the first udon specialist in San Francisco but certainly is the most high profile one to open. The mission is pretty clear. Kagawa-Ya wants to do for fast-casual udon what \u003ca href=\"https://www.souvlasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Souvla\u003c/a> has succeeded at for Greek wraps and salads, and \u003ca href=\"http://thebirdsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bird\u003c/a> is thriving within the fried chicken sandwich sector: find your niche, use the expected fresh and high-quality ingredients, serve it fast and win over the hearts of the Instagrammer set and neighborhood tech workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya exterior.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117183\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-1-exterior-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya exterior. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kagawa-Ya isn’t quite to the top of the competitive fast-casual heap yet, both for its inconsistent bowls and spare, to the point of harsh, environs. The udon is meant to be comforting and satisfying. Meanwhile, the space comes across as austere, uncomfortable and awkwardly shaped. It’s not loveable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being attached to Uber’s new offices on Market Street and a block from the Twitter Building, the daytime foot traffic (it’s wisely closed after 7pm) is there to make Kagawa-Ya a hit. The curiosity in udon is most definitely abundant citywide, as well. Nobody will rave about Kagawa-Ya and nobody will strongly dislike it. It’ll succeed because, hey, it makes and ages its own noodles for two days, the food is served fast and The Market’s set-up is just too chaotic to be a frequent habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya's cold noodle option.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117193\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-cold-udon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya's cold noodle option. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The leader of the udon pack is the cold option, with a strong sweet and umami soy broth demanding for a hefty squeeze of the accompanying lemon wedge. It’s delicate while simultaneously being comforting. Grated daikon and a soft yolk boiled egg are essentially the only garnishes. The bowl’s real highlight are the thick homemade noodles themselves, plump and bouncy, far more on the al dente side of the texture spectrum than the soft end, and benefit tremendously from the broth’s slightly chilled temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon.jpg\" alt=\"Niku (beef) Udon Soup\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117184\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-beefudon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niku (beef) Udon Soup \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those noodles don’t lose their perkiness when heated in one of the four warm broths. The problem is everything else in the bowl. A braised hunk of beef in the Niku Udon proved dry and a challenge to cut; the almost clear broth bearing a vaguely beefy essence that begged for some Sriracha to give it life. Caramelized onions scattered about are the main redeeming feature of the ensemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon.jpg\" alt=\"Kabocha squash udon soup.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117191\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-squashudon-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabocha squash udon soup. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A creamy kabocha squash broth had the same issues, being too vague and needing way more of the squash flavor to shine through. The flavors are restrained and the broth consistency too watery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, these are sensational noodles with timid broths. Japanese beef curry with carrots and onions gets translated into an udon soup broth as the other meat option. Vegetarians can also opt for the warm dashi-based Kitsune Udon. If you somehow end up at the udon specialist and don’t want udon, then there is a mushroom curry rice bowl, which I didn’t see ordered one time while watching about 50 diners stroll by during a recent weekday lunch rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya interior.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117187\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya interior. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the udon broths need attention, those noodles are proving to be special. Kagawa is a prefecture on Japan’s Shikoku Island, not tremendously far from Osaka. It’s considered Japan’s udon capital and Kagawa-Ya claims that the prefecture’s residents consume more than seven times the udon per capita than the national average. They love their udon. That’s why it’s the Mid-Market restaurant’s namesake and why Kagawa-Ya’s chef Sean Lim trained there to get the ultimate udon education at the source. It’s evident when you bite into the noodle and focus purely on that element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim is from Honolulu originally but has worked at several San Francisco institutions, with his latest post being as a sous chef for The Palace Hotel. Seven blocks down Market Street, he’s working in a completely different type of operation and cooking a vastly different style of food than hotel banquet chicken and salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya interior counter.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya interior counter. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kagawa-Ya’s 30-foot high ceiling and prominent overhead bubble lamp chandelier in the dining area are the dominant design features, feeling like a corporate atrium lobby (Uber’s next door probably isn’t very different). Lots of natural light streams in but the distracting white floors, exposed concrete, and off-putting black metal stools and chairs are all the clichés of contemporary minimalist design that elicit complaints about acoustics and comfort. This might be too much architecture credit to give but the restaurant is exactly like a Frank Lloyd Wright house’s tiny door meets spacious living room philosophy. The kitchen and cash register area are claustrophobic with a low ceiling. Then you emerge in a massive communal space. It just all feels impersonal and trying to be trendy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most diners sit at a central raised reclaimed wood communal table, with a handful of lower tables scattered by the door and along the Market Street side wall where the street view is blocked by signs advertising udon to pedestrians (pro tip: get rid of the signs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya’s menu.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-interior-menu-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya’s menu. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll order one of the udons from the menus on monitors at the far end of the counter and have to scream that order since it’s hard to communicate over the glass barrier with cooks. The soup bowls are put together right in front of you and take just a couple of seconds to prepare. Who knew that udon can be served faster than burritos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura.jpg\" alt=\"Kagawa-Ya’s tempura.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-tempura-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kagawa-Ya’s tempura. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After being handed your soup, next up is the very unappetizing appearance of various tempuras under a heat lamp as a la carte sides at $1.50 each. Whether you choose shrimp or a curry sweet potato croquette, it’s fine fried food but seems more like filler than actually rounding out a meal. On the positive side, they’re grease-less and the batter isn’t too heavy (you can actually taste shrimp in the shrimp one, for example).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available at Kagawa-Ya.\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117189\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice.jpg 1632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/kagawa-juice-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available at Kagawa-Ya. \u003ccite>(Trevor Felch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The one little quirk at Kagawa-Ya is the large roster of Hawaiian fruit juices and sodas available after the tempura. Who knew that udon and lilikoi juice were a match? They aren’t really (sugary juices don’t mesh with delicate noodles) but at least you can briefly think about that far-off Maui vacation during your lunch break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully, Kagawa-Ya will punch up the flavor depth in the broths because the excellent noodles deserve them. Let’s root for a little bit more personality somewhere, maybe from a little more interior work or adjusting the ordering line so it doesn’t feel like you’re nudged up to the bathroom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prices are in line with what you’d expect (generally $11-13 a bowl). Then again, maybe that’s now a bargain per San Francisco standards. We’ll see how Kagawa-Ya develops. Despite opening hurdles, there is a lot of potential for the restaurant because udon really is poised to have its breakout at any moment and Kagawa-Ya seems determined to be the one responsible for a new noodle trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few years back, Christina Nelson, an office manager and student, craved a more meaningful life. She soon joined the Slow Food movement in San Diego, and began to experiment with cooking local and sustainable meals prepared in traditional ways. Eventually, she learned how to make naturally leavened bread using locally milled whole grains. She loved the whole process and decided to make a career out of baking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something I’d always thought about as a kid, [that] it would be fun to run a café,” Nelson said. She landed a job working in a commercial bakery in Los Angeles, but the grueling commute from her new home in Orange County curtailed that dream. Deciding to make a go of it on her own, Nelson rented space in a shared commercial kitchen. But the hourly rental fees added up quickly during her 12-hour baking shifts, making for little, if any, profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Nelson could apply for a cottage food permit, thanks to a 2012 California \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/pages/fdbcottagefood.aspx\">law\u003c/a> allowing home cooks to sell some non-perishable foods—granola, candies, baked goods—out of their home kitchens. The process that took months, and included an inspection visit from a local health regulator, and once she was permitted, she launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.demeterbread.com/about\">Demeter Bread and Pastry\u003c/a>, and began selling bread, cookies, and other baked goods at the Santa Ana farmers’ market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Nelson sees another business opportunity in selling hot, healthy, and locally sourced lunches at nearby business parks, but she can’t do that under the current law. But that could change. In February, California Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://a56.asmdc.org/press-release/assemblymember-eduardo-garcia-introduces-bill-legalize-homemade-meal-sales\">introduced\u003c/a> the Homemade Food Legislation Act (AB 626), which would permit the sale of prepared meals and other foods from small-scale home kitchen operations. Last week, AB 626 \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/lifestyle/20170427/bill-would-allow-home-cooks-to-sell-meals\">passed the state’s Health Committee\u003c/a> with a vote of 12-0, with three members abstaining; the full Assembly is set to vote on the bill before May 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Garcia hopes the bill can be an “important lever of economic empowerment for immigrant, minority, and other vulnerable communities,” it’s not without its opponents. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.theselc.org/cottage_food_laws\">Sustainable Economies Law Center\u003c/a> (SELC), the group that wrote the 2012 bill, worries that the new legislation could give \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2015/08/10/josephine-com-wants-to-bring-the-sharing-economy-to-your-kitchen/\">web platforms like Josephine\u003c/a>, and others tech companies like it on the horizon, too much power over home cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing Barriers for Marginalized Cooks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of my constituents have expressed their concerns and frustrations trying to work in compliance with the existing, overly complicated cottage food laws,” said Garcia in a \u003ca href=\"https://a56.asmdc.org/press-release/assemblymember-eduardo-garcia-introduces-bill-legalize-homemade-meal-sales\">press release\u003c/a>. “This measure aims to knock down barriers and expand opportunities for marginalized populations who often lack access to the professional food world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson, who has struggled to find the resources to expand her business beyond baked goods, hopes the legislation will allow her to have an additional source of income without a huge infusion of money. “It would make it a lot easier for me to expand without renting a commercial kitchen space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of the state’s many home cooks, a significant percentage of whom are women and immigrants, who could benefit from the new legislation, which would legalize the small-scale sale of homemade foods like tamales and other hot foods. Last year, the hazards of participating in the informal food economy came to light when the story of Mariza Ruelas went viral. The Stockton mom of six was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ceviche-selling-stockton-20161107-story.html\">threatened by authorities\u003c/a> for selling homemade ceviche through a private Facebook food swap group. Ruelas, no surprise, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Z_vVfobXaIZklfTDJpeDFTczA/view\">supports the new legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Janus, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kesq.com/news/coachella-aims-to-open-a-sharekitchen/63035443\">ShareKitchen\u003c/a> and a consultant with the Coachella Valley Small Business Development Center, thinks the proposed law is great, especially if it means streamlining the permit process while empowering small business incubation for those who can’t operate legally under existing cottage food laws. When more people can legally start small food businesses at home, the idea goes, they’ll also have a legitimate stepping stone to successful catering or commercial food operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of traditional Hispanic foods being prepared in home kitchens and shared in local communities that are unregulated,” said Janus. She adds that the legislation could help to address current issues of safety, sanitation, equity, and zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Uberization of Homemade Food?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homemade food legislation still has a long way to go. In its current form, it’s only a legislative declaration of intent or a “spot bill.” It doesn’t lay out any specifics about training requirements, or what the actual permit process and registration might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https://stories.josephine.com/\">Josephine\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, the bill seeks to create a new registration or permit process that would allow home cooks to sell directly to customers while complying with a series of health, safety, sanitation, and education guidelines,” said Matt Jorgensen, the co-CEO of Josephine, an online food sales platform headquartered in Oakland. Josephine sponsored the new legislation after cooks in several Bay Area cities selling meals through its site received \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/05/11/food-startup-josephine-pauses-east-bay-operations/\">cease-and-desist orders from health regulators last summer\u003c/a>. The company continues to operate in Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine made the foray into the legislative process early last year, but the bill’s first iteration was killed on arrival, shot down by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccdeh.com/\">California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health\u003c/a> (CCDEH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t worked with them to develop a policy. They told us that if there was going to be some sort of legitimization of this informal economy, then they needed to be part of it, and it needed to be a new permit process,” said Jorgensen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months, the health regulators developed an ad hoc committee to develop the language of the legislation and permit process. At the same time, Josephine assembled a working group made up of home cooks, legal experts from the UCLA and Harvard Food Law Clinics, and other stakeholders including the California Food Policy Council, the Cottage Food Operator’s Association of America, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the stakeholders were in place, Josephine’s representatives connected with Assemblymember Garcia, who had already expressed a desire to revisit homemade food laws as a way to develop his policy agenda of economic empowerment of minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, Josephine also worked closely with SELC and Christina Oatfield, a policy director with the organization, who was a key architect of the 2012 Cottage Food Act. However, SELC recently stepped away from the new, expanded legislation, saying they were not comfortable with the potential \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6A3kWTsNM\">“Uberization” of food\u003c/a> posed by the participation of companies like Josephine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oatfield, SELC will only support further homemade food legislation if it \u003ca href=\"http://www.theselc.org/creating_community_owned_food_systems\">ensures\u003c/a> some form of community ownership of any web platforms involved in the sale of homemade foods. They’d like to see a provision that limits that ownership to cooks and/or eater-owned cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, or government agencies. The model they proposed is based on the way certified farmers’ markets are run in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a whole industry that’s operated by stakeholder groups—farmers, home cooks, nonprofit organization groups, local governments—it really changes the dynamic and changes the priorities for the industry—compared to tech companies that are for-profit and backed by venture capitalists out to make huge profits,” explained Oatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how such a law would be enforced. It could be through individual court actions, or through a limit on the types of web platforms that receive permits from environmental health regulators at the county or city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear is that a company like Josephine, as it’s currently structured, would not be allowed to operate legally under SELC’s proposal. At play, says Oatfield, are important questions about whether home cooks will be considered independent contractors, and whether they will have any protections under employment law. There are also questions about whether the cooks working with online platforms will be pressed to cook more food faster or with lower-quality ingredients, either of which could affect food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what’s going to happen, but looking at other industries where tech has come in and shaken things up, we have a lot of reasons to be concerned,” added Oatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the idea of having an nonprofit or co-op model because our margins aren’t going to be big,” said Christina Nelson, the baker. Home kitchens aren’t set up to mass-produce, she points out. “It’s not like anyone is getting rich off of doing this in their home and if a for-profit company took a good chunk, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, Jorgensen addressed some of these issues in a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.josephine.com/towards-a-more-sharing-economy-d06181092f81\">statement.\u003c/a> As he explained it, Josephine takes a 10 percent cut of a cook’s sales. In addition, Josephine has established a Cook Council to act as a communication bridge between the company and the cooks; a representative from the council holds a seat on Josephine’s Board of Directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine co-CEO Charley Wang \u003ca href=\"https://blog.josephine.com/last-month-josephine-introduced-a-new-bill-that-would-allow-home-cooks-to-make-money-selling-food-9281a42616f8\">has argued\u003c/a> from the start that it’s possible for a for-profit tech company to empower and give agency to their providers rather than exploiting them for maximum output and profit. In exchange, cooks—some of whom lack the language and/or technology skills to market themselves—get an established platform that, in theory, gives access to the support and resources they need to sell their food to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree with Wang. A self-professed “great fan of cooperatives,” Peter Ruddock, a coordinator with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CalFPC/\">California Food Policy Council \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-california\">Slow Food California\u003c/a>, says linking homemade food and cooperatives complicates the legislation without offering significant benefits. Furthermore, he says it was easy for Uber for commodify rides, which aren’t all that unique. It’ll be harder for a tech company to commodify homemade meals, which vary by geography, ingredients, and individual chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Ruddock thinks we should welcome any opportunity to expand local food businesses. “This is one of many steps to reconnect with our food,” he said. “This [new homemade food legislation] is the next step in what is probably going to be a long-term process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, some cooks have already turned to tech companies as support for their home cooking endeavors. In addition to Josephine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mealsurfers-food-cooks-hungry-1.3312848\">Meal Surfers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://la.eater.com/2015/10/7/9472893/delivery-app-mytable-cooks-local-meal-new\">MyTable\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://umi.kitchen/\">Umi Kitchen\u003c/a> are hoping to engage home chefs in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the benefits are tangible where it’s working. Take Ramona Chitrakar-Walson, who immigrated to the U.S. from Nepal. Now a mother of two living in Seattle, Washington, Chitrakar-Walson uses the Josephine site to sell authentic Nepalese meals to fellow immigrants from Nepal and other curious eaters. She’d considered joining a cooking club or selling momos (Nepali dumplings) at the local farmers’ market, but she balked at the start-up costs and paperwork involved in starting her own business. The ready-to-go tech platform has allowed her to focus on cooking meals for her home and connecting with the local community instead\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t have been able to start anything like this on my own,” said Chitrakar-Walson.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Author\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLeilani Clark is a freelance writer based in Santa Rosa, California. Her work has appeared in \u003cem>The North Bay Bohemian\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Made Local\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Shareable\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Yes, \u003c/em>\u003cem>The Orlando Weekly\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Sacramento News and Review\u003c/em>. She is a 2014 California Endowment Health Journalism Fellow through the USC Annenberg School of Communication.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing Barriers for Marginalized Cooks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of my constituents have expressed their concerns and frustrations trying to work in compliance with the existing, overly complicated cottage food laws,” said Garcia in a \u003ca href=\"https://a56.asmdc.org/press-release/assemblymember-eduardo-garcia-introduces-bill-legalize-homemade-meal-sales\">press release\u003c/a>. “This measure aims to knock down barriers and expand opportunities for marginalized populations who often lack access to the professional food world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson, who has struggled to find the resources to expand her business beyond baked goods, hopes the legislation will allow her to have an additional source of income without a huge infusion of money. “It would make it a lot easier for me to expand without renting a commercial kitchen space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of the state’s many home cooks, a significant percentage of whom are women and immigrants, who could benefit from the new legislation, which would legalize the small-scale sale of homemade foods like tamales and other hot foods. Last year, the hazards of participating in the informal food economy came to light when the story of Mariza Ruelas went viral. The Stockton mom of six was \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ceviche-selling-stockton-20161107-story.html\">threatened by authorities\u003c/a> for selling homemade ceviche through a private Facebook food swap group. Ruelas, no surprise, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Z_vVfobXaIZklfTDJpeDFTczA/view\">supports the new legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Janus, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kesq.com/news/coachella-aims-to-open-a-sharekitchen/63035443\">ShareKitchen\u003c/a> and a consultant with the Coachella Valley Small Business Development Center, thinks the proposed law is great, especially if it means streamlining the permit process while empowering small business incubation for those who can’t operate legally under existing cottage food laws. When more people can legally start small food businesses at home, the idea goes, they’ll also have a legitimate stepping stone to successful catering or commercial food operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of traditional Hispanic foods being prepared in home kitchens and shared in local communities that are unregulated,” said Janus. She adds that the legislation could help to address current issues of safety, sanitation, equity, and zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Uberization of Homemade Food?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homemade food legislation still has a long way to go. In its current form, it’s only a legislative declaration of intent or a “spot bill.” It doesn’t lay out any specifics about training requirements, or what the actual permit process and registration might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117102\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/170425-cottage-food-2-768x512-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https://stories.josephine.com/\">Josephine\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, the bill seeks to create a new registration or permit process that would allow home cooks to sell directly to customers while complying with a series of health, safety, sanitation, and education guidelines,” said Matt Jorgensen, the co-CEO of Josephine, an online food sales platform headquartered in Oakland. Josephine sponsored the new legislation after cooks in several Bay Area cities selling meals through its site received \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/05/11/food-startup-josephine-pauses-east-bay-operations/\">cease-and-desist orders from health regulators last summer\u003c/a>. The company continues to operate in Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine made the foray into the legislative process early last year, but the bill’s first iteration was killed on arrival, shot down by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccdeh.com/\">California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health\u003c/a> (CCDEH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hadn’t worked with them to develop a policy. They told us that if there was going to be some sort of legitimization of this informal economy, then they needed to be part of it, and it needed to be a new permit process,” said Jorgensen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within months, the health regulators developed an ad hoc committee to develop the language of the legislation and permit process. At the same time, Josephine assembled a working group made up of home cooks, legal experts from the UCLA and Harvard Food Law Clinics, and other stakeholders including the California Food Policy Council, the Cottage Food Operator’s Association of America, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the stakeholders were in place, Josephine’s representatives connected with Assemblymember Garcia, who had already expressed a desire to revisit homemade food laws as a way to develop his policy agenda of economic empowerment of minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, Josephine also worked closely with SELC and Christina Oatfield, a policy director with the organization, who was a key architect of the 2012 Cottage Food Act. However, SELC recently stepped away from the new, expanded legislation, saying they were not comfortable with the potential \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6A3kWTsNM\">“Uberization” of food\u003c/a> posed by the participation of companies like Josephine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oatfield, SELC will only support further homemade food legislation if it \u003ca href=\"http://www.theselc.org/creating_community_owned_food_systems\">ensures\u003c/a> some form of community ownership of any web platforms involved in the sale of homemade foods. They’d like to see a provision that limits that ownership to cooks and/or eater-owned cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, or government agencies. The model they proposed is based on the way certified farmers’ markets are run in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a whole industry that’s operated by stakeholder groups—farmers, home cooks, nonprofit organization groups, local governments—it really changes the dynamic and changes the priorities for the industry—compared to tech companies that are for-profit and backed by venture capitalists out to make huge profits,” explained Oatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how such a law would be enforced. It could be through individual court actions, or through a limit on the types of web platforms that receive permits from environmental health regulators at the county or city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear is that a company like Josephine, as it’s currently structured, would not be allowed to operate legally under SELC’s proposal. At play, says Oatfield, are important questions about whether home cooks will be considered independent contractors, and whether they will have any protections under employment law. There are also questions about whether the cooks working with online platforms will be pressed to cook more food faster or with lower-quality ingredients, either of which could affect food safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what’s going to happen, but looking at other industries where tech has come in and shaken things up, we have a lot of reasons to be concerned,” added Oatfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the idea of having an nonprofit or co-op model because our margins aren’t going to be big,” said Christina Nelson, the baker. Home kitchens aren’t set up to mass-produce, she points out. “It’s not like anyone is getting rich off of doing this in their home and if a for-profit company took a good chunk, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, Jorgensen addressed some of these issues in a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.josephine.com/towards-a-more-sharing-economy-d06181092f81\">statement.\u003c/a> As he explained it, Josephine takes a 10 percent cut of a cook’s sales. In addition, Josephine has established a Cook Council to act as a communication bridge between the company and the cooks; a representative from the council holds a seat on Josephine’s Board of Directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine co-CEO Charley Wang \u003ca href=\"https://blog.josephine.com/last-month-josephine-introduced-a-new-bill-that-would-allow-home-cooks-to-make-money-selling-food-9281a42616f8\">has argued\u003c/a> from the start that it’s possible for a for-profit tech company to empower and give agency to their providers rather than exploiting them for maximum output and profit. In exchange, cooks—some of whom lack the language and/or technology skills to market themselves—get an established platform that, in theory, gives access to the support and resources they need to sell their food to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree with Wang. A self-professed “great fan of cooperatives,” Peter Ruddock, a coordinator with \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CalFPC/\">California Food Policy Council \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-california\">Slow Food California\u003c/a>, says linking homemade food and cooperatives complicates the legislation without offering significant benefits. Furthermore, he says it was easy for Uber for commodify rides, which aren’t all that unique. It’ll be harder for a tech company to commodify homemade meals, which vary by geography, ingredients, and individual chefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Ruddock thinks we should welcome any opportunity to expand local food businesses. “This is one of many steps to reconnect with our food,” he said. “This [new homemade food legislation] is the next step in what is probably going to be a long-term process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, some cooks have already turned to tech companies as support for their home cooking endeavors. In addition to Josephine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mealsurfers-food-cooks-hungry-1.3312848\">Meal Surfers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://la.eater.com/2015/10/7/9472893/delivery-app-mytable-cooks-local-meal-new\">MyTable\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://umi.kitchen/\">Umi Kitchen\u003c/a> are hoping to engage home chefs in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the benefits are tangible where it’s working. Take Ramona Chitrakar-Walson, who immigrated to the U.S. from Nepal. Now a mother of two living in Seattle, Washington, Chitrakar-Walson uses the Josephine site to sell authentic Nepalese meals to fellow immigrants from Nepal and other curious eaters. She’d considered joining a cooking club or selling momos (Nepali dumplings) at the local farmers’ market, but she balked at the start-up costs and paperwork involved in starting her own business. The ready-to-go tech platform has allowed her to focus on cooking meals for her home and connecting with the local community instead\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t have been able to start anything like this on my own,” said Chitrakar-Walson.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of high-end ice cream. Dessert is often best without too many bells and whistles, and I've found myself repeatedly underwhelmed by the many highly touted ice cream spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Salt & Straw, however, did not disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, even at 9 p.m. on a Monday, there was a line. And yes, two single scoops (one cone, one cup) and a small brownie sundae cost $24 total after tip. But if you can afford the time and the money, it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg\" alt=\"The line at Salt & Straw's new Fillmore location.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116992\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The line at Salt & Straw's new Fillmore location. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg\" alt=\"The serving bar and flavors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116989\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The serving bar and flavors. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Started in Portland in 2011 by Kim and Tyler Malek, Salt & Straw has four locations there, five in Los Angeles, and now one (soon, two) in San Francisco. The first Bay Area spot opened on Fillmore Street two weeks ago, with a second location expected later this year in Hayes Valley. The appeal for that long line out the door is in the high-quality ingredients, typically sourced from local purveyors like Sightglass Coffee and Dandelion Chocolate here, and the handmade one-of-a-kind flavor combinations. Most famously that's included things like pear and blue cheese, or Oregon ham soft serve -- neither of which are available in San Francisco yet. The duo has also partnered with breweries and even school kids to create new flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, they've created locally-inspired limited time flavors that change monthly. For San Francisco in April that includes: cinnamon ancho and cajeta, with goat cheese from Tomales Farmstead Creamery; green apple mayo sherbet, made with apple juice from the Sierra Nevada foothills, apple cider vinegar from Sonoma, and Berkeley olive oil; cascara shrub with candied hibiscus, from coffee bean and apple cider vinegar shrub from Berkeley; strawberry coriander leaf sorbet, with a coriander leaf essence from Mandy Aftel of Aftelier Perfumes; and caramelized almond s'mores, made with Annie's graham crackers and Feve Artisan Chocolatier almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store, itself, also has local touches, with designs from local artists and a shelf of treats or odds and ends you can buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg\" alt=\"Carmalized almond s'mores\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2045\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116994\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-800x799.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-768x767.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-1180x1178.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-960x959.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-520x519.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmalized almond s'mores \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Salt & Straw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We tried the carmalized almond s'mores. The bite from the caramel and the salt of the almond mixed perfectly with the chocolate and graham crackers. More than many s'mores flavors at other ice cream shops, you could really taste the graham crackers, which added a nice after-taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116990\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Salted honey marshmallow and walnuts in a fresh cone.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-116990\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salted honey marshmallow and walnuts in a fresh cone. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the speciality flavors attract all the attention, don't ignore the classics, which take up the other half of the chalkboard menu. These include things like salted ganache, and sea salt with caramel ribbons. My favorite flavor was the classic salted honey marshmallow and walnuts. It was a perfect blend of salty and sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, waffle cones are made fresh behind the counter -- and smell as delicious as they taste. You can order a single ($5) or double scoop ($7), split your scoops among different flavors, and add extras like sprinkles, salt, or a fresh waffle cone. If you really can't decide, tasting flights of four flavors for $11 might be the way to go. They come in four small glass bowls on a board, much like a beer tasting flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, simply order a pint out of the freezer and skip the line. You can also join \u003ca href=\"http://saltandstraw.com/seasonal-pints-club/\" target=\"_blank\">the Pints Club\u003c/a> to have five pints of the seasonal flavors delivered straight to your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1480px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg\" alt=\"Pints are available\" width=\"1480\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg 1480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-800x1107.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-768x1063.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-1020x1411.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-1180x1633.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-960x1328.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-240x332.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-375x519.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-520x720.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pints are available \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Salt & Straw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing on the menu are the special sundaes and shakes. The brownie sundae seemed like a good test of an ice cream shop standard. We tried it with their doublefold vanilla, handmade brownies, hot fudge, and hazelnuts. That sounds like a huge dish, but it wasn't. It came in the regular-sized small cup, with the brownie packed at the bottom. While it was rich and filling, it was probably my least favorite of the things we tried -- just because the bar for unique flavor combinations was so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been prepared to be underwhelmed, but instead was impressed by the fresh and creative ice cream. Get yourself in line. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://saltandstraw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt & Straw\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2201 Fillmore St., San Francisco [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/Lo87aq\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n(415) 829-2803\u003cbr>\nHours: daily, 11 am. to 11 p.m.\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SaltandStraw/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt & Straw Ice Cream\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/saltandstraw\" target=\"_blank\">@saltandstraw\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/saltandstraw/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SaltandStraw\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $$ ($5/scoop)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of high-end ice cream. Dessert is often best without too many bells and whistles, and I've found myself repeatedly underwhelmed by the many highly touted ice cream spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Salt & Straw, however, did not disappoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, even at 9 p.m. on a Monday, there was a line. And yes, two single scoops (one cone, one cup) and a small brownie sundae cost $24 total after tip. But if you can afford the time and the money, it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg\" alt=\"The line at Salt & Straw's new Fillmore location.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116992\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/St-Benoit-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The line at Salt & Straw's new Fillmore location. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg\" alt=\"The serving bar and flavors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116989\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The serving bar and flavors. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Started in Portland in 2011 by Kim and Tyler Malek, Salt & Straw has four locations there, five in Los Angeles, and now one (soon, two) in San Francisco. The first Bay Area spot opened on Fillmore Street two weeks ago, with a second location expected later this year in Hayes Valley. The appeal for that long line out the door is in the high-quality ingredients, typically sourced from local purveyors like Sightglass Coffee and Dandelion Chocolate here, and the handmade one-of-a-kind flavor combinations. Most famously that's included things like pear and blue cheese, or Oregon ham soft serve -- neither of which are available in San Francisco yet. The duo has also partnered with breweries and even school kids to create new flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, they've created locally-inspired limited time flavors that change monthly. For San Francisco in April that includes: cinnamon ancho and cajeta, with goat cheese from Tomales Farmstead Creamery; green apple mayo sherbet, made with apple juice from the Sierra Nevada foothills, apple cider vinegar from Sonoma, and Berkeley olive oil; cascara shrub with candied hibiscus, from coffee bean and apple cider vinegar shrub from Berkeley; strawberry coriander leaf sorbet, with a coriander leaf essence from Mandy Aftel of Aftelier Perfumes; and caramelized almond s'mores, made with Annie's graham crackers and Feve Artisan Chocolatier almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store, itself, also has local touches, with designs from local artists and a shelf of treats or odds and ends you can buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg\" alt=\"Carmalized almond s'mores\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2045\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116994\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-800x799.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-768x767.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-1020x1019.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-1180x1178.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-960x959.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-375x374.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-520x519.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/18077365_1303435339710746_1839909151321124394_o-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmalized almond s'mores \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Salt & Straw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We tried the carmalized almond s'mores. The bite from the caramel and the salt of the almond mixed perfectly with the chocolate and graham crackers. More than many s'mores flavors at other ice cream shops, you could really taste the graham crackers, which added a nice after-taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116990\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Salted honey marshmallow and walnuts in a fresh cone.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-large wp-image-116990\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/ice-cream-2-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salted honey marshmallow and walnuts in a fresh cone. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the speciality flavors attract all the attention, don't ignore the classics, which take up the other half of the chalkboard menu. These include things like salted ganache, and sea salt with caramel ribbons. My favorite flavor was the classic salted honey marshmallow and walnuts. It was a perfect blend of salty and sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, waffle cones are made fresh behind the counter -- and smell as delicious as they taste. You can order a single ($5) or double scoop ($7), split your scoops among different flavors, and add extras like sprinkles, salt, or a fresh waffle cone. If you really can't decide, tasting flights of four flavors for $11 might be the way to go. They come in four small glass bowls on a board, much like a beer tasting flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, simply order a pint out of the freezer and skip the line. You can also join \u003ca href=\"http://saltandstraw.com/seasonal-pints-club/\" target=\"_blank\">the Pints Club\u003c/a> to have five pints of the seasonal flavors delivered straight to your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1480px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg\" alt=\"Pints are available\" width=\"1480\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o.jpg 1480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-800x1107.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-768x1063.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-1020x1411.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-1180x1633.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-960x1328.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-240x332.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-375x519.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/15129608_1145506872170261_3463471780641975536_o-520x720.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pints are available \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Salt & Straw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last thing on the menu are the special sundaes and shakes. The brownie sundae seemed like a good test of an ice cream shop standard. We tried it with their doublefold vanilla, handmade brownies, hot fudge, and hazelnuts. That sounds like a huge dish, but it wasn't. It came in the regular-sized small cup, with the brownie packed at the bottom. While it was rich and filling, it was probably my least favorite of the things we tried -- just because the bar for unique flavor combinations was so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been prepared to be underwhelmed, but instead was impressed by the fresh and creative ice cream. Get yourself in line. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://saltandstraw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt & Straw\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2201 Fillmore St., San Francisco [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/Lo87aq\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n(415) 829-2803\u003cbr>\nHours: daily, 11 am. to 11 p.m.\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SaltandStraw/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt & Straw Ice Cream\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/saltandstraw\" target=\"_blank\">@saltandstraw\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/saltandstraw/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">SaltandStraw\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $$ ($5/scoop)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://noevalleybakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Noe Valley Bakery\u003c/a> wanted to open a second location, they didn’t ask a bank or angel investors for financing. Instead, they turned to their customers—a loyal bunch who had grown with the company during the twenty years at their original location. The owners asked those customers to start a prepaid tab at their new West Portal shop, allowing the bakery to raise start-up costs, while also ensuring a steady flow of traffic to the new location. The unusual proposition worked. The bakery raised over $10,000, and opened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hoodline.com/2017/03/noe-valley-bakery-debuts-second-location-in-west-portal\" target=\"_blank\">West Portal location\u003c/a> at the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery’s successful opening, in a time when many Bay Area restaurants are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/12/27/heres-why-2016-was-rough-for-bay-area-restaurants/\" target=\"_blank\">struggling with money issues\u003c/a>, was the result of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Credibles\u003c/a>, a company that provides a way for customers to financially support their favorite food businesses. Customers prepay a business—starting a tab with their local butcher shop, coffee shop, or dairy farm—which they draw from on subsequent visits. Instead of pulling out their wallets, Credibles customers get purchases subtracted from their tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres.png\" alt=\"Credibles helps customers fund their favorite food businesses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-768x768.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credibles helps customers fund their favorite food businesses. \u003ccite>(Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a simple model, but it can make a big difference to small food businesses, who love it because it helps remove the economic uncertainty that comes in the food world. It’s particularly helpful for farmers, who have to put money upfront for a season’s crops, uncertain if they’ll make it back at farmers markets months later. For retail businesses it’s an easy way to raise money for big expenses, like another location or a new roasting machine, while gaining a group of confirmed customers: the company says that customers who prepay return to the business one-and-a-half to two times more often than they previously did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For customers, Credibles offers a simple way to invest in the success of a local business without having to change their daily routine. Many businesses offer an incentive for a larger prepayment: If you prepay $400 at Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://thelocalbutchershop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Butcher Shop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/local-butcher\" target=\"_blank\">you’ll get $440 in credit\u003c/a>. It’s also convenient. Businesses simply note that a person is paying with their Credibles account, so customers can still make purchases if they’ve forgot their wallet. It’s like being a VIP at your neighborhood’s organic fruit farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Credibles was started in San Francisco in 2014 by founder Arno Hesse. Hesse, who describes himself as a “bank executive in recovery,” is part of the “\u003ca href=\"https://slowmoney.org/\" target=\"_blank\">slow money\u003c/a>” movement, which provides sustainable financing for local food ventures. He was with some fellow investors at a chicken ranch in Vacaville that they had provided with a group loan. Don’t worry about the loan’s interest, Hesse told the farmer. Just pay it in eggs. The farmer thought for a moment. Could she pay the entire loan back in eggs? she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry, Hesse told her. There were only so many eggs he could eat. Besides, he joked, his doctor had warned him about his cholesterol levels. “Unfortunately I’m not in the business of peddling egg credits,” he remembers telling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the drive home, Hesse and the other investors started talking. What if they created a system where businesses could repay loans from customers with edible credits? It would be a particularly good fit for food companies. Unlike a winery, for example, where people might buy a case and not need to come back for months at a time, customers constantly return to the same food businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a trial period in 2013, Credibles launched in 2014. It started with just a handful of Bay Area businesses, and is now available in several hundred businesses across ten states. While it serves as a kind of loan for the businesses, the company legally falls under the same regulations as gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o.jpg\" alt=\"Produce at the Mandela Foods Cooperative.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-768x529.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-960x662.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Produce at the Mandela Foods Cooperative. \u003ccite>(Mandela Foods Cooperative/Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Credible’s biggest challenge is getting the word out, and convincing food businesses to add another computer program to their setup. “A lot of food businesses are distinctly off line,” said Hesse. “We have been testing out fliers and signs in businesses, getting the word out to the customer that this is the new thing. When people get a chance to see what it is, people say, ‘Oh it’s so simple.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge is the rise in alternative ways to pay for things. In recent years, technologies from bitcoins to Apple Pay have promised to revolutionize the way we spend money. Credibles is the rare new payment method that relies less on technology, not more. Yes, they have an app so customers can track how much credit they have left, but the strength of the Credibles system comes from the in-person connection between customer and producer, Hesse said. The Credibles website references \u003cem>Cheers\u003c/em>, and it’s obvious that that’s the kind of of local camaraderie Hesse wants to foster. “Apple Pay and Android Pay, they do \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/androidpay/merchant/answer/6345242?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">virtualized tokens \u003c/a>that can be used only once to minimize the transaction for security,” he said. “Our security token is somebody [saying], ‘Oh, it’s the [customer’s] face.’ We know each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8.jpg\" alt=\"Credibles partnered with Oakland's Mandela Foods Cooperative for their Fresh Creds program, which incentives customers to purchase produce.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-800x1037.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-768x995.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-1020x1322.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-1180x1529.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-960x1244.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-240x311.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-375x486.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-520x674.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credibles partnered with Oakland's Mandela Foods Cooperative for their Fresh Creds program, which incentives customers to purchase produce. \u003ccite>(Mandela Foods Cooperative/Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There have been several success stories like the Noe Valley Bakery. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/markegard\" target=\"_blank\">Markegard Family Ranch\u003c/a> near Pescadero, which sells its humanely-raised meat through a Credibles-supported CSA. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/drivers\" target=\"_blank\">Driver’s Market\u003c/a> in Sausalito, which marshaled a small army of “Designated Drivers” to prepay for their groceries, so the store can recover from the cost of a blown generator. Hesse is proud of those stories. But he’s especially proud of the work they’re doing with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mandelamarketplace.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mandela MarketPlace\u003c/a>. The nonprofit uses Credibles to run their \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/fresh-creds\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Creds program\u003c/a> at stores like the Mandela Foods Cooperative, where for every dollar SNAP customers spend on produce, they get 50 cents of credit to spend on fruits and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hesse wants Credibles to be used for projects big and small, as helpful a source of funding for projects in food deserts as it is for those in wealthy Marin neighborhoods. In the future, the disenchanted former banking executive wants Credibles to be used as frequently as the bank loans of his previous life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love if this becomes mainstream. Even a busy family with four kids and two earners can get involved in this,” he said. “We’re all eating, we're all consumers, but only a few people are investors and funders. We want to turn that around.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://noevalleybakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Noe Valley Bakery\u003c/a> wanted to open a second location, they didn’t ask a bank or angel investors for financing. Instead, they turned to their customers—a loyal bunch who had grown with the company during the twenty years at their original location. The owners asked those customers to start a prepaid tab at their new West Portal shop, allowing the bakery to raise start-up costs, while also ensuring a steady flow of traffic to the new location. The unusual proposition worked. The bakery raised over $10,000, and opened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hoodline.com/2017/03/noe-valley-bakery-debuts-second-location-in-west-portal\" target=\"_blank\">West Portal location\u003c/a> at the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery’s successful opening, in a time when many Bay Area restaurants are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/12/27/heres-why-2016-was-rough-for-bay-area-restaurants/\" target=\"_blank\">struggling with money issues\u003c/a>, was the result of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Credibles\u003c/a>, a company that provides a way for customers to financially support their favorite food businesses. Customers prepay a business—starting a tab with their local butcher shop, coffee shop, or dairy farm—which they draw from on subsequent visits. Instead of pulling out their wallets, Credibles customers get purchases subtracted from their tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres.png\" alt=\"Credibles helps customers fund their favorite food businesses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-800x800.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-768x768.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-1180x1180.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-960x960.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Credibles-logo-highres-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credibles helps customers fund their favorite food businesses. \u003ccite>(Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a simple model, but it can make a big difference to small food businesses, who love it because it helps remove the economic uncertainty that comes in the food world. It’s particularly helpful for farmers, who have to put money upfront for a season’s crops, uncertain if they’ll make it back at farmers markets months later. For retail businesses it’s an easy way to raise money for big expenses, like another location or a new roasting machine, while gaining a group of confirmed customers: the company says that customers who prepay return to the business one-and-a-half to two times more often than they previously did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For customers, Credibles offers a simple way to invest in the success of a local business without having to change their daily routine. Many businesses offer an incentive for a larger prepayment: If you prepay $400 at Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://thelocalbutchershop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Butcher Shop\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/local-butcher\" target=\"_blank\">you’ll get $440 in credit\u003c/a>. It’s also convenient. 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While it serves as a kind of loan for the businesses, the company legally falls under the same regulations as gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o.jpg\" alt=\"Produce at the Mandela Foods Cooperative.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-768x529.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-1180x813.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-960x662.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/10329780_758398874191474_2330393922114283659_o-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Produce at the Mandela Foods Cooperative. \u003ccite>(Mandela Foods Cooperative/Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Credible’s biggest challenge is getting the word out, and convincing food businesses to add another computer program to their setup. “A lot of food businesses are distinctly off line,” said Hesse. “We have been testing out fliers and signs in businesses, getting the word out to the customer that this is the new thing. When people get a chance to see what it is, people say, ‘Oh it’s so simple.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge is the rise in alternative ways to pay for things. In recent years, technologies from bitcoins to Apple Pay have promised to revolutionize the way we spend money. Credibles is the rare new payment method that relies less on technology, not more. Yes, they have an app so customers can track how much credit they have left, but the strength of the Credibles system comes from the in-person connection between customer and producer, Hesse said. The Credibles website references \u003cem>Cheers\u003c/em>, and it’s obvious that that’s the kind of of local camaraderie Hesse wants to foster. “Apple Pay and Android Pay, they do \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/androidpay/merchant/answer/6345242?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">virtualized tokens \u003c/a>that can be used only once to minimize the transaction for security,” he said. “Our security token is somebody [saying], ‘Oh, it’s the [customer’s] face.’ We know each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8.jpg\" alt=\"Credibles partnered with Oakland's Mandela Foods Cooperative for their Fresh Creds program, which incentives customers to purchase produce.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-800x1037.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-768x995.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-1020x1322.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-1180x1529.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-960x1244.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-240x311.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-375x486.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/c9213d65-762e-4291-a420-aa3784c88fc8-520x674.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credibles partnered with Oakland's Mandela Foods Cooperative for their Fresh Creds program, which incentives customers to purchase produce. \u003ccite>(Mandela Foods Cooperative/Credibles )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There have been several success stories like the Noe Valley Bakery. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/markegard\" target=\"_blank\">Markegard Family Ranch\u003c/a> near Pescadero, which sells its humanely-raised meat through a Credibles-supported CSA. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/drivers\" target=\"_blank\">Driver’s Market\u003c/a> in Sausalito, which marshaled a small army of “Designated Drivers” to prepay for their groceries, so the store can recover from the cost of a blown generator. Hesse is proud of those stories. But he’s especially proud of the work they’re doing with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mandelamarketplace.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mandela MarketPlace\u003c/a>. The nonprofit uses Credibles to run their \u003ca href=\"https://credibles.co/offering/fresh-creds\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Creds program\u003c/a> at stores like the Mandela Foods Cooperative, where for every dollar SNAP customers spend on produce, they get 50 cents of credit to spend on fruits and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hesse wants Credibles to be used for projects big and small, as helpful a source of funding for projects in food deserts as it is for those in wealthy Marin neighborhoods. In the future, the disenchanted former banking executive wants Credibles to be used as frequently as the bank loans of his previous life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "La Cocina's 'Voices from the Kitchen' Speak Passionately on Race",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd-.jpg\" alt=\"A full house of engaged audience members learn from Voices from the Kitchen.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd-.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A full house of engaged audience members learn from Voices from the Kitchen. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a>’s latest storytelling performance on April 7 at The Swedish American Hall featured the impassioned words of more than a dozen chefs, poets, writers, historians and activists on the topic of \u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/storytellers-1-1/\">\u003cstrong>Race\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. The evening started with food and drinks from both well-known chefs and a couple of graduates from La Cocina’s Incubator program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some highlights from the two-hour performance:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"People’s Kitchen Collective: Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson inspired the crowd with their words and songs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-768x554.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-960x692.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Kitchen Collective: Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson inspired the crowd with their words and songs. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-founders of the \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/\">People’s Kitchen Collective\u003c/a> (PKC) Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson entered from the audience, while Jackson sang in a deep throaty voice, “We who believe in freedom cannot rest…until it’s found.” Then all three alternated with a barrage of wisdom: “We have so much fucking faith in the power of food to fix everything.” “For centuries, food has been a weapon...keeping us stuffed and starved.” “Food deserts are not a naturally occurring phenomenon.” “Food is a strategy for resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The PKC shared the story of the Black Panther Party's hugely successful Free Breakfast Program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-1020x798.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-960x751.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-240x188.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-375x293.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-520x407.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PKC shared the story of the Black Panther Party's hugely successful Free Breakfast Program. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As inspiration, they described the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/free-breakfast-program/\">Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for School Children program\u003c/a> that began in Oakland in 1969 and in a few years fed over 100,000 children nationwide. It was so successful that it inspired fear in J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, who called it “the most dangerous domestic threat to national security.” The PKC explained that while the state was trying to keep food out of the hands of black and brown children, the Black Panther Party viewed breakfast as an active tool of resistance. The breakfast program was revolutionary. And now there are free breakfast and lunch programs in schools. Why don't they come with a history lesson? they ask. Why don’t we teach children the roots of that meal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three co-founders of the PKC then challenged the so-called “Farm to Table” movement to acknowledge that food does not magically make it from the farm to the table without the toil of people in the middle. It would be more accurately termed “Farm to Kitchen to Table.” And why, they asked, should this food be enjoyed only in restaurants? The meal can’t end at the table. It should be accessible to all people, so a better motto would be “Farm to Kitchen to Table to Streets.” And they exhorted the audience to take this message out on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116770\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW.jpg\" alt='Bonnie Tsui showed some of the offensive names used for the supposedly \"Asian salad\" that is a mainstay on restaurant menus all over the country.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-800x670.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-768x643.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-1020x854.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-1180x988.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-960x804.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-240x201.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-375x314.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-520x435.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonnie Tsui showed some of the offensive names used for the supposedly \"Asian salad\" that is a mainstay on restaurant menus all over the country. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonnietsui.com/\">Bonnie Tsui\u003c/a> shared her quest to solve “the curious case of the Asian salad,” a dish cooked up by non-Asians, which is so common on a swath of American restaurant menus that we don’t even question its Asian-ness. The mystery stems from its raw vegetable ingredients, which are not traditionally served in China. In the popular imagination, adding soy sauce or sesame oil somehow transforms it to being “Asian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tsui’s issue with this ubiquitous dish is less with its supposedly “Asian” ingredients and more with the variety of offensive names with which it is labeled at places like TGIFridays, Cheesecake Factory, Rainforest Café, and Applebee's. She showed slides of menus with names like “Asian Emperor salad,” “Oriental chop chop,” “Mr. Mao’s” and “secret Asian man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the subject is just salad, Tsui views the use of broad terms to reference an entire continent as stereotypical. The problem is that the words are a blind spot for white people who don’t consider themselves racist. And even with a bowl of salad, words do matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW.jpg\" alt='Three members of the woman-led collaborative of people of color, Nourish/Resist, who spoke about micro-aggressions, macro-impact, \"staying woke\" and creating safe spaces.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the woman-led collaborative of people of color, Nourish/Resist, urged people to disrupt micro-aggressions. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three members of the \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/\">woman-led collaborative\u003c/a> of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/04/04/fighting-trump-one-delicious-meal-at-a-time-with-nourishresist/\">Nourish/Resist\u003c/a>, encouraged audience members to check their language and privilege, \"stay woke\" and create safe spaces for stories of struggle and survival. They use food as a tool for resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 467px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2.jpg\" alt=\"Culinary historian Michael Twitty shares stories from his childhood that ultimately led him to focus on preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways.\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2.jpg 467w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-375x562.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Culinary historian Michael Twitty shares stories from his childhood that ultimately led him to focus on preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Culinary historian Michael Twitty, author of the award-winning blog \u003ca href=\"https://afroculinaria.com/\">Afroculinaria\u003c/a>, recounted that as a kid, he hated soul food and hated being black, even though he was “the great-grandson of Jim Crow people.” If he didn’t like The Wiz, of course, he hated collard greens and chitterlings. He called okra “an instrument of Black medieval torture” and longed for fast food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until one day when his grandmother said, “we’re gonna make some lemonade” and started singing a song “lemonade, lemonade, made in the shade, stirred with a spade…” When he asked her about the song she told him it was a slave song passed down from her great-grandfather who was born into slavery. That piqued his curiosity and once he started asking questions, “the kitchen was filled with ancestors and I got to meet them.” He also learned the stories behind the iconic dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chitterlings was the story of using the whole animal. People who had nothing could waste nothing. Collard greens represented strength.” When his grandmother said “we carried okra seeds in our hair,” he understood, that while seeds may not have literally been carried in hair, “they represent the seeds for everything we had carried in our heads and you couldn’t take that away from us.” So in teaching him about food, his grandmother taught him his own black history. As Twitty put it, “Teaching me not to hate my soul, but how to love it. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Saru Jayaraman of ROC exhorts the crowd to take action to end low wages, unfair practices and segregation in the restaurant industry.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-800x584.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-768x561.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-960x701.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saru Jayaraman of ROC exhorts the crowd to take action to end low wages, unfair practices and segregation in the restaurant industry. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her talk, entitled \"On Ending Jim Crow In The Bay Area Restaurant Industry,\" Saru Jayaraman of \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">ROC United\u003c/a> (Restaurant Opportunities Centers United) discussed her organization’s goal to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s 12 million restaurant workers. She reminded the audience that while white men can earn $150,000/year as fine dining servers or bartenders, the majority of food service workers are the lowest paid of all employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman also shared the shocking news that numerous surveys in cities across the U.S. have found that the largest race-based wage gap in the country is found right here in the Bay Area, where there is a $5.50/hour gap between white workers and workers of color. “We are better than this,\" she told the audience. “We think we are progressive, but we are not and we participate in segregation every time we eat out. Each of us has to take a part in changing the way we eat out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she introduced noted chef, restaurateur and author \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patterson_(chef)\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a>, who is spearheading a project with other chefs to desegregate their kitchens and collaborate on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/WhatTheFork/archives/2016/02/16/a-nonprofit-restaurant-in-east-oakland-will-aim-to-prioritize-people-over-profits\">upcoming COLORS restaurant\u003c/a> in Oakland. Located near the Fruitvale BART station, it will train hundred of workers of color. Patterson wants to create a model for standardizing hiring and promotions because “as long as there is implicit bias, you can train all the workers in the world but they will never get hired.” His goal is to change the face of fine dining “until fine dining does not resemble Trump's America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fields shares her stories of growing up in the rural South and discovering La Cocina, where she got support for her business Sugarfoot.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Fields shares her stories of growing up in the rural South and discovering La Cocina, where she got support for her business Sugarfoot. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most compelling stories of the evening was delivered by Stephanie Fields, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sugarfootkitchen.com\">Sugarfoot Kitchen\u003c/a>, a “Southern comfort catering company,” and a graduate of La Cocina. Her pepper jelly turkey meatballs were a standout at the pre-show food tasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields described her hometown of Henderson, North Carolina in the rural South, a place where the working poor are disillusioned and angry and 36% of residents live in poverty. In a town where 60% of the population is Black, she told us, “You can still call up the KKK for your daily dose of hate from Grand Wizard Mr. Bobbit (and she played his offensive phone recording to prove it). While her family often used the n-word in anger, Fields grew up with friends from both cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fields' moist and flavorful pepper turkey meatballs were a crowd pleaser.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Fields' moist and flavorful pepper turkey meatballs were a crowd pleaser. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She started her business through La Cocina’s incubator program in 2013 and plans to open her Southern restaurant in San Francisco’s Portola district this fall. But Fields confessed that a crisis of conscience almost caused her to close Sugarfoot just one month after she opened it. It happened when she read an open letter that Michael Twitty penned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/paula-deen-racist-comments-n-word-caught-on-video_n_3467287.html\">Paula Deen after the uproar\u003c/a> about her use of racist comments. He wrote, “We are surrounded by culinary injustice where some Southerners take credit for things that enslaved Africans and their descendants played key roles in disseminating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields stated, “I had to make a choice not to be “some southerner.” After reading Twitty’s words, she realized that there would be no Southern food without slavery and wondered if she could still claim the food she grew up on -- the okra, collard greens and cheese grits -- as her own. After doing research and talking to friends across race and gender lines, she decided, “I am Southern and I had to eat something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also realized: “I cannot undo the pain, undo the shame and undo the history, but what I can do is acknowledge where this food comes from and I can be grateful and be kind.” “Empathy,” she added, “is being a member of a tribe that isn’t yours, but still is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The next \u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/\">F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\u003c/a> event will be on October 19 with the theme: \u003cstrong>Refuge\u003c/strong>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd-.jpg\" alt=\"A full house of engaged audience members learn from Voices from the Kitchen.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd-.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-the-crowd--520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A full house of engaged audience members learn from Voices from the Kitchen. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a>’s latest storytelling performance on April 7 at The Swedish American Hall featured the impassioned words of more than a dozen chefs, poets, writers, historians and activists on the topic of \u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/storytellers-1-1/\">\u003cstrong>Race\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. The evening started with food and drinks from both well-known chefs and a couple of graduates from La Cocina’s Incubator program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some highlights from the two-hour performance:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"People’s Kitchen Collective: Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson inspired the crowd with their words and songs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-768x554.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-960x692.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1-PKC-NEW-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Kitchen Collective: Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson inspired the crowd with their words and songs. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-founders of the \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/\">People’s Kitchen Collective\u003c/a> (PKC) Saqib Keval, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and Jocelyn Jackson entered from the audience, while Jackson sang in a deep throaty voice, “We who believe in freedom cannot rest…until it’s found.” Then all three alternated with a barrage of wisdom: “We have so much fucking faith in the power of food to fix everything.” “For centuries, food has been a weapon...keeping us stuffed and starved.” “Food deserts are not a naturally occurring phenomenon.” “Food is a strategy for resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"The PKC shared the story of the Black Panther Party's hugely successful Free Breakfast Program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-160x125.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-1020x798.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-960x751.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-240x188.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-375x293.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-PKC-BPP-NEW-520x407.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The PKC shared the story of the Black Panther Party's hugely successful Free Breakfast Program. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As inspiration, they described the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/free-breakfast-program/\">Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for School Children program\u003c/a> that began in Oakland in 1969 and in a few years fed over 100,000 children nationwide. It was so successful that it inspired fear in J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, who called it “the most dangerous domestic threat to national security.” The PKC explained that while the state was trying to keep food out of the hands of black and brown children, the Black Panther Party viewed breakfast as an active tool of resistance. The breakfast program was revolutionary. And now there are free breakfast and lunch programs in schools. Why don't they come with a history lesson? they ask. Why don’t we teach children the roots of that meal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three co-founders of the PKC then challenged the so-called “Farm to Table” movement to acknowledge that food does not magically make it from the farm to the table without the toil of people in the middle. It would be more accurately termed “Farm to Kitchen to Table.” And why, they asked, should this food be enjoyed only in restaurants? The meal can’t end at the table. It should be accessible to all people, so a better motto would be “Farm to Kitchen to Table to Streets.” And they exhorted the audience to take this message out on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116770\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW.jpg\" alt='Bonnie Tsui showed some of the offensive names used for the supposedly \"Asian salad\" that is a mainstay on restaurant menus all over the country.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-800x670.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-768x643.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-1020x854.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-1180x988.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-960x804.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-240x201.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-375x314.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-Asian-salad-NEW-520x435.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonnie Tsui showed some of the offensive names used for the supposedly \"Asian salad\" that is a mainstay on restaurant menus all over the country. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Journalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonnietsui.com/\">Bonnie Tsui\u003c/a> shared her quest to solve “the curious case of the Asian salad,” a dish cooked up by non-Asians, which is so common on a swath of American restaurant menus that we don’t even question its Asian-ness. The mystery stems from its raw vegetable ingredients, which are not traditionally served in China. In the popular imagination, adding soy sauce or sesame oil somehow transforms it to being “Asian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tsui’s issue with this ubiquitous dish is less with its supposedly “Asian” ingredients and more with the variety of offensive names with which it is labeled at places like TGIFridays, Cheesecake Factory, Rainforest Café, and Applebee's. She showed slides of menus with names like “Asian Emperor salad,” “Oriental chop chop,” “Mr. Mao’s” and “secret Asian man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the subject is just salad, Tsui views the use of broad terms to reference an entire continent as stereotypical. The problem is that the words are a blind spot for white people who don’t consider themselves racist. And even with a bowl of salad, words do matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW.jpg\" alt='Three members of the woman-led collaborative of people of color, Nourish/Resist, who spoke about micro-aggressions, macro-impact, \"staying woke\" and creating safe spaces.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/nourish-resist-NEW-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the woman-led collaborative of people of color, Nourish/Resist, urged people to disrupt micro-aggressions. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three members of the \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/\">woman-led collaborative\u003c/a> of people of color, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/04/04/fighting-trump-one-delicious-meal-at-a-time-with-nourishresist/\">Nourish/Resist\u003c/a>, encouraged audience members to check their language and privilege, \"stay woke\" and create safe spaces for stories of struggle and survival. They use food as a tool for resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 467px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2.jpg\" alt=\"Culinary historian Michael Twitty shares stories from his childhood that ultimately led him to focus on preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways.\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2.jpg 467w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Michael-Twitty-2-375x562.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Culinary historian Michael Twitty shares stories from his childhood that ultimately led him to focus on preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Culinary historian Michael Twitty, author of the award-winning blog \u003ca href=\"https://afroculinaria.com/\">Afroculinaria\u003c/a>, recounted that as a kid, he hated soul food and hated being black, even though he was “the great-grandson of Jim Crow people.” If he didn’t like The Wiz, of course, he hated collard greens and chitterlings. He called okra “an instrument of Black medieval torture” and longed for fast food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until one day when his grandmother said, “we’re gonna make some lemonade” and started singing a song “lemonade, lemonade, made in the shade, stirred with a spade…” When he asked her about the song she told him it was a slave song passed down from her great-grandfather who was born into slavery. That piqued his curiosity and once he started asking questions, “the kitchen was filled with ancestors and I got to meet them.” He also learned the stories behind the iconic dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chitterlings was the story of using the whole animal. People who had nothing could waste nothing. Collard greens represented strength.” When his grandmother said “we carried okra seeds in our hair,” he understood, that while seeds may not have literally been carried in hair, “they represent the seeds for everything we had carried in our heads and you couldn’t take that away from us.” So in teaching him about food, his grandmother taught him his own black history. As Twitty put it, “Teaching me not to hate my soul, but how to love it. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Saru Jayaraman of ROC exhorts the crowd to take action to end low wages, unfair practices and segregation in the restaurant industry.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-800x584.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-768x561.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-960x701.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-Saru-NEW-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saru Jayaraman of ROC exhorts the crowd to take action to end low wages, unfair practices and segregation in the restaurant industry. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her talk, entitled \"On Ending Jim Crow In The Bay Area Restaurant Industry,\" Saru Jayaraman of \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">ROC United\u003c/a> (Restaurant Opportunities Centers United) discussed her organization’s goal to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s 12 million restaurant workers. She reminded the audience that while white men can earn $150,000/year as fine dining servers or bartenders, the majority of food service workers are the lowest paid of all employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman also shared the shocking news that numerous surveys in cities across the U.S. have found that the largest race-based wage gap in the country is found right here in the Bay Area, where there is a $5.50/hour gap between white workers and workers of color. “We are better than this,\" she told the audience. “We think we are progressive, but we are not and we participate in segregation every time we eat out. Each of us has to take a part in changing the way we eat out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she introduced noted chef, restaurateur and author \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patterson_(chef)\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a>, who is spearheading a project with other chefs to desegregate their kitchens and collaborate on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/WhatTheFork/archives/2016/02/16/a-nonprofit-restaurant-in-east-oakland-will-aim-to-prioritize-people-over-profits\">upcoming COLORS restaurant\u003c/a> in Oakland. Located near the Fruitvale BART station, it will train hundred of workers of color. Patterson wants to create a model for standardizing hiring and promotions because “as long as there is implicit bias, you can train all the workers in the world but they will never get hired.” His goal is to change the face of fine dining “until fine dining does not resemble Trump's America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1050px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fields shares her stories of growing up in the rural South and discovering La Cocina, where she got support for her business Sugarfoot.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/@JenBaxterSF-Sugarfoot-2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Fields shares her stories of growing up in the rural South and discovering La Cocina, where she got support for her business Sugarfoot. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/JenBaxterSF/\">@JenBaxterSF\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most compelling stories of the evening was delivered by Stephanie Fields, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sugarfootkitchen.com\">Sugarfoot Kitchen\u003c/a>, a “Southern comfort catering company,” and a graduate of La Cocina. Her pepper jelly turkey meatballs were a standout at the pre-show food tasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields described her hometown of Henderson, North Carolina in the rural South, a place where the working poor are disillusioned and angry and 36% of residents live in poverty. In a town where 60% of the population is Black, she told us, “You can still call up the KKK for your daily dose of hate from Grand Wizard Mr. Bobbit (and she played his offensive phone recording to prove it). While her family often used the n-word in anger, Fields grew up with friends from both cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fields' moist and flavorful pepper turkey meatballs were a crowd pleaser.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/turkey-meatballs-NEW-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Fields' moist and flavorful pepper turkey meatballs were a crowd pleaser. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She started her business through La Cocina’s incubator program in 2013 and plans to open her Southern restaurant in San Francisco’s Portola district this fall. But Fields confessed that a crisis of conscience almost caused her to close Sugarfoot just one month after she opened it. It happened when she read an open letter that Michael Twitty penned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/paula-deen-racist-comments-n-word-caught-on-video_n_3467287.html\">Paula Deen after the uproar\u003c/a> about her use of racist comments. He wrote, “We are surrounded by culinary injustice where some Southerners take credit for things that enslaved Africans and their descendants played key roles in disseminating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields stated, “I had to make a choice not to be “some southerner.” After reading Twitty’s words, she realized that there would be no Southern food without slavery and wondered if she could still claim the food she grew up on -- the okra, collard greens and cheese grits -- as her own. After doing research and talking to friends across race and gender lines, she decided, “I am Southern and I had to eat something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also realized: “I cannot undo the pain, undo the shame and undo the history, but what I can do is acknowledge where this food comes from and I can be grateful and be kind.” “Empathy,” she added, “is being a member of a tribe that isn’t yours, but still is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A lovely garden party. Inviting platters of delicate shrimp rolls and crusty \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> sandwiches. Groups of people in lively conversations, getting to know each other. But there is another powerful thread running through this recent South Bay get-together, brought into focus as hostess Thoa van Seventer shares her story of leaving Vietnam and suddenly chokes up with emotion. When American troops pulled out of Vietnam in 1975, Thoa was 17 years old. Six years later, her father succumbed to despair and passed away. Thoa, her mother and sisters remained in Saigon under Viet Cong rule until 1985 when the former French Ambassador to Vietnam sponsored her family for French residency. But at that point, Thoa had a hard choice to make since she had just received a marriage proposal from a chief military officer's son in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg\" alt=\"Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-520x410.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice breaks as she explains to the assembled guests, “I told him ‘No, thank you’ because freedom is everything; freedom is more important than a broken heart. I made a hard choice to leave everything behind.” Thoa and her family had few possessions when they arrived in Paris in the freezing cold winter of 1985. “We came to France as beggars,” she says. “When we landed, we didn’t know if we would be welcome. But I felt like a child, who was lovingly adopted by the French people. They helped us a lot. I am so grateful to the country that adopted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see pictures of the refugees now,” she adds, “I feel respect for the refugees and for the people who help them.” And with that, Thoa serves a tray of flavorful crab and asparagus soup to her guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg\" alt=\"Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This moving encounter is from the first in a series of “Tapestry Suppers” organized by Danielle Tsi, a freelance photographer and owner of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/\">Beyond the Plate\u003c/a>. Her goal is to get people together to share their experiences and break down barriers by showcasing immigrant stories and cuisines. “I want to bring people together to connect offline, instead of just getting sucked into the digital black hole of news,” says Tsi, who emigrated from Singapore ten years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-768x614.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-960x768.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant myself who is not a citizen and can’t vote, what can I do? Give money to causes. But I want to do more. There is so much culture and diversity in the Bay Area,” says Tsi. “In Singapore, enjoying food together is a big unifier across all the different cultural groups there. People often underestimate the power of food—besides feeding and nurturing it can also to foster empathy. And food is a way to chip away at the public’s ignorance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsi combined the ideas of people sharing food, learning about immigrants and raising money for good causes. Each get-together features a different immigrant home chef and raise money for a cause of their choice. (This one raised $350 for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rescue.org\">The International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>.) Her idea seems to resonate in these unsettled times. The first event sold out in four days, which may partly be due to the fact that Thoa van Seventer is a beloved yoga instructor. Many of the 30 guests who gathered at her home in Palo Alto were her students and fellow yogis, including Danielle Tsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Thoa’s oldest sister left Viet Nam two years after the communists took over in 1975, she, her younger sisters and mother did not get out until ten years later. In the intervening years, her mother advised: “you better learn something” and arranged for her daughters to take cooking lessons. The guests at the Tapestry Supper lunch enjoyed the benefits of her mother’s forethought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dishes Thoa prepared were familiar, but the execution exquisite. They drew high praise from the other Vietnamese guests. The rice paper on the delicate shrimp rolls was perfectly tender, the filling held a surprise bite of fresh pineapple. The varied ingredients in the banh mi sandwich combined in harmony, and the crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for weddings, was sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoa confides that she is puzzled and saddened by a friend of hers, who is also Vietnamese, but has a completely different attitude to the refugees who are desperately trying to escape persecution right now. The friend states she doesn’t want them here in the U.S. “She says that we should just take care of ourselves and our country and keep everything we can,” Thoa reports. She is dumbstruck by this lack of empathy, knowing full well that the refugees are not coming by choice, but face a stark choice: leave or die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Hodges also has a story to share.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-768x547.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Hodges also has a story to share. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the guests, Anh Hodges, shared with her tablemates her own harrowing story of numerous thwarted attempts to escape Vietnam throughout her childhood. In 1978, four brothers and one sister in her family of 11 children did escape to avoid the Cambodian draft. But when Anh and her other sisters repeatedly tried to leave they were often caught, sometimes beaten, or sent to prison for several months. Her mother would pay money to men who were supposed to help them escape by boat, but took advantage of them and just kept their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family would not give up. After 13 failed attempts, in 1989, they finally made it out by plane. Sponsored by one of her older brothers, Anh stayed in Los Angeles for a year and then came up north. In Vietnam, she had been a high school teacher of English and math. She wanted to continue her studies, but there was no money for that. So she attended beauty school instead, became a hairstylist and eventually owned her own salon in San Jose for 20 years, with 20 employees. A friend at the table tells of Ahn’s contributions: donating the produce from her organic garden to a local school; her volunteering at the local hospital; and other good deeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg\" alt=\"The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-768x572.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1180x878.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-960x715.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-375x279.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-520x387.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The host of the next Tapestry Supper, April Chou, left Burma in 1977 at age 15, as an immigrant. She says, “when the military junta took over in 1962, no one had freedom, no one dared to speak up, as often relatives and friends ended up in jail. They shut down all private businesses and food was often rationed. Schools, especially universities, were shut down regularly due to student uprisings. Then came the massacre in 1988. Some of my old friends survived by living in the jungle. It’s sad to see Burma become one of the poorest countries with the lowest GDP despite its rich natural resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg\" alt=\"April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After many years working in high tech, Chou got more involved with Ashtanga yoga and Vipassana mediation, became vegan, switched gears and attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.baumancollege.org/\">Bauman College\u003c/a>’s Natural Chef training program. She is still finalizing the menu for April 23, and says she will probably make crudités and dips, tea leaf salad, coconut rice, and chicken/vegetable curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Tapestry Supper will be held in Sunnyvale on April 23. Tickets will be available for purchase starting Monday April 10 at 9am. Monthly dinners will follow through the summer, with different chefs. May's dinner will be an Iranian meal and Tsi is exploring possibility of featuring Tanzanian, Indian and Syrian cuisines. She does not yet have a website and advises that the best way to stay informed about future events is to sign up for her \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/cFMhND\">newsletter and mailing list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tsi states \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/2017/03/tapestry-suppers-immigrant-stories/\">on her blog\u003c/a> \"At a time of strong anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., our gatherings are the antidote to this zeitgeist by bringing people around the table to share a meal and learn about the multitude of cultures that make the Bay Area such a vibrant place to live. We believe that a society is made stronger by the diversity of its parts, and that the best way to learn about cultures foreign to us is through their cuisine.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A lovely garden party. Inviting platters of delicate shrimp rolls and crusty \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> sandwiches. Groups of people in lively conversations, getting to know each other. But there is another powerful thread running through this recent South Bay get-together, brought into focus as hostess Thoa van Seventer shares her story of leaving Vietnam and suddenly chokes up with emotion. When American troops pulled out of Vietnam in 1975, Thoa was 17 years old. Six years later, her father succumbed to despair and passed away. Thoa, her mother and sisters remained in Saigon under Viet Cong rule until 1985 when the former French Ambassador to Vietnam sponsored her family for French residency. But at that point, Thoa had a hard choice to make since she had just received a marriage proposal from a chief military officer's son in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg\" alt=\"Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-520x410.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice breaks as she explains to the assembled guests, “I told him ‘No, thank you’ because freedom is everything; freedom is more important than a broken heart. I made a hard choice to leave everything behind.” Thoa and her family had few possessions when they arrived in Paris in the freezing cold winter of 1985. “We came to France as beggars,” she says. “When we landed, we didn’t know if we would be welcome. But I felt like a child, who was lovingly adopted by the French people. They helped us a lot. I am so grateful to the country that adopted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see pictures of the refugees now,” she adds, “I feel respect for the refugees and for the people who help them.” And with that, Thoa serves a tray of flavorful crab and asparagus soup to her guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg\" alt=\"Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This moving encounter is from the first in a series of “Tapestry Suppers” organized by Danielle Tsi, a freelance photographer and owner of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/\">Beyond the Plate\u003c/a>. Her goal is to get people together to share their experiences and break down barriers by showcasing immigrant stories and cuisines. “I want to bring people together to connect offline, instead of just getting sucked into the digital black hole of news,” says Tsi, who emigrated from Singapore ten years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-768x614.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-960x768.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant myself who is not a citizen and can’t vote, what can I do? Give money to causes. But I want to do more. There is so much culture and diversity in the Bay Area,” says Tsi. “In Singapore, enjoying food together is a big unifier across all the different cultural groups there. People often underestimate the power of food—besides feeding and nurturing it can also to foster empathy. And food is a way to chip away at the public’s ignorance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsi combined the ideas of people sharing food, learning about immigrants and raising money for good causes. Each get-together features a different immigrant home chef and raise money for a cause of their choice. (This one raised $350 for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rescue.org\">The International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>.) Her idea seems to resonate in these unsettled times. The first event sold out in four days, which may partly be due to the fact that Thoa van Seventer is a beloved yoga instructor. Many of the 30 guests who gathered at her home in Palo Alto were her students and fellow yogis, including Danielle Tsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Thoa’s oldest sister left Viet Nam two years after the communists took over in 1975, she, her younger sisters and mother did not get out until ten years later. In the intervening years, her mother advised: “you better learn something” and arranged for her daughters to take cooking lessons. The guests at the Tapestry Supper lunch enjoyed the benefits of her mother’s forethought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dishes Thoa prepared were familiar, but the execution exquisite. They drew high praise from the other Vietnamese guests. The rice paper on the delicate shrimp rolls was perfectly tender, the filling held a surprise bite of fresh pineapple. The varied ingredients in the banh mi sandwich combined in harmony, and the crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for weddings, was sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoa confides that she is puzzled and saddened by a friend of hers, who is also Vietnamese, but has a completely different attitude to the refugees who are desperately trying to escape persecution right now. The friend states she doesn’t want them here in the U.S. “She says that we should just take care of ourselves and our country and keep everything we can,” Thoa reports. She is dumbstruck by this lack of empathy, knowing full well that the refugees are not coming by choice, but face a stark choice: leave or die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Hodges also has a story to share.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-768x547.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Hodges also has a story to share. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the guests, Anh Hodges, shared with her tablemates her own harrowing story of numerous thwarted attempts to escape Vietnam throughout her childhood. In 1978, four brothers and one sister in her family of 11 children did escape to avoid the Cambodian draft. But when Anh and her other sisters repeatedly tried to leave they were often caught, sometimes beaten, or sent to prison for several months. Her mother would pay money to men who were supposed to help them escape by boat, but took advantage of them and just kept their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family would not give up. After 13 failed attempts, in 1989, they finally made it out by plane. Sponsored by one of her older brothers, Anh stayed in Los Angeles for a year and then came up north. In Vietnam, she had been a high school teacher of English and math. She wanted to continue her studies, but there was no money for that. So she attended beauty school instead, became a hairstylist and eventually owned her own salon in San Jose for 20 years, with 20 employees. A friend at the table tells of Ahn’s contributions: donating the produce from her organic garden to a local school; her volunteering at the local hospital; and other good deeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg\" alt=\"The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-768x572.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1180x878.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-960x715.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-375x279.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-520x387.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The host of the next Tapestry Supper, April Chou, left Burma in 1977 at age 15, as an immigrant. She says, “when the military junta took over in 1962, no one had freedom, no one dared to speak up, as often relatives and friends ended up in jail. They shut down all private businesses and food was often rationed. Schools, especially universities, were shut down regularly due to student uprisings. Then came the massacre in 1988. Some of my old friends survived by living in the jungle. It’s sad to see Burma become one of the poorest countries with the lowest GDP despite its rich natural resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg\" alt=\"April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After many years working in high tech, Chou got more involved with Ashtanga yoga and Vipassana mediation, became vegan, switched gears and attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.baumancollege.org/\">Bauman College\u003c/a>’s Natural Chef training program. 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"content": "\u003cp>There is a new entry for two of San Francisco’s most competitive dining categories: outdoor patios and tacos. You’ll find it in SoMa at the corner of 4th and Bryant in the former Chavo’s — if you can dodge the backhoes and digging of the never-ending subway tunnel project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mestiza is still in its soft opening phase until April 11th. Yet, judging by the lunch rush surge of area start-up workers escaping the office, Mestiza is already hosting a regular audience of hungry, discerning diners. So much for practice time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch rush at Mestiza\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunch rush at Mestiza \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dress rehearsal or not, the tacos are clearly already noteworthy at this early stage as the fast casual restaurant has hit the ground running with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Filipino pork adobo as a perfect example of taking a beloved taco filling staple (carnitas), opening it to an abnormal group of partners (ginger salsa cruda and green papaya) and…watch out. The fork tender meat bursts with moisture, escaping from the tortilla shelter, dripping down your arm after one bite as if someone pushed a “go” button. It’s an electric taco moment. And, it wouldn’t be crazy for Mestiza to serve the pork adobo taco with a bib à la New England lobster feast. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino Pork Adobo (L) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino Pork Adobo (L) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same can be said for a riveting Thai red curry beef filling brightened by a pineapple arbol chile salsa and coconut flakes. Upon impact, boom, it’s a deliriously messy beef and curry-drenched delight that somehow manages to channel the most robust Thai beef curry into a compact taco package. At the end of the day, this is the next level of tacos well beyond the basic carne asada, carnitas, al pastor trio. We’re game to hop on this taco train that is indeed a little more expensive than most versions but exponentially more elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco.jpg\" alt=\"Thai Red Curry Beef taco\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thai Red Curry Beef taco \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of al pastor, possibly the most impressive taco filling is cumin and guajillo dusted rock cod that has nothing to do with al pastor flavor-wise other than the pineapple salsa, but, alas, what’s in a name? It’s the rare moist, flaky fish taco that isn’t fried nor slathered in crema. For $1 extra, it’s a very wise investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos.jpg\" alt=\"Pescado Al Pastor (R) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pescado Al Pastor (R) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khmer lemongrass chicken bathed in fish sauce sounds like an automatic winner, yet proves to be the one full-on miss. The diced poultry is tough and bland. This is chicken that reminds diners of chicken and why boneless, skinless chicken breast elicits so many eye rolls compared to carnitas or beef. It’s boring. The lemongrass doesn’t come through. That being said, the preparation is saved in taco form because of the abundant red chiles and peanuts garnish that cover up the chicken. Note to chefs: nuts and tacos are a strong tandem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza Bowl with Khmer Lemongrass Chicken.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza Bowl with Khmer Lemongrass Chicken. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/menu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The menu is customizable\u003c/a> like is so fashionable these days. Diners opt between six proteins (mushrooms and eggplants for the vegetarians) in four forms (taco, burrito, taco shell salad and rice and beans bowl. A pair of salads and a pair of raw seafood cocktails make up cold plate starters, while small plates include pork skewers, soy-saturated Filipino pork belly and sweet plantains. The small plates are called “Palutan,” Filipino for drinking food. Right now alcohol isn’t a main player but hopefully margaritas are in the future cards because the venue screams happy hour loudly. A few beers and wines are offered, along with a hibiscus agua fresca and a mandarin orange agua fresca. Both succeeded in being tart and balanced; not cloyingly sugary. Should you need sugar, dessert awaits with ice cream sandwiches with Mitchell’s Ice Cream or homemade horchata cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg\" alt=\"Hibiscus Agua Fresca.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hibiscus Agua Fresca. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What stands out so early in the game for Mestiza are the details on the plate, like a beautifully spice-nuanced julienned vegetable escabeche with the must-order empanadas with more of that pork adobo in a slick masa wrap that’s like a hybrid tamale-croissant dough. Or, evident in the full-throttle bursts of mint and cilantro that accompany a tangy lime and fish sauce vinaigrette for an under-the-radar shrimp and crispy noodle salad arriving the size of a small car tire. Maybe the greatest details are how the corn tortillas are freshly pressed and made with masa from Oakland’s renowned La Finca Tortilleria (if you’re curious about perfect dense and slightly griddled tortillas with real corn flavor, look no further). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg\" alt=\"Making fresh tortillas in the open kitchen at Mestiza\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making fresh tortillas in the open kitchen at Mestiza \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg\" alt=\"Adobo Empanadas julienned vegetable escabeche.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobo Empanadas with julienned vegetable escabeche. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg\" alt=\"The crispy Filipino pork inside the Adobo Empanadas.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crispy Filipino pork inside the Adobo Empanadas. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg\" alt=\"Crispy Noodle Shrimp Salad.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crispy Noodle Shrimp Salad. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fresh tortilla chips arriving as you sit with your order number boast just the right crispiness and aren’t distractingly greasy or salty. The partnering tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa have that right kick and depth they can be universally enjoyed by spice-seekers and the heat-averse. There is clearly a talented chef leading the kitchen. Details aren’t skipped even when the line is ten-deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh tortilla chips with tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa.jpg 5184w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh tortilla chips with tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, there is a mighty team running Mestiza. Deanna Sison Foster (Little Skillet, Farmerbrown) is the owner. The Cambodian-born former Chopped Grill Masters winner from TV and chef at Oakland’s Calavera, Sophina Uong, is the chef. Clearly, she’s a talent in real kitchens and reality TV kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we mentioned the tacos. Now to that patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor patio at Mestiza during lunchtime.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor patio at Mestiza during lunchtime. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The overall atmosphere evokes the Palm Springs-Austin, Texas desert garden vibe with a slight tropical edge that has become so hip, partly from the recent drought and partly because we all need a Caribbean vacation. Plants dangle from above contrasting with the exposed concrete ceiling, Mission-style arched walls separate the bar and kitchen from the dining area. Seating ranges from beer garden style benches to a pillow-decked banquette with oversize leaves as the design motif. Outside is a striking new floral mural by the artist Jet Martinez, a soon-to-be Instagram magnet. It’s the background for SF’s new go-to patio, complete with a cactus and reclaimed wood tables (speaking of obligatory trends). Inside or outside, everything is breezy and casual, not unlike how all the nearby SoMa start-ups like to operate their offices. The party is rounded out by a soundtrack ranging from blaring Iggy Azalea and CeeLo Green to the deafening jackhammers of the intersection’s construction. Mestiza will no doubt give LA’s perennially hip Salazar a run for its money in this desert good life design genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza interior with bar area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza interior with bar area. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s all surreal. And fun. Some diners are buried in their phones but most are festive and the servers equally upbeat, yet efficient. They’re quick to notice your table is low on salsa or napkins (a piece of advice: use larger napkins because the small-sized ones mean the table gets littered with them after each bite of taco). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the social media hashtags for the restaurant, #eatwithoutborders, along with the name’s meaning (mixed cultures or heritage) represent the time and place for Mestiza perfectly. There are obvious political meanings, too, but it really stands for the cuisine of this diverse restaurant, Mexico meets Southeast Asian street food with a little European and South American tossed around, completed within a California context. In brief: world-minded great food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tacos are clearly on the rise in SF thanks to creative newcomers like Glena’s and Tacorea. Now top-tier globe-spanning tacos have an ideal SoMa desert hideaway patio to be enjoyed in, a world away from the surrounding Bay Bridge traffic and industrial warehouses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza open kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116592\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza open kitchen. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mestizasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Mestiza Taqueria\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n595 Bryant St.\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94107 [\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mestiza+Taqueria/@37.7796243,-122.3977086,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf0e0dc831a8d9722!8m2!3d37.7796243!4d-122.3977086\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>MAP\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (415) 655-9187\u003cbr>\nHours: Currently 11am-2pm but starting April 11, 11am-10pm Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-4pm.\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mestizasf/\" target=\"_blank\">Mestiza Taqueria\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mestizasf\" target=\"_blank\">@mestizasf\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mestizasf/\" target=\"_blank\">mestizasf\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$ (Starters begin at $6 and single tacos are $4. Most dishes between $10-$13)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There is a new entry for two of San Francisco’s most competitive dining categories: outdoor patios and tacos. You’ll find it in SoMa at the corner of 4th and Bryant in the former Chavo’s — if you can dodge the backhoes and digging of the never-ending subway tunnel project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mestiza is still in its soft opening phase until April 11th. Yet, judging by the lunch rush surge of area start-up workers escaping the office, Mestiza is already hosting a regular audience of hungry, discerning diners. So much for practice time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch rush at Mestiza\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116590\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-people-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunch rush at Mestiza \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dress rehearsal or not, the tacos are clearly already noteworthy at this early stage as the fast casual restaurant has hit the ground running with gusto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Filipino pork adobo as a perfect example of taking a beloved taco filling staple (carnitas), opening it to an abnormal group of partners (ginger salsa cruda and green papaya) and…watch out. The fork tender meat bursts with moisture, escaping from the tortilla shelter, dripping down your arm after one bite as if someone pushed a “go” button. It’s an electric taco moment. And, it wouldn’t be crazy for Mestiza to serve the pork adobo taco with a bib à la New England lobster feast. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino Pork Adobo (L) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-chix-tacos-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino Pork Adobo (L) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same can be said for a riveting Thai red curry beef filling brightened by a pineapple arbol chile salsa and coconut flakes. Upon impact, boom, it’s a deliriously messy beef and curry-drenched delight that somehow manages to channel the most robust Thai beef curry into a compact taco package. At the end of the day, this is the next level of tacos well beyond the basic carne asada, carnitas, al pastor trio. We’re game to hop on this taco train that is indeed a little more expensive than most versions but exponentially more elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco.jpg\" alt=\"Thai Red Curry Beef taco\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-beef-taco-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thai Red Curry Beef taco \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of al pastor, possibly the most impressive taco filling is cumin and guajillo dusted rock cod that has nothing to do with al pastor flavor-wise other than the pineapple salsa, but, alas, what’s in a name? It’s the rare moist, flaky fish taco that isn’t fried nor slathered in crema. For $1 extra, it’s a very wise investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos.jpg\" alt=\"Pescado Al Pastor (R) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-fish-chix-tacos-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pescado Al Pastor (R) and Khmer Lemongrass Chicken tacos. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khmer lemongrass chicken bathed in fish sauce sounds like an automatic winner, yet proves to be the one full-on miss. The diced poultry is tough and bland. This is chicken that reminds diners of chicken and why boneless, skinless chicken breast elicits so many eye rolls compared to carnitas or beef. It’s boring. The lemongrass doesn’t come through. That being said, the preparation is saved in taco form because of the abundant red chiles and peanuts garnish that cover up the chicken. Note to chefs: nuts and tacos are a strong tandem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza Bowl with Khmer Lemongrass Chicken.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-bowl-chix-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza Bowl with Khmer Lemongrass Chicken. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/menu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The menu is customizable\u003c/a> like is so fashionable these days. Diners opt between six proteins (mushrooms and eggplants for the vegetarians) in four forms (taco, burrito, taco shell salad and rice and beans bowl. A pair of salads and a pair of raw seafood cocktails make up cold plate starters, while small plates include pork skewers, soy-saturated Filipino pork belly and sweet plantains. The small plates are called “Palutan,” Filipino for drinking food. Right now alcohol isn’t a main player but hopefully margaritas are in the future cards because the venue screams happy hour loudly. A few beers and wines are offered, along with a hibiscus agua fresca and a mandarin orange agua fresca. Both succeeded in being tart and balanced; not cloyingly sugary. Should you need sugar, dessert awaits with ice cream sandwiches with Mitchell’s Ice Cream or homemade horchata cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg\" alt=\"Hibiscus Agua Fresca.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/hibiscus-agua-fresca-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hibiscus Agua Fresca. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What stands out so early in the game for Mestiza are the details on the plate, like a beautifully spice-nuanced julienned vegetable escabeche with the must-order empanadas with more of that pork adobo in a slick masa wrap that’s like a hybrid tamale-croissant dough. Or, evident in the full-throttle bursts of mint and cilantro that accompany a tangy lime and fish sauce vinaigrette for an under-the-radar shrimp and crispy noodle salad arriving the size of a small car tire. Maybe the greatest details are how the corn tortillas are freshly pressed and made with masa from Oakland’s renowned La Finca Tortilleria (if you’re curious about perfect dense and slightly griddled tortillas with real corn flavor, look no further). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg\" alt=\"Making fresh tortillas in the open kitchen at Mestiza\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116603\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-tortilla-making-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making fresh tortillas in the open kitchen at Mestiza \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg\" alt=\"Adobo Empanadas julienned vegetable escabeche.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-empanadas-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobo Empanadas with julienned vegetable escabeche. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg\" alt=\"The crispy Filipino pork inside the Adobo Empanadas.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-pork-empanada-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crispy Filipino pork inside the Adobo Empanadas. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg\" alt=\"Crispy Noodle Shrimp Salad.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-shrimp-salad-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crispy Noodle Shrimp Salad. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fresh tortilla chips arriving as you sit with your order number boast just the right crispiness and aren’t distractingly greasy or salty. The partnering tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa have that right kick and depth they can be universally enjoyed by spice-seekers and the heat-averse. There is clearly a talented chef leading the kitchen. Details aren’t skipped even when the line is ten-deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh tortilla chips with tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa.jpg 5184w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/chips-salsa-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh tortilla chips with tomatillo-based salsa verde and robust guajillo salsa. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, there is a mighty team running Mestiza. Deanna Sison Foster (Little Skillet, Farmerbrown) is the owner. The Cambodian-born former Chopped Grill Masters winner from TV and chef at Oakland’s Calavera, Sophina Uong, is the chef. Clearly, she’s a talent in real kitchens and reality TV kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we mentioned the tacos. Now to that patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people.jpg\" alt=\"Outdoor patio at Mestiza during lunchtime.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-patio-people-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor patio at Mestiza during lunchtime. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The overall atmosphere evokes the Palm Springs-Austin, Texas desert garden vibe with a slight tropical edge that has become so hip, partly from the recent drought and partly because we all need a Caribbean vacation. Plants dangle from above contrasting with the exposed concrete ceiling, Mission-style arched walls separate the bar and kitchen from the dining area. Seating ranges from beer garden style benches to a pillow-decked banquette with oversize leaves as the design motif. Outside is a striking new floral mural by the artist Jet Martinez, a soon-to-be Instagram magnet. It’s the background for SF’s new go-to patio, complete with a cactus and reclaimed wood tables (speaking of obligatory trends). Inside or outside, everything is breezy and casual, not unlike how all the nearby SoMa start-ups like to operate their offices. The party is rounded out by a soundtrack ranging from blaring Iggy Azalea and CeeLo Green to the deafening jackhammers of the intersection’s construction. Mestiza will no doubt give LA’s perennially hip Salazar a run for its money in this desert good life design genre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza interior with bar area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-interior-bar-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza interior with bar area. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s all surreal. And fun. Some diners are buried in their phones but most are festive and the servers equally upbeat, yet efficient. They’re quick to notice your table is low on salsa or napkins (a piece of advice: use larger napkins because the small-sized ones mean the table gets littered with them after each bite of taco). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the social media hashtags for the restaurant, #eatwithoutborders, along with the name’s meaning (mixed cultures or heritage) represent the time and place for Mestiza perfectly. There are obvious political meanings, too, but it really stands for the cuisine of this diverse restaurant, Mexico meets Southeast Asian street food with a little European and South American tossed around, completed within a California context. In brief: world-minded great food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tacos are clearly on the rise in SF thanks to creative newcomers like Glena’s and Tacorea. Now top-tier globe-spanning tacos have an ideal SoMa desert hideaway patio to be enjoyed in, a world away from the surrounding Bay Bridge traffic and industrial warehouses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg\" alt=\"Mestiza open kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116592\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/mestiza-kitche-prep-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mestiza open kitchen. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last year, a group of women started meeting in San Francisco. It was an informal group, composed of women of color who worked in the San Francisco food world at places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tartine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-Rite\u003c/a>. They used the potlucks to swap stories and share advice. After the election, the mood darkened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all feeling different levels of grief, despondence, confusion, [and] frustration,” said Leslie Mah, one of the group’s organizers. During one of the meals, someone wondered what they could do to combat President Trump’s administration. “We started naming things, and it started coming together--ok, we actually have a lot here,” Mah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November galvanized the group, organizer Shakirah Simley said. It made them want to “come together as a community and build something that was sincere to our needs as women, as folks of color, as people who understand these pretty intense issues as [they] relate to class, race, gender, immigration, labor and the economy,” Simley said. “We see all those things as industry folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05.jpg\" alt=\"Nourish/Resist members at their first event in January.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nourish/Resist members at their first event in January. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group decided to formalize the group as a tool for political action, and dubbed themselves \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Nourish|Resist\u003c/a>. They came up with a slogan: “Hate won’t feed us.” And since then, the group has combined their skill sets--from baking to political organizing--to educate people about how to effectively fight Trump’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group takes a dual approach. Part of their work is internal, reminiscent of those early group dinners. It’s a safe space for women of color to discuss the mundanities and frustrations of their daily working lives. “When people think of resistance, they think of a protest. We like to think our existence is resistance,” Simley said. “In order to do that external organization, I like to say you have to take time to sharpen your saw before [you] can slice through wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their other work is external, a collection of events that facilitates direct political action. Many in the group have political and organizing backgrounds. Mah worked for \u003ca href=\"https://front.moveon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Move On\u003c/a> during the beginning of the Obama administration, and later worked as a paralegal for death row inmates before switching careers to work at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ritualroasters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ritual Coffee Roasters\u003c/a>, where she’s currently head roaster. Until recently, Simley was Bi-Rite’s \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2017/03/good-food-advocate-shakirah-simley-bids-bi-rite-farewell/\" target=\"_blank\">community program manager\u003c/a>, where she worked on community development projects like increasing the amount of healthy food at corner stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the group also emphasizes the importance that comes with the first part of their name, the power that comes with feeding people. “Breaking bread is an essential part of bringing people together that’s disarming,” said Simley. “Everyone eats. You can’t do this work unless you’re full. We want to make sure that [we’re] paying homage to what we’re really good at and what we know, which is food, beverage and hospitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited.jpg\" alt=\"Nourish|Resist's first event, "An Unpresidented Meal," combined political organizing and a delicious meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nourish|Resist's first event, \"An Unpresidented Meal,\" combined political organizing and a delicious meal. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/blog/2017/2/7/video-an-unprecedented-meal-on-january-19th-2017\" target=\"_blank\">An Unpresidented Meal,\u003c/a> the group’s first event, took place at Mission High the night before the inauguration. The group organized a meal--salad, turkey kofta--and instructed the high schoolers on how they could channel their frustrations. They made protest signs together, and talked about the rights people have when protesting. Don’t just stop there, the group urged, instructing them how to set up a citywide network of young activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/200338283?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t respect the power of youth,” Simley said. “Youth are not apathetic because they don’t care, youth are apathetic because they feel like people don’t care about them. The minute you give youth resources, or agency or ask them what they think, they can be really engaged. They told us at our resistance dinner, ‘we’re inheriting something you created.’ And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other events followed. Around Valentine’s Day, they provided chocolate and writing supplies for a “love letters to legislators” event, as well as tips for a useful letter (don’t just be angry, mention a specific bill or action you want them to support). The event yielded hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BQgI9IOgZJ2/?taken-by=nourishresist\" target=\"_blank\">colorful postcards\u003c/a> to local politicians. The goal, Mah said, is to show people exactly what actions they can take to create the most amount of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding:8px;\">\n\u003cdiv style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.97222222222222% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n\u003cdiv style=\" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BQgI9IOgZJ2/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Tonight we invite you to join us in the revolutionary act of #LoveLetterstoLegislators. And if you're making dinner for your sweetie, we'll see you next week, in #Oakland on 2/23. Have a #Valentines hug and a kiss from #NourishResist.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by Nourish | Resist (@nourishresist) on \u003ctime style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-02-14T18:32:30+00:00\">Feb 14, 2017 at 10:32am PST\u003c/time>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async defer src=\"//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, people want to do something, yet there’s a lack of understanding of how to do that,” Mah said. “We’d like to create a very tangible pathway of activation and participation that’s not just for the white majority who enjoy privilege, but also [for] very silenced majorities who have not been able to activate themselves for either fear, a sense of vulnerability, or a lack of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-116530 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the night's meal at An Unpresidented Meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the night's meal at An Unpresidented Meal. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their goal isn’t merely to motivate San Franciscans, who have a wealth of resources and like-minded cohorts available to them. Nourish|Resist puts their \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\">resources online\u003c/a>, so other groups throughout the country--who might be the Democratic minority in a red state--can easily create their own version of Nourish|Resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is currently planning more \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/events/\" target=\"_blank\">events\u003c/a>, including one this Friday about the \u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">role of race in the kitchen\u003c/a>. In the future, they hope to connect with more women, and encourage people to participate in local and state elections. They also have loftier goals. They want to, “foster personal and food security for our community,” and “create coalitions across our similarly-minded movements, people, and organizations.” It’ll be a slow journey, requiring an excess of time and money from workers in an industry that thrives on little of both. But Mah and Simley are excited for the future, excited to use their passion for local, sustainable food to challenge the new political reality, and show others that food is far from apolitical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We use food as a tool for our resistance,” said Simley. “Sometimes when we think about the food system, people are like ‘yeah, we want a more just food system.’ We want a more just people system. And we use food to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last year, a group of women started meeting in San Francisco. It was an informal group, composed of women of color who worked in the San Francisco food world at places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tartine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-Rite\u003c/a>. They used the potlucks to swap stories and share advice. After the election, the mood darkened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all feeling different levels of grief, despondence, confusion, [and] frustration,” said Leslie Mah, one of the group’s organizers. During one of the meals, someone wondered what they could do to combat President Trump’s administration. “We started naming things, and it started coming together--ok, we actually have a lot here,” Mah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November galvanized the group, organizer Shakirah Simley said. It made them want to “come together as a community and build something that was sincere to our needs as women, as folks of color, as people who understand these pretty intense issues as [they] relate to class, race, gender, immigration, labor and the economy,” Simley said. “We see all those things as industry folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05.jpg\" alt=\"Nourish/Resist members at their first event in January.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_05-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nourish/Resist members at their first event in January. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group decided to formalize the group as a tool for political action, and dubbed themselves \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Nourish|Resist\u003c/a>. They came up with a slogan: “Hate won’t feed us.” And since then, the group has combined their skill sets--from baking to political organizing--to educate people about how to effectively fight Trump’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group takes a dual approach. Part of their work is internal, reminiscent of those early group dinners. It’s a safe space for women of color to discuss the mundanities and frustrations of their daily working lives. “When people think of resistance, they think of a protest. We like to think our existence is resistance,” Simley said. “In order to do that external organization, I like to say you have to take time to sharpen your saw before [you] can slice through wood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their other work is external, a collection of events that facilitates direct political action. Many in the group have political and organizing backgrounds. Mah worked for \u003ca href=\"https://front.moveon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Move On\u003c/a> during the beginning of the Obama administration, and later worked as a paralegal for death row inmates before switching careers to work at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ritualroasters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ritual Coffee Roasters\u003c/a>, where she’s currently head roaster. Until recently, Simley was Bi-Rite’s \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2017/03/good-food-advocate-shakirah-simley-bids-bi-rite-farewell/\" target=\"_blank\">community program manager\u003c/a>, where she worked on community development projects like increasing the amount of healthy food at corner stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the group also emphasizes the importance that comes with the first part of their name, the power that comes with feeding people. “Breaking bread is an essential part of bringing people together that’s disarming,” said Simley. “Everyone eats. You can’t do this work unless you’re full. We want to make sure that [we’re] paying homage to what we’re really good at and what we know, which is food, beverage and hospitality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited.jpg\" alt=\"Nourish|Resist's first event, "An Unpresidented Meal," combined political organizing and a delicious meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/edited-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nourish|Resist's first event, \"An Unpresidented Meal,\" combined political organizing and a delicious meal. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/blog/2017/2/7/video-an-unprecedented-meal-on-january-19th-2017\" target=\"_blank\">An Unpresidented Meal,\u003c/a> the group’s first event, took place at Mission High the night before the inauguration. The group organized a meal--salad, turkey kofta--and instructed the high schoolers on how they could channel their frustrations. They made protest signs together, and talked about the rights people have when protesting. Don’t just stop there, the group urged, instructing them how to set up a citywide network of young activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/200338283?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t respect the power of youth,” Simley said. “Youth are not apathetic because they don’t care, youth are apathetic because they feel like people don’t care about them. The minute you give youth resources, or agency or ask them what they think, they can be really engaged. They told us at our resistance dinner, ‘we’re inheriting something you created.’ And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other events followed. Around Valentine’s Day, they provided chocolate and writing supplies for a “love letters to legislators” event, as well as tips for a useful letter (don’t just be angry, mention a specific bill or action you want them to support). The event yielded hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BQgI9IOgZJ2/?taken-by=nourishresist\" target=\"_blank\">colorful postcards\u003c/a> to local politicians. The goal, Mah said, is to show people exactly what actions they can take to create the most amount of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding:8px;\">\n\u003cdiv style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.97222222222222% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n\u003cdiv style=\" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BQgI9IOgZJ2/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Tonight we invite you to join us in the revolutionary act of #LoveLetterstoLegislators. And if you're making dinner for your sweetie, we'll see you next week, in #Oakland on 2/23. Have a #Valentines hug and a kiss from #NourishResist.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by Nourish | Resist (@nourishresist) on \u003ctime style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2017-02-14T18:32:30+00:00\">Feb 14, 2017 at 10:32am PST\u003c/time>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async defer src=\"//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, people want to do something, yet there’s a lack of understanding of how to do that,” Mah said. “We’d like to create a very tangible pathway of activation and participation that’s not just for the white majority who enjoy privilege, but also [for] very silenced majorities who have not been able to activate themselves for either fear, a sense of vulnerability, or a lack of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-116530 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the night's meal at An Unpresidented Meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/NourishResistRD_03edited-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the night's meal at An Unpresidented Meal. \u003ccite>(Sana Javeri Kadri)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their goal isn’t merely to motivate San Franciscans, who have a wealth of resources and like-minded cohorts available to them. Nourish|Resist puts their \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\">resources online\u003c/a>, so other groups throughout the country--who might be the Democratic minority in a red state--can easily create their own version of Nourish|Resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is currently planning more \u003ca href=\"https://nourishresist.org/events/\" target=\"_blank\">events\u003c/a>, including one this Friday about the \u003ca href=\"http://voicesfromthekitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">role of race in the kitchen\u003c/a>. In the future, they hope to connect with more women, and encourage people to participate in local and state elections. They also have loftier goals. They want to, “foster personal and food security for our community,” and “create coalitions across our similarly-minded movements, people, and organizations.” It’ll be a slow journey, requiring an excess of time and money from workers in an industry that thrives on little of both. But Mah and Simley are excited for the future, excited to use their passion for local, sustainable food to challenge the new political reality, and show others that food is far from apolitical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Farid Rafaty cooked Afghan food at the Oakland Bloom Night Market with his cousin Mina.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1666\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-160x139.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-800x694.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-768x666.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-1020x885.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-1180x1024.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-960x833.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-240x208.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-375x325.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farid Rafaty cooked Afghan food at the Oakland Bloom Night Market with his friend Shahnaz. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farid Rafaty dreams of opening a restaurant where he will cook dishes from his native Afghanistan. One of these would be the luscious \u003cem>mantu\u003c/em> dumplings he recently made for a pop-up dinner sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, an organization that wants to help him in his quest. It’s been a long journey. At age 14, Rafaty was walking home after getting a haircut when he was forcibly drafted by the pro-communist government as a soldier to fight against the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen\" target=\"_blank\">Mujahideen\u003c/a> and taken by helicopter to their army base. After spending three weeks trying to operate an anti-aircraft missile launcher, the determined young man escaped from the base and fled his country by walking all the way to Pakistan, where he eventually met up with his parents and eight siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Farid's mantu (beef dumpling) topped with tomato and yogurt sauces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-768x882.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-1020x1171.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-960x1102.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-240x276.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-375x430.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-520x597.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farid's mantu (beef dumpling) topped with tomato and yogurt sauces. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After several years living in France, Rafaty moved to Southern California, and ironically, got his wish to cook authentic Afghan food -- for the U.S. Marine Corps training site in Twentynine Palms. The army had built a completely realistic Afghan town in the middle of the Mojave desert to train Marines before they were deployed to Afghanistan. “It had to be 100% accurate, from the shops to the colors of the clothing to the food,” explains Rafaty. “I was head of kitchen and cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner for 220 Afghan ‘actors’ and 40 Special Forces soldiers.” Sometimes Rafaty was also assigned to act a role, such as head of the Secret Service, in exercises where American soldiers were tasked with finding “the bad guys.” The results were impressive. After a month living in the simulated Afghan village, the soldiers were ready. “I received many commendations, and the soldiers expressed their gratitude for preparing them so well, which was crucial to their survival,” says Rafaty. “Now, I want to give back to this wonderful country.” With Oakland Bloom’s help, Rafaty hopes to start a catering business and work his way up to a café where he can make real connections with his customers. “I want a place,“ he says, “where we all know each other’s families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Seanathan Chow, founder of Oakland Bloom, at March 12 Night Market Pop-up Dinner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seanathan Chow, founder of Oakland Bloom, at March 12 Night Market Pop-up Dinner. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all the refugees that Oakland Bloom mentors have as much food service experience as Farid Rafaty. Indeed, some have none at all. But the most important quality that Oakland Bloom founder Seanathan Chow looks for when choosing people for the training program is a love of cooking. After several years working to foster social entrepreneurialism as a start-up consultant and volunteering in a variety of non-profits, Chow switched gears to attend culinary school and then cook at Hawker Fare and Nopalito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His “aha moment” came when he realized he could pair food and social impact to create economic opportunities for refugees and immigrants looking to start their own businesses. He founded Oakland Bloom in 2015. Now, he and his team run an intense two-week training program where refugees receive instruction in running a food business, operating a commercial kitchen, marketing, and testing recipes, all leading up to the Night Market, where they cook and serve their dishes to more than 100 guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These pop-up dinners, held monthly in the basement dining room of \u003ca href=\"https://www.choicehotels.com/california/oakland/clarion-hotels/cab03?source=gyxt\">Oakland’s Clarion Hotel\u003c/a>, give the emerging chefs an opportunity to handle a steady stream of customers and engage in conversation with them. Chow is still refining the structure and learning from each event. At the second dinner on March 12, he was dismayed to find that by the time the last two ticketed customers appeared, a couple of the chefs had run out of food. “It was a learning experience for us all,” says Chow, “I want to improve these events each time and use them as a testing ground for a permanent space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/tickets/\">next pop-up dinner on April 9\u003c/a> will feature timed seatings to more evenly distribute diners. Besides allowing the chefs to practice feeding people at these events, Chow’s vision also includes encouraging conversations about culture and inspiring guests to volunteer their skills (say in marketing or graphic design) to help these budding entrepreneurs succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Tebege's spicy chicken and red lentils accompanied by her unique Eritrean flatbread.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-160x75.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-800x377.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-768x362.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-1020x480.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-1180x556.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-960x452.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-240x113.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-375x177.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-520x245.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Tebege's spicy chicken and red lentils accompanied by her unique Eritrean flatbread. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The youngest chef in the March 12 Night Market line-up was 23-year old Sara Tebege, who served home-style Eritrean foods atop discs of a dark flatbread. But this flatbread was not \u003cem>injera\u003c/em> which is the large spongy crepe-like circles made primarily of teff flour that is a staple in Ethiopian and Eritrean meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tebege featured a unique twist on another traditional flatbread that she calls \u003cem>anababiru\u003c/em>, which is usually served in layers. Her dish featured smaller rounds upon which she spread \u003cem>awaze\u003c/em> (spiced butter) and piled her \u003cem>doro tibs\u003c/em> (spicy chicken) and \u003cem>misr wot\u003c/em> (red lentil stew). She explained the significance of this “bread” to some of her customers, explaining that since it has a shorter rising time than injera, it was made every morning in her household and marked the start of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tebege is Eritrean. Since coming to the U.S. she has been working hard to improve herself and start a new life. When she connected with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a> (IRC) in 2014, she met Seanathan Chow who was then a volunteer. In 2015, Sara participated in Oakland Bloom’s food business training program (then in partnership with IRC’s New Roots Program), where participants were introduced to basic business concepts and various types of food businesses through guest lectures, field trips, and workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the IRC, Tebege also met Doug Hewitt and recently completed the training program for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/02/14/refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company/\">1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>. Although she hopes to start working at the café, quickly whipping up lattes for Berkeleyites on the go, her ultimate wish is to have her own café where she can offer the slower-paced, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/07/traditional-ethiopian-coffee-ceremony-brewed-up-by-chef-marcus-samuelsson-and-cafe-colucci/\">traditional Ethiopian/Eritrean coffee ritual\u003c/a> that involves roasting the beans, grinding them, mixing the ground beans with water, then boiling and serving three rounds of coffee with snacks like popped sorghum. The daily ritual emphasizes slowing down and encourages participants to really talk to each other. Through her time with Oakland Bloom, Tebege came up with a name for her café: Mahaza, which means “friend” in Tigrinya, her native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Seanathan Chow's refreshing take on a Burmese tamarind ginger soda.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-160x133.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-800x666.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-768x639.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-1020x849.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-1180x982.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-960x799.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-240x200.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-375x312.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-520x433.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seanathan Chow's refreshing take on a Burmese tamarind ginger soda. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At his recent pop-up dinner, Seanathan Chow contributed his own Burmese-inspired tamarind ginger soda. He explains that his motivation for establishing Oakland Bloom was personal: “My parents were immigrants from Burma, where my mom grew up in poverty. My uncle hid on a boat to get here, with only $10 in his pocket. I grew up hearing stories about what it took for my family to come here, and even more so how difficult it was upon arriving. Now my mom and uncle are both successful entrepreneurs,\" says Chow. \"They sacrificed a lot, but they’re proof that anything is possible with a little help from the community and loved ones. It’s heartbreaking when I meet immigrants who feel like owning a business is simply out of their reach. I want my participants to know that Oakland Bloom will support them for the long haul. We’re in this together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow’s ultimate goal is to open Oakland’s first \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebestsingapore.com/eat-and-drink/the-best-5-hawker-centres-in-singapore/\">Hawker Center\u003c/a> inspired by the food courts for which Singapore is famous. He needs a warehouse or other covered space that would be big enough for each entrepreneur to have his/her own stall. After a pilot program, he hopes to make this a permanent fixture in Oakland. Another part of Chow’s plan is to enlist the help of guest chefs. The Hawker center would have stalls for refugees and immigrants plus Oakland's up-and-coming chefs, who could provide one-on-one mentorships. “What we really need, “ says Chow, “is for everyone to feel invested in the success of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Orn Sok and Sambath Ky are refugees from Cambodia, who have been been working at a small cafe in Oakland making American food for years. They want to cook Cambodian dishes, like this chicken stuffed with lemon grass, pork and tamarind and papaya glass noodle salad. They will also be cooking at the April 9th event.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-768x588.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orn Sok and Sambath Ky are refugees from Cambodia, who have been been working at a small cafe in Oakland making American food for years. They want to cook Cambodian dishes, like this chicken stuffed with lemon grass, pork and tamarind and papaya glass noodle salad. They will also be cooking at the April 9th event. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">\u003cstrong>Oakland Bloom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/tickets/\">Purchase tickets \u003c/a>for the next Pop-Up Night Market on April 9 at the Clarion Hotel\u003cbr>\n371 13\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Clarion+Hotel+Downtown+Oakland+City+Center/@37.8027602,-122.272227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808f80b413425549:0xb07d41caf46aa28!8m2!3d37.802756!4d-122.270033\">[Map]\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/oakbloomkitchen/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Check \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom’s website\u003c/a> for upcoming crowd-funding projects.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116392\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Farid Rafaty cooked Afghan food at the Oakland Bloom Night Market with his cousin Mina.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1666\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-160x139.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-800x694.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-768x666.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-1020x885.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-1180x1024.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-960x833.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-240x208.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-375x325.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/1-Farid-and-Mina-NEW-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farid Rafaty cooked Afghan food at the Oakland Bloom Night Market with his friend Shahnaz. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farid Rafaty dreams of opening a restaurant where he will cook dishes from his native Afghanistan. One of these would be the luscious \u003cem>mantu\u003c/em> dumplings he recently made for a pop-up dinner sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>, an organization that wants to help him in his quest. It’s been a long journey. At age 14, Rafaty was walking home after getting a haircut when he was forcibly drafted by the pro-communist government as a soldier to fight against the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen\" target=\"_blank\">Mujahideen\u003c/a> and taken by helicopter to their army base. After spending three weeks trying to operate an anti-aircraft missile launcher, the determined young man escaped from the base and fled his country by walking all the way to Pakistan, where he eventually met up with his parents and eight siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Farid's mantu (beef dumpling) topped with tomato and yogurt sauces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-768x882.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-1020x1171.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-1180x1355.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-960x1102.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-240x276.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-375x430.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/2-Mantu-dumpling-NEW-520x597.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farid's mantu (beef dumpling) topped with tomato and yogurt sauces. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After several years living in France, Rafaty moved to Southern California, and ironically, got his wish to cook authentic Afghan food -- for the U.S. Marine Corps training site in Twentynine Palms. The army had built a completely realistic Afghan town in the middle of the Mojave desert to train Marines before they were deployed to Afghanistan. “It had to be 100% accurate, from the shops to the colors of the clothing to the food,” explains Rafaty. “I was head of kitchen and cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner for 220 Afghan ‘actors’ and 40 Special Forces soldiers.” Sometimes Rafaty was also assigned to act a role, such as head of the Secret Service, in exercises where American soldiers were tasked with finding “the bad guys.” The results were impressive. After a month living in the simulated Afghan village, the soldiers were ready. “I received many commendations, and the soldiers expressed their gratitude for preparing them so well, which was crucial to their survival,” says Rafaty. “Now, I want to give back to this wonderful country.” With Oakland Bloom’s help, Rafaty hopes to start a catering business and work his way up to a café where he can make real connections with his customers. “I want a place,“ he says, “where we all know each other’s families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Seanathan Chow, founder of Oakland Bloom, at March 12 Night Market Pop-up Dinner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/3-Seanathan-Chow-NEW-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seanathan Chow, founder of Oakland Bloom, at March 12 Night Market Pop-up Dinner. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all the refugees that Oakland Bloom mentors have as much food service experience as Farid Rafaty. Indeed, some have none at all. But the most important quality that Oakland Bloom founder Seanathan Chow looks for when choosing people for the training program is a love of cooking. After several years working to foster social entrepreneurialism as a start-up consultant and volunteering in a variety of non-profits, Chow switched gears to attend culinary school and then cook at Hawker Fare and Nopalito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His “aha moment” came when he realized he could pair food and social impact to create economic opportunities for refugees and immigrants looking to start their own businesses. He founded Oakland Bloom in 2015. Now, he and his team run an intense two-week training program where refugees receive instruction in running a food business, operating a commercial kitchen, marketing, and testing recipes, all leading up to the Night Market, where they cook and serve their dishes to more than 100 guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These pop-up dinners, held monthly in the basement dining room of \u003ca href=\"https://www.choicehotels.com/california/oakland/clarion-hotels/cab03?source=gyxt\">Oakland’s Clarion Hotel\u003c/a>, give the emerging chefs an opportunity to handle a steady stream of customers and engage in conversation with them. Chow is still refining the structure and learning from each event. At the second dinner on March 12, he was dismayed to find that by the time the last two ticketed customers appeared, a couple of the chefs had run out of food. “It was a learning experience for us all,” says Chow, “I want to improve these events each time and use them as a testing ground for a permanent space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/tickets/\">next pop-up dinner on April 9\u003c/a> will feature timed seatings to more evenly distribute diners. Besides allowing the chefs to practice feeding people at these events, Chow’s vision also includes encouraging conversations about culture and inspiring guests to volunteer their skills (say in marketing or graphic design) to help these budding entrepreneurs succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Tebege's spicy chicken and red lentils accompanied by her unique Eritrean flatbread.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-160x75.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-800x377.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-768x362.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-1020x480.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-1180x556.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-960x452.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-240x113.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-375x177.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/4-Sara-Tebege-revised-520x245.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Tebege's spicy chicken and red lentils accompanied by her unique Eritrean flatbread. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The youngest chef in the March 12 Night Market line-up was 23-year old Sara Tebege, who served home-style Eritrean foods atop discs of a dark flatbread. But this flatbread was not \u003cem>injera\u003c/em> which is the large spongy crepe-like circles made primarily of teff flour that is a staple in Ethiopian and Eritrean meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tebege featured a unique twist on another traditional flatbread that she calls \u003cem>anababiru\u003c/em>, which is usually served in layers. Her dish featured smaller rounds upon which she spread \u003cem>awaze\u003c/em> (spiced butter) and piled her \u003cem>doro tibs\u003c/em> (spicy chicken) and \u003cem>misr wot\u003c/em> (red lentil stew). She explained the significance of this “bread” to some of her customers, explaining that since it has a shorter rising time than injera, it was made every morning in her household and marked the start of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tebege is Eritrean. Since coming to the U.S. she has been working hard to improve herself and start a new life. When she connected with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/\">International Rescue Committee \u003c/a> (IRC) in 2014, she met Seanathan Chow who was then a volunteer. In 2015, Sara participated in Oakland Bloom’s food business training program (then in partnership with IRC’s New Roots Program), where participants were introduced to basic business concepts and various types of food businesses through guest lectures, field trips, and workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the IRC, Tebege also met Doug Hewitt and recently completed the training program for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/02/14/refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company/\">1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>. Although she hopes to start working at the café, quickly whipping up lattes for Berkeleyites on the go, her ultimate wish is to have her own café where she can offer the slower-paced, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/07/traditional-ethiopian-coffee-ceremony-brewed-up-by-chef-marcus-samuelsson-and-cafe-colucci/\">traditional Ethiopian/Eritrean coffee ritual\u003c/a> that involves roasting the beans, grinding them, mixing the ground beans with water, then boiling and serving three rounds of coffee with snacks like popped sorghum. The daily ritual emphasizes slowing down and encourages participants to really talk to each other. Through her time with Oakland Bloom, Tebege came up with a name for her café: Mahaza, which means “friend” in Tigrinya, her native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Seanathan Chow's refreshing take on a Burmese tamarind ginger soda.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-160x133.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-800x666.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-768x639.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-1020x849.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-1180x982.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-960x799.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-240x200.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-375x312.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/5-Soda-NEW-520x433.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seanathan Chow's refreshing take on a Burmese tamarind ginger soda. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At his recent pop-up dinner, Seanathan Chow contributed his own Burmese-inspired tamarind ginger soda. He explains that his motivation for establishing Oakland Bloom was personal: “My parents were immigrants from Burma, where my mom grew up in poverty. My uncle hid on a boat to get here, with only $10 in his pocket. I grew up hearing stories about what it took for my family to come here, and even more so how difficult it was upon arriving. Now my mom and uncle are both successful entrepreneurs,\" says Chow. \"They sacrificed a lot, but they’re proof that anything is possible with a little help from the community and loved ones. It’s heartbreaking when I meet immigrants who feel like owning a business is simply out of their reach. I want my participants to know that Oakland Bloom will support them for the long haul. We’re in this together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow’s ultimate goal is to open Oakland’s first \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebestsingapore.com/eat-and-drink/the-best-5-hawker-centres-in-singapore/\">Hawker Center\u003c/a> inspired by the food courts for which Singapore is famous. He needs a warehouse or other covered space that would be big enough for each entrepreneur to have his/her own stall. After a pilot program, he hopes to make this a permanent fixture in Oakland. Another part of Chow’s plan is to enlist the help of guest chefs. The Hawker center would have stalls for refugees and immigrants plus Oakland's up-and-coming chefs, who could provide one-on-one mentorships. “What we really need, “ says Chow, “is for everyone to feel invested in the success of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Orn Sok and Sambath Ky are refugees from Cambodia, who have been been working at a small cafe in Oakland making American food for years. They want to cook Cambodian dishes, like this chicken stuffed with lemon grass, pork and tamarind and papaya glass noodle salad. They will also be cooking at the April 9th event.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-768x588.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/6-Orn-and-Sambath-NEW-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orn Sok and Sambath Ky are refugees from Cambodia, who have been been working at a small cafe in Oakland making American food for years. They want to cook Cambodian dishes, like this chicken stuffed with lemon grass, pork and tamarind and papaya glass noodle salad. They will also be cooking at the April 9th event. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">\u003cstrong>Oakland Bloom\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/tickets/\">Purchase tickets \u003c/a>for the next Pop-Up Night Market on April 9 at the Clarion Hotel\u003cbr>\n371 13\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Street \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Clarion+Hotel+Downtown+Oakland+City+Center/@37.8027602,-122.272227,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808f80b413425549:0xb07d41caf46aa28!8m2!3d37.802756!4d-122.270033\">[Map]\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94612\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/oakbloomkitchen/\">Oakland Bloom\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Check \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandbloom.org/\">Oakland Bloom’s website\u003c/a> for upcoming crowd-funding projects.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For many years, the Claremont Diner, just over the Berkeley border into Oakland at the intersection of Claremont and College Avenues, was a friendly bastion of BLTs on white bread, iceberg-lettuce salads and massive breakfast omelets. The owners of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ding-japanese-restaurant-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Ding Japanese Restaurant\u003c/a>, which opened without fanfare in the space last week after a big remodeling job, have transformed the dining room from white-walled brightness to sleek-wood coolness, earth-toned warmth, and all-around welcoming appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2.jpg\" alt=\"Ding Japanese Restaurant interior.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ding Japanese Restaurant interior. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a couple of other Japanese restaurants within walking distance, but they don’t have the energy of this place, right out of the gate. We went for lunch and whittled down the menu choices to just a few: a daily special appetizer, two combination lunches and a bowl of ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter.jpg\" alt=\"The sushi bar at Ding.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sushi bar at Ding. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a few important details that make this place stand out from the pack of Easy Bay Japanese spots, the first of which is the shiro on each table. Shiro is a soy sauce brewed with more wheat than soybeans, sweeter and more delicate than soy-centric sauces, usually reserved for sashimi. Here, it’s a harbinger of the kitchen’s predilection toward subtlety, in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This subtle approach to cooking is exemplified by the ramen, toothsome noodles in a miso-pork broth, seasoned simply with pepper, deeply sweet, and laden with grilled chicken, mushrooms, hardboiled egg, corn, cilantro and a surprising note of chopped cashews, which further deepens the sweetness of the whole. Our server brought togarishi, a spice mix with a hint of chili pepper, on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1.jpg\" alt=\"Yokor haima ramen with grilled chicken and vegetables.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yokor haima ramen with grilled chicken and vegetables. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We couldn’t resist one daily appetizer special of amaebi, raw shrimp served with the fried heads on the side. At Ding, this classic dish is slowly and carefully prepared, the raw flesh cool and crisp and the heads lightly fried and tender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi.jpg\" alt=\"Amaebi, raw shrimp sushi.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-amaebi-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amaebi, raw shrimp sushi. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The raw fish dishes, in all their glory, were the highlight of the meal. We tried two lunch specials, both excellent values in a neighborhood where a noodle lunch will set you back $15, on average. The sushi/sashimi combo at $12.50 is a bargain anywhere in the Bay Area, and the quality of this fish selection is much higher than average in these parts, where quality can be variable and inconsistent. It came with four pieces of nigiri (the menu said five, but who’s counting?), large, but gracefully cut: tuna, shrimp, waru (Hawaiian whitefish) with tobiko, and salmon. Two big slices each of tuna and salmon sashimi were perched at the end of the long, narrow serving plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi from the Sushi Sashimi Combination lunch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sushi from the sushi-sashimi combination lunch. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi.jpg\" alt=\"Sashimi from the Sushi Sashimi Combination lunch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sashimi-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sashimi from the Sushi-sashimi combination lunch. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The combination lunch special comes with your choice of two dishes: one cooked entrée and one sushi roll or cooked appetizer. For $4, we added four slices of hamachi (yellowtail), so, for a grand total of $14.50, we got an ample serving of chicken teriyaki, a spicy tuna roll, and some of the most buttery hamachi around. The teriyaki, like the ramen, was subtly complex, with juicy-tender meat and a not-too-sweet sauce. The spicy tuna roll was of the minced variety, with mild heat. And there was a nice side salad with spicy miso dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1.jpg\" alt=\" Chicken teriyaki lunch special.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken teriyaki lunch special. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1.jpg\" alt=\"Hamachi (Yellowtail) sashimi. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a menu that has all the predictable dishes you’d expect to find in a neighborhood Japanese restaurant, Ding offers some artful complexity and sophistication to sauces and stocks—and, most importantly, beautifully sourced and prepared raw fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Ding Japanese Restaurant in Oakland's Rockridge \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ding Japanese Restaurant in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ding-japanese-restaurant-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Ding Japanese Cuisine\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n6200 Claremont Ave.\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94618 [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/nXhQ47\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 879-7725\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Thu 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-9pm; Fri-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm; Sunday 5pm-9pm; Closed Monday\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $-$$$ ($10-$15, lunch specials; $16-$20, dinner entrées)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For many years, the Claremont Diner, just over the Berkeley border into Oakland at the intersection of Claremont and College Avenues, was a friendly bastion of BLTs on white bread, iceberg-lettuce salads and massive breakfast omelets. The owners of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ding-japanese-restaurant-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">Ding Japanese Restaurant\u003c/a>, which opened without fanfare in the space last week after a big remodeling job, have transformed the dining room from white-walled brightness to sleek-wood coolness, earth-toned warmth, and all-around welcoming appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2.jpg\" alt=\"Ding Japanese Restaurant interior.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-interior2-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ding Japanese Restaurant interior. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a couple of other Japanese restaurants within walking distance, but they don’t have the energy of this place, right out of the gate. We went for lunch and whittled down the menu choices to just a few: a daily special appetizer, two combination lunches and a bowl of ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter.jpg\" alt=\"The sushi bar at Ding.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-sushi-counter-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sushi bar at Ding. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a few important details that make this place stand out from the pack of Easy Bay Japanese spots, the first of which is the shiro on each table. Shiro is a soy sauce brewed with more wheat than soybeans, sweeter and more delicate than soy-centric sauces, usually reserved for sashimi. Here, it’s a harbinger of the kitchen’s predilection toward subtlety, in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This subtle approach to cooking is exemplified by the ramen, toothsome noodles in a miso-pork broth, seasoned simply with pepper, deeply sweet, and laden with grilled chicken, mushrooms, hardboiled egg, corn, cilantro and a surprising note of chopped cashews, which further deepens the sweetness of the whole. Our server brought togarishi, a spice mix with a hint of chili pepper, on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1.jpg\" alt=\"Yokor haima ramen with grilled chicken and vegetables.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-ramen1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yokor haima ramen with grilled chicken and vegetables. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We couldn’t resist one daily appetizer special of amaebi, raw shrimp served with the fried heads on the side. 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We tried two lunch specials, both excellent values in a neighborhood where a noodle lunch will set you back $15, on average. The sushi/sashimi combo at $12.50 is a bargain anywhere in the Bay Area, and the quality of this fish selection is much higher than average in these parts, where quality can be variable and inconsistent. It came with four pieces of nigiri (the menu said five, but who’s counting?), large, but gracefully cut: tuna, shrimp, waru (Hawaiian whitefish) with tobiko, and salmon. 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For $4, we added four slices of hamachi (yellowtail), so, for a grand total of $14.50, we got an ample serving of chicken teriyaki, a spicy tuna roll, and some of the most buttery hamachi around. The teriyaki, like the ramen, was subtly complex, with juicy-tender meat and a not-too-sweet sauce. The spicy tuna roll was of the minced variety, with mild heat. And there was a nice side salad with spicy miso dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1.jpg\" alt=\" Chicken teriyaki lunch special.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-chix-teriyaki1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken teriyaki lunch special. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1.jpg\" alt=\"Hamachi (Yellowtail) sashimi. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-hamachi1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamachi (yellowtail) sashimi. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a menu that has all the predictable dishes you’d expect to find in a neighborhood Japanese restaurant, Ding offers some artful complexity and sophistication to sauces and stocks—and, most importantly, beautifully sourced and prepared raw fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Ding Japanese Restaurant in Oakland's Rockridge \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/ding-exterior-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ding Japanese Restaurant in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ding-japanese-restaurant-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Ding Japanese Cuisine\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n6200 Claremont Ave.\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94618 [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/nXhQ47\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 879-7725\u003cbr>\nHours: Tue-Thu 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-9pm; Fri-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm; Sunday 5pm-9pm; Closed Monday\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $-$$$ ($10-$15, lunch specials; $16-$20, dinner entrées)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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