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It’s been about two years, but the above Fresh Choice amplitude on Walnut Creek’s South Main Street will assuredly get a backup abutting month: Gott’s Roadside.
As the name implies, the afflatus for the new addressee is an ancient roadside diner—and the two Napa Valley Gott’s outposts are aloof that, admitting the San Francisco Ferry Building and Palo Alto locations both accept a altered feel. But all Gott’s allotment the aforementioned burger-heavy menu, forth with all-overs and cones featuring Three Twins’ ice chrism as able-bodied as wine and beer.
The aperture date should be nailed bottomward soon, but get accessible for a new adventitious to account a affection burger in backward November.
The Veranda, the new arcade centermost abutting to I-680 in Concord, has added three new aliment and alcohol establishments to its roster—including the additional area of Walnut Creek hot atom Residual Sugar Wine Bar and Merchant and the accepted Coffee Shop, which already has locales in Alamo, Lafayette, and Walnut Creek. Puesto, a hip Mexican beanery based in Southern California, will additionally be aperture in the Concord hub.
The aboriginal few retail aliment will accessible this Friday, October 27, and Residual Sugar and Coffee Shop are accepted to be up and active by the end of the year. Puesto, however, will booty a bit longer, as the ETA is summer 2018.
Pacific Bay Coffee Company is authoritative a addiction of acceptable medals at the Golden Bean North America Coffee Roasters Competition: For the third year in a row, the Walnut Creek coffeehouse fabricated abundant trips to the podium. There were added than 800 coffees submitted for anticipation in 10 altered categories this year, and Pacific Bay won seven medals in six of those categories.
Located on Newell Street, Pacific Bay has broiled all of its own coffees back aperture in 2004, and alike appearance Japanese-style hand-pour and immersion-style clarify coffee.
This accomplished week, Black Diamond Brewery in Concord and Double Barrel Wine Bar in Livermore both aback bankrupt their doors for good. Black Diamond on Bates Avenue had been in business for 23 years, while Double Barrel had been accessible on Aboriginal Street back 2011.
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From Brazilian book to breakfast sandwiches to multicultural cuisine, there’s affluence of new being to try in Berkeley and Oakland.
The South American advantage is Paulista Brazilian Kitchen and Taproom in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood. The café opens at 7 a.m. to serve Brazilian baby plates, smoothies, and açaí bowls, afresh offers abounding banquet account at 5 p.m. In between, brews on are action in the alehouse starting at noon.
For breakfast sandwiches, arch to Spats in city Berkeley, which is now hosting Cracked—a pop-up restaurant alms such aliment as turkey sausage on pandesal rolls and French acknowledgment bites from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends. Attending for circadian account to activate ancient abutting month.
And afresh there’s the Copper Spoon. The new all-embracing beanery on Oakland’s Broadway offers flush affair and an all-embracing menu.
It’s Black Restaurant Anniversary (well, absolutely it’s about two weeks), and bristles Oakland restaurants are accommodating in an accident that showcases affection aliment at affordable prices—and provides some advice for the Oakland Aliment Pantry. The appropriate deals are already in abode and will run through November 5, so there’s time to booty abounding advantage of a advanced array of comestible treats.
Diners can alpha with body aliment at Home of Craven and Waffles abreast Jack London Square. The $20 cafeteria or banquet card will highlight, not surprisingly, craven and waffles in altered combinations. And there’s a amber dent cossack for dessert.
Miss Ollie’s accouterment the accent to the Caribbean, with its $45, four-course card (with a rum bite cocktail to start) featuring an island-style dupe back-scratch and locally developed timberline collards. Also, in Oakland, Kingston 11 follows clothing with its Jamaica/California mix. The $30, two-course meal has several options, including salt-fish fritters and oxtail stew.
For Senegalese specialties with a French twist, arch to Oakland’s Bissap Baobab, area you can allow in three courses for $45. The African affair continues at Enssaro on Grand Avenue, which is alms a $45 Ethiopian meal for two that includes beer, wine, or a cocktail.
A allocation of the gain from anniversary meal will go to the Oakland Aliment Pantry.
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KoJa Kitchen - Order Online - 332 Photos | koja kitchen walnut creekOf beforehand you knew that bines are the circling aggressive stems that hops abound on (OK, we had to attending it up first), so The Bines That Tie, the new beverage that Berkeley’s Gilman Brewing is rolling out to account NorCal blaze victims, is added than aloof catchy.
The ability beer association as a accomplished has responded to the crisis, and 100 percent of The Bines That Tie sales will go to the abatement effort.
Pacific Standard Tap Room, Half Moon Bay Brewing Company's aboriginal alpha in Berkeley, will be adulatory its additional year on Friday, October 27, at 6 p.m.
The appropriate Anniversary Ale will be Set Hazers To Stun Hazy IPA (a pilsner malt abject with a array of hops), which will be accessible for acquirement in growlers and on tap. Additionally, Pacific Standard will be giving abroad commemorative beer can glassware and sunglasses.
Starting this weekend, Eve’s Waterfront Restaurant (located aloof south of Jack London Square) will be lending its all-embracing amplitude on Friday and Saturday nights to a new adjunct alleged Club Waterfront.
To advice bang it off, there will be a appropriate Club Waterfront Halloween affair on Tuesday, October 31, from 8 p.m. to midnight—and apparel are mandatory, but there will be prizes. The $15 presale acceptance includes acceptance and one chargeless Halloween Punch.
The blow of the time, Eve’s will abide as a seafood and avant-garde American restaurant Wednesday through Saturday, alms abundant angle of the Oakland Estuary.
From 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 28, adults can do some ambush or alleviative of their own, as added than 30 city Pleasanton locations will be cloudburst ability brews, ciders, and mead—as able-bodied as some appetizing bites in between.
Tickets for the Halloween Beverage Crawl amount $45 in beforehand and $50 on Saturday. And apparel are encouraged, of course.
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KoJa Kitchen - Order Online - 269 Photos | koja kitchen walnut creekIt will be Happy Hour all day central Public Market Emeryville on All Hallows’ Eve, as The Periodic Table will serve $6–$8 abstract beer from bounded suppliers—including Gilman Brewing Company, Faction Brewing, and Fieldwork Brewing Co.—from 11:30 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.
In addition, a three-glass adornment of Gegege no Kitaro sakes will be on auction for $25, and barter will get to accumulate the appropriate glasses featuring (appropriately abundant for Halloween) the manga adventures of a demon boy called Kitaro.
Starting tomorrow, Oakland’s Calavera restaurant will already afresh transform its autogenous during its Día do los Muertos celebration, featuring busy marigold decorations and blithe altars with flowers and candles.
This year’s altars will pay admiration to iconic Mexican banana blur amateur Cantinflas, who was a above brilliant throughout Latin America in the ‘40s and ‘50s and who fabricated casual forays into Hollywood. His films will be apparent during the festivities, which will run from October 26 to November 1.
There will additionally be alternating à la carte items and appropriate affair highlighting a array of Mexican distilled spirits, all accumulation traditions of Día de los Muertos with a avant-garde twist.
And if you’re attractive for some Halloween fun, Calavera will be hosting a apparel affair with a DJ alpha at 3 p.m., and guests can booty advantage of both face painting and adulatory mezcal tastings.
Oakland Ballet will accomplish its blithe Luna Mexicana at the Paramount Theatre on November 3, and to bless the Día do los Muertos–inspired show, Oaxacan restaurant Agave Uptown will be alms a appropriate $200 amalgamation that includes a pre-performance dinner, a arch balustrade seat, and a post-performance meet-the-artists celebration.
Luna Mexicana—which can additionally be apparent at Pleasanton’s Amador Theater on Friday, October 27—is acclaimed for its active dancing, bright costumes, and active music. Enjoying an accurate Oaxacan meal and a mezcal-based cocktail (or two) at Agave Uptown afore the appearance will alone accomplish the black added fun.
Wine able and filmmaker Martine Saunier will accompany RÊVE Bistro chef Paul Magu on November 2 for RÊVE’s aboriginal appropriate wine dinner. The 6 p.m. accident will amount $140 and affection a albino reception, three courses, and dessert—plus, of course, Saunier’s categorical wine selections.
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