Partner Love: Uptown Oakland
A bowl of comfort courtesy of Itani Ramen.
Here’s a rundown on what our Uptown Oakland Food & Drinks Tour partners are doing right now. If you’re in a position to support these businesses, they could use all the love we can give them. —Lisa
Brown Sugar Kitchen doing what it does best for customers to enjoy at home.
Brown Sugar Kitchen: Open for to-go, online pre-order. Think comfort classics like buttermilk fried chicken, collard greens, and mac&cheese. Or buy a gift card for future use at the restaurant.
Calavera: Temporarily closed. Find gift cards here.
Dosa by Dosa: Temporarily closed; gift cards online. Find their fragrant curries, samosas, luscious lassis & more @ Good Eggs & in select markets, including Whole Foods. Open for online order @ “dosa on DOSA” via Caviar, DoorDash, GrubHub, or UberEats.
Firebrand Artisan Breads: Open for online orders and pickup, including breads, pastries (hello pretzel morning buns), and * new* pizzas. Some baking ingredients, while stocks last, too.
Hopscotch: Open for curbside pickup and Caviar delivery. Menu here; party packs include a bucket of buttermilk fried chicken & three scrumptious sides.
Humphry Slocombe: Hive location open from 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. for pick up or delivery (via Caviar, Postmates, or DoorDash) for all your quarantine ice cream party needs.
Itani Ramen: Open for to-go pickup & delivery via Caviar and DoorDash for ramen, rice bowls, gyoza & izakaya bites. Carry-out cocktails too. GoFundMe here. East Bay FeedER participant.
Woods Bar & Brewery: Now shipping their signature beer to East Bay & SF homes. Order online. Or pickup beer, wine & frozen El Porteno empanadas at Woods locations. Staff GoFundMe here.
Shout out to alums: Duende, Molcajete, and Sweet Bar Bakery, all open for to-go/delivery right now.
Kudos to our pal Tanya Holland of Brown Sugar Kitchen for being East Bay FeedER’s first guest chef on the frontlines. And shout out to Hopscotch GM Jenny Schwarz for repping the restaurant end at East Bay FeedER.
Special nod to the bar community, including stalwarts Bar Dogwood, Cafe Van Kleef & Make Westing. We look forward to drinking with you again soon. Signal boost to these newbies for innovations during tough time: Bar Shiru (virtual tip jar, gift cards & IG virtual cocktail hour), Hello Stranger (strange times call for stronger cocktails to-go, Hello Hellabanged) & Viridian (check out their to-go market for quarantine cocktails & snacks).
This week in pandemic picks: Support Luka’s Taproom, which has turned itself into a community kitchen during the crisis, feeding people in need. Keep it moving & learn local history by social distance walking around Lake Merritt, Old Oakland, or the City Center. Find your caffeine fix from the good folks at Red Bay Coffee Company, now delivering to your door. Go big with booze: Our friends at Two Mile Wines and Osco Spirit Co. will special deliver on orders of $120 or more. Comes with a complimentary bottle of their hand sanitizer too. Find provisions & produce in one handy spot: The wine bar The PunchDown has partnered with River Dog Farm to offer a CSA box along with that natural wine. Contactless, curbside pickup for the win! And kudos to the seafood restaurant Alamar, which has reimagined itself as a community kitchen serving free meals to unemployed restaurant workers, as part of southern chef Ed Lee’s restaurant workers relief program known as The Lee Initiative.
Partner recipes to add to your repertoire: Give this gyoza a go with this family dumpling recipe, courtesy of chef Kyle Itani of Itani Ramen. Make a batch of Vegetarian Dirty Rice, recipe via chef Tanya Holland of Brown Sugar Kitchen. Impress your quarantine cocktail hour crew with this Rhubarb Rose Margarita from Calavera. Enjoy!
Sign up for our COVID-19 Quarantine Cocktail Classes, in partnership with top mixologist Dolly Valdez Bautista of Hawker Fare in San Francisco. Cheers!