Oakland

For one queer Oakland couple, Rebecca Longworth and Joan Howard, their live-work space used to be a storied, rough-and-tumble, two-story lesbian bar called The Jubilee.

Celebrated Oakland Italian restaurant Oliveto is definitively closing down this weekend after a temporary reopening earlier this year.

Fans of the widely-regarded Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Old Oakland community, Miss Ollie’s, will be happy to know that they will once again be able to get their hands on some of the eatery’s most beloved dishes.

A popular bakery with Estonian roots that got its start in Seattle's Pike Place Market is about to go on tour with three pop-up opportunities for Bay Area foodies to try their world-famous creations.

A new bar is in the works for Uptown Oakland at the former location of Here's How, a cocktail bar that was previously the target of protests from neighbors who live upstairs.

You won’t be able to watch live music outdoors this weekend at Oakland's Molcajete Cocina Mexicana because the restaurant’s robust parklet has been destroyed.

The Oakland Coliseum has had its fair share of problems that have it ranked as the second-worst MLB stadium in the league. And now: feral cats!

For over 100 years, Oakland’s Stork Club served up cheap drinks and live local music, and under new owners it will live on with distinctive John Waters aesthetic.

Plans are moving ahead for two 12-story developments right next to the two BART stops in Berkeley. If built, the two housing towers could provide a combined 3,600 new residential units.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is facing more backlash after taking her throwing shade at Las Vegas even further.

A big announcement for construction workers, home-improvement buffs, and DIYers: It appears North Oakland could be getting a new Home Depot store.

Sad news for a peregrine falcon that made his home on top of the huge Campanile at UC Berkeley and that had recently made a resilient recovery.

Chef Verna McGowan is branching out from her role as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker’s personal chef, and she’s opening her own Caribbean restaurant in Emeryville, Calypso Rose Kitchen.

A catering business that is known to be the Bay Area’s only vegan Puerto Rican food operation will soon open a brick-and-mortar location in North Oakland.

A beloved bakery in Berkeley that was fighting to hold on after being ravaged by the pandemic has now set a closing date.

Some significant redeployments in the ongoing Nashville hot chicken sandwich wars, as Twitter building food hall fave Hotbird heads to Uptown Oakland, and World Famous Hotboys has a new spot in Walnut Creek

An underground dinner club known as Hi Felicia, which became an instant hit in Oakland last year after launching in Feb. 2021, will start taking reservations for a brick-and-mortar location in the city’s Uptown District on April 1st

Bar Comal, near Lake Merritt in Oakland, will start offering brunch this weekend.