Oakland

A local couple with major Bay Area wine-and-dining connections is working to open a French-inspired wine bar on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito. It's been a bumpy road, from construction and permitting delays to a freak car accident, but the building at San Pablo and Stockton avenues is now in renovation.

East Bay taco outfit Tacos El Último Baile, which has been evolving since its early days selling its delicious creations from a table outside an Oakland bar in 2016, is about to debut its own brick-and-mortar location starting Saturday.

A new 46-story building proposed for downtown Oakland, on Kaiser Plaza, will be the city’s tallest building if it gets built.

A new restaurant is opening October 12 in Uptown Oakland, across from the Fox, specializing in handrolls — a sushi trend that is sure to be met with long lines soon enough.

The fifth annual incarnation of Oakland's Drunken Film Fest will show no less than 74 independent short movies over six nights, with showings taking place at a different bar each night from Sunday, Oct. 9 through Friday, Oct. 14.

A beloved beer garden, restaurant, art gallery, and classic car dealership in the heart of Uptown Oakland is now closed.

The 20-year-old Emeryville diner will be reopening sometime next month, thanks to a couple of the restaurant's longtime employees.

Oakland will be getting a new spot to get a mind-blowing piece of homemade pie and an alcoholic beverage in the evening, along with a savory breakfast-syle hand pie in the morning.

An oyser pop-up propietor with no formal training is getting ready to open a restaurant focused on raw oysters in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood in a few months.

The dream to turn an almost century-old movie theater near the eastern side of Lake Merritt in Oakland into the first-ever cannabis-friendly movie house is on hold, but it is apparently still in the works.

Called “Seize the Time,” the Oakland Museum of California’s upcoming exhibit will be curated around the influence of Angela Davis and includes over 130 pieces organized into four sections, each one themed around a specific topic around her advocacy work.

One of Oakland’s oldest Ethiopian restaurants is moving into a much bigger location next month, which will allow it to expand the menu and add unique cocktails.

That wacky Olympic sport involving ice, brooms, and very large rocks is something you can now practice in Oakland, at a new curling-only ice rink called the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club.

It looks like Oakland’s Jack London Square could be back on the map by the end of the year as a dining destination, with six new restaurants expected to open in the next few months.

An Oakland non-profit has plans underway to build an ambitious new food hall and event space that would also include other community amenities and affordable housing.

Owner Joshua Huynh is putting the finishing touches on Town Bar & Lounge inside the historic I. Magnin building at 2001 Broadway (at 20th Street).

A new LGBTQ bar that doubles as an event venue is in the works for downtown Oakland from the founders of Port Bar at 2023 Broadway.

If you miss the remarkable skillet fried chicken from the famed Miss Ollie’s restaurant in Oakland, then you are in luck.