It’s too bad the “where to get Jewish food for the High Holidays” guide doesn’t think that anything exists in the East Bay outside of Oakland and Berkeley (I guess Richmond is an extension of Berkeley). As Kneaded Bakery in San Leandro, whose owner and chief baker is Jewish, is offering 3 types of round challah for Rosh Hashanah, as well as a package that contains a plain challah, local honey, and 1 1/2 pounds of apples.
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Luke on Fall Food Festivals -
Oakland Little Saigon Mid-Autumn Festival
Clinton Park, Oakland
September 18, 2021, noon–5pm
K-Food Gochujang Festival
Presidio of San Francisco, Presidio Theatre Outdoor Plaza
September 18, 2021, 11am–2pm
LumpiaPalooza
District Six, 428 11th Street, San Francisco
Oct. 23–Oct. 24, 2021
Día de los Muertos Festival and Fruitvale Restaurant Week
International Boulevard, from Fruitvale Ave. to 40th Ave., Oakland
Oct. 25–Oct. 31, 2021
New for Berkeley and Oakland -
Dumpling Hours , 1389 B North Main St. (inside the Phillips Building), Walnut Creek
Limon , 2450 Valdez St. (at 26th Street), Oakland
Palestinian-inspired California plates for breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch for now. (Check out the beautiful mezze board). Lulu Berkeley , 1019 Camelia St. (at 10th Street), Berkeley
French and Algerian pastries at Belmo Cafe * 1160 University Ave. (between San Pablo Avenue and Curtis Street), Berkeley*
Espinas describes this “personal project” as a neighborhood bar with more complex food offerings, including oysters and a charcuterie plate. There are also sly takes on snacks like maple-roasted bar nuts and the “Caesar Eggs,” devilled eggs with anchovy-and-sheep’s-milk cheese.
The Lede, open Wednesday to Thursday, 4–9pm, and Friday to Saturday, 4–10pm. 308 41st St., Oakland. info@theledeoakland.com. theledeoakland.com
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Chicken liver tostada with sour cherry chamoy, fried onions & chives
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Jonathan Kauffman is a James Beard Award-winning food journalist, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, and the author of Hippie Food , a history of the 1970s natural-foods movement. Follow him on Twitter. Follow Resy, too.
1 Dai Bao at Ma’s Dimsum and Cafe
2 Yi Fu Wontons at Far East Cafe
3 Roasted Pork (sort of) at New Lun Ting Cafe
4 Tomato Beef Chow Mein with Curry Powder at
Capital Restaurant
5 Chicken Drummettes at New Golden Daisy
6 Diana’s Meat Pie Special at Henry’s Hunan
San Francisco’s only Guamanian restaurant
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The Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival is a yearly celebration in San Francisco. The 2021 event is a two day on September 11 & 12 and runs from 11am - 5pm both days.
“This colorful event features a parade, live entertainment, arts & crafts, and a variety of food and drinks. There is so much to do that you could easily spend both days here and want more. All activities take place along Grant Avenue in the heart of Chinatown.”
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From Bay Area chef Tu David Phu on PBS Newshour today -
from TrulyCA on KQED a few weeks ago-
from YouTube -
In ‘Bloodline’, Bay Area chef Tu David Phu discovers that the lessons learned in his family kitchen run deeper than his formal training.
The film joins Phu just as he returns home to Oakland, California after being a contestant on the competitive cooking series, Top Chef (Season 15). As he and his parents prepare a Saturday dinner, drawing on his mother’s self-taught culinary repertoire (which began in a Thai refugee camp), and his father’s ancestry as a free-diver and fishmonger from Phú Quốc, Vietnam, Tu reflects on his visibility as a “celebrity chef,” tracing how he went from refugee roots and a childhood in West Oakland, to this new life by relying on things learned from his family kitchen–rather than the “formal” skills and training learned in culinary school–including how to turn something “inedible,” such as fish bloodline, into a beautiful dish.
A film by James Q. Chan and Santhosh Daniel
Bloodline is now available on your local PBS Channel. Check your local listings.
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Bake Sum
3249 Grand Ave.
Oakland
Jo’s Modern Thai, open Wednesday to Sunday, 4–9pm,
3725 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland.
510.479.3167
. josmodernthai.com
Betty Yu on KPIX -
Bill Addison in the LA Times -
Soleil Ho in the SF Chronicle -
Matt Horn of
Horn Barbecue, Oakland, CA and other new chefs -
Matt Horn’s Oakland City Guide
State Bird Provisions, San Francisco, CA
Minnie Bell’s Rosemary Fried Chicken and sides in Emeryville Public Market -
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Jenn Harris today in the LA Times -
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Meet & Greet w/ Top Chefs Maria Mazon, Nelson German and Dawn Burrell (Oakland)
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
Moxy Oakland Downtown | 2225 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Top Chef’s Season 18 cheftestants Maria Mazon, chef/owner of BOCA Tacos y Tequila in Tucson, Nelson German, chef/owner of Sobre Mesa and alaMar in Oakland and finalist Dawn Burrell of Houston’s forthcoming Late August restaurant. Event begins in the spacious lobby of the newly opened Moxy Oakland Downtown at 4pm, with a Q&A panel moderated by Chef Tu David Phu, Top Chef Season 15 contestant, to follow from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Cocktails, including Chef German’s popular Guava Margarita from alaMar, and Moxy’s signature flatbreads will be available for purchase. Free to attend. No registration necessary.
Job openings at Berkeleyside/Oaklandside for NOSH Food Editor and Head of Audience Development. Deadline is September 20, 2021. Pay is 90k and 85k, respectively.
Eastlake/Little Saigon Mid-Autumn Festival
Clinton Park (655 International Blvd), Oakland
Sept. 18, 2021, noon–5 p.m.
Tian Jin Dumplings. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. daily. 989 Franklin St., Ste. B, Oakland. Takeout only. Cash and Venmo only. 510-459-6265
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Join live on Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 5:30 pm. (The live chat might be restricted to SF Chronicle subscribers only, not sure about that or whether the YouTube video might be available to everyone thereafter.)
Join Chronicle reporter Janelle Bitker for a video chat with three people who have done this very task: Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho, who recently debuted her Top Burrito list; Anna Maria Barry-Jester, the writer of the FiveThirtyEight’s famed 2014 burrito bracket; and Ozi Magaña, a Bay Area local who’s been ranking burritos on Instagram for years.
Luke Tsai at KQEDArts
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For Wednesday’s pop-up, Garcia will be selling several of Asúkar’s greatest Halal-friendly hits, including her harissa chicken wings, falafel salad and Palestinian samboosas filled with Cuban-style beef picadillio. Those offerings join Prima’s Corner’s, which in addition to appetizers like the plantains and the cauliflower wings will also include a full dinner plate featuring a dish that Kruda calls “moros y no cristianos”—her take on the classic black-bean-and-rice dish moros y cristianos, but made with brown rice instead of white.
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I listened to 53 minutes of host Alexis Madrigal and guests discuss on KQED FM Forum last Friday the decline of alt weekly newspapers in San Francisco with the announced closure of the SF Weekly. The Bay Area alt weeklies helped give rise to a generation of food writers such as John Birdsall, Jon Kauffman, Luke Tsai, Janelle Bitker, Peter Kane, Jesse Hirsch, Janet Hazen and others. Though food writing wasn’t specifically discussed in the broadcast, it is a worthwhile listen for insight into the pivot of print journalism to digital. There was a point a few years ago when I thought that the East Bay Express was the best weekly in California when it had Luke on food, Sarah Burke on art, Lee Hildebrand and Nastia Voynovskaya on music, Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston on Oakland politics, and Kelly Vance on movies,
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Good reason to consider being a vegetarian!!! I advocate it. I have switched to being almost completely vegetarian in 2021. Not eating meat is one of biggest and most effective things you can do in your own life to help with the Climate Crisis. I know we love the taste of meat, but with effort one can find very tasty vegetarian food.
Mama Lemees Middle Eastern food stall in the Emeryville Public Market is closing on Sept 30, 2021 due to the expiration of its lease and has not yet found a new location.
After doing a quick search, this news may be a Hungry Onion Worldwide Exclusive.
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Luke -
Now, that time has come: Wahpepah has taken over the Fruitvale BART–adjacent space formerly occupied by Reem’s, the groundbreaking Arab bakery. When the new Wahpepah’s Kitchen opens there later this fall—hopefully by the end of October, Wahpepah says—it will be an all-day Indigenous restaurant serving blue corn waffles, blueberry bison meatballs and a variety of colorful Native salads and stews. It will be the only place of its kind in Oakland.
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