Stay Gold opened in 2016 and took over the space that had been used by a bbq place called Shuga Hill that had closed in about 2012. The name Stay Gold comes from a line in the movie The Outsiders based on the S. E. Hinton novel of the same name: “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.”
I think that Stay Gold used the same smoker that was left over from the Shuga Hill days. The former operator of Shuga joined with renowned Burmese chef William Lue to start short-lived Brothers Kitchen a few blocks away at San Pablo Ave and 30th Street which served soul food and Burmese dishes,
Luke Tsai did 2 favorable columns about Stay gold for the East Bay Express.
Stay gold on Check Please from last year for about 6 minutes starting at 2:07
Stay Gold Deli
(https://www.facebook.com/staygolddeli/)
2635 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland
(510) 350-8729
