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Modern Coffee: Off Duty Brew at Oakland’s First Coffee Taproom

We’ve reached the point that specialty coffee has moved beyond the third wave, and that the idea of sticking with a single roaster – unless you’re the company actually doing the roasting – has...
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Pizzaiolo: Applying Touches of Chez Panisse to Pizza

When Chez Panisse alumni Charlie Hallowell struck out on his own in 2005, he and manager Omar White chose an unlikely location for their pizzeria: the former home of G&G Hardware. Pizzaiolo doesn’t have...
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Oliveto: Living Up to Outsized Reputation in Oakland [CLOSED]

Oliveto is an institution, an Oakland favorite for Italian food, built on the reputation of chef Paul Bertolli. With Mr. Bertolli scaling back to start the Fra’ Mani salumi company, I was interested to...
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