understory oakland

Restaurant · Old City

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"This restaurant and commissary kitchen opened during the pandemic and just officially became a worker-run cooperative, also snagging the Emerging Leadership award from the James Beard Foundation. The restaurant serves cuisines that reflect the diversity of its worker-owners, including Filipino, Moroccan, Mexican, and Lao foods. The menu also features daily vegan specials, and many weekends, the space hosts pop-ups from immigrant-run businesses from Oakland Bloom’s kitchen incubator program. Brunch is now offered on both Saturday and Sunday." - Momo Chang

13 Cooperatively-Owned Restaurants, Bakeries, and Markets in the Bay Area

Ohlone Territory, 528 8th St, Oakland, CA 94607 Get directions

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