Brenda's Oakland
Restaurant · Piedmont Avenue ·
Soul food with beignets, fried chicken, & shrimp and grits.
Soul food with beignets, fried chicken, & shrimp and grits.
"At this Temescal soul food spot, you can get a two-course meal ($30-38) that includes one of their fluffy beignets for dessert. The mains range from a bowl of seafood gumbo to a Creole sampler platter with red beans and rice with andouille sausage, fried catfish, hushpuppies, and more." - julia chen 1
"In the Bay Area, the word “beignets” is synonymous with Brenda’s. The soul food spot with an original location in the Tenderloin opened this bigger, brighter outpost in Temescal. The place is usually mobbed most weekend mornings with families devouring shrimp and grits on the patio and hungover friend groups resuscitating themselves with coffee and a flight of those sweet and savory donuts. None of the mostly fried menu will change your life, but it’s easy to leave satisfied and full enough of powdered sugar and crawfish to spend the next couple of hours horizontal on the couch." - julia chen 1, lani conway
"In the Bay Area, the word “beignets” is synonymous with Brenda’s. The soul food spot with an original location in the Tenderloin opened this bigger, brighter outpost in Temescal. The place is mobbed most weekend mornings with families devouring brunch on the patio and hungover friend groups debriefing over a flight of donuts. For an entree in between all of the powdered sugar and fried dough, go with the shrimp and cheddar grits, which are zhuzhed up by tomato-bacon gravy with a subtle kick." - julia chen 1, patrick wong, lani conway
"In the Bay Area, the word “beignets” is synonymous with Brenda’s. The soul food spot with an original location in the Tenderloin opened this bigger, brighter outpost in Temescal. The place is usually mobbed most weekend mornings with families devouring shrimp and grits on the patio and hungover friend groups resuscitating themselves with coffee and a flight of those sweet and savory donuts. None of the mostly fried menu will change your life, but it’s easy to leave satisfied and full enough of powdered sugar and crawfish to spend the next couple of hours horizontal on the couch." - Julia Chen
"I was told that Brenda’s Oakland is also in the slow process of reopening, with takeout and delivery options available as the restaurants recover from pandemic-related declines." - Erin Perkins