{"id":11284,"date":"2013-03-08T02:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11284"},"modified":"2013-03-08T02:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:35:04","slug":"oakland-food-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/oakland-food-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Food Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/oakfod.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oakland, has always been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/east-bay-inventions-popsicles-and-caffe-latte\/\">known for innovation<\/a>. This is where the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/popsicle.html\">Popsicle was invented<\/a>! The city&#8217;s hot new food scene with restaurants and cafes popping up all over is turning heads and bringing crowds back to town to explore what&#8217;s going down. Photos left to right:\u00a0 chef at Homeroom, home to Mac &amp; Cheese; a purple beverage with mint; and\u00a0 The Hog&#8217;s Apothecary tasty offering &#8212; Boudin Blanc with roasted leeks and grain mustard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Culinary Events<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 9: Oakland Grown Card Crawl &#8211; Piedmont Avenue<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONGOING<\/strong> (courtesy visitoakland.org)<br \/>\nSavor Oakland Food Tours &#8211; Jack London Square<br \/>\nArctic Tours: Fenton&#8217;s Creamery<br \/>\nTuesdays: Free cuppings at 2 p.m. &#8211; Blue Bottle Coffee<br \/>\nFirst Wednesday of the Month: Wine Wednesdays &#8211; JC Cellars<br \/>\nFridays: Free tastings at Oakland Starbucks Coffee Company from 2 p.m. &#8211; close<br \/>\nFridays: Old Oakland Farmers Market &#8211; Old Oakland<br \/>\nFridays &amp; Saturdays: Weekly Wine Tastings at Farmstead Cheeses &amp; Wines<br \/>\nFridays &amp; Saturdays: Dinner, a Movie and the Universe &#8211; Chabot Space &amp; Science Center<br \/>\nFirst Saturday Tastings: Taste the latest releases at Stage Left Cellars 11 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m.<br \/>\nSaturdays: Grand Lake Farmers Market &#8211; Grand and Lake Park Avenues<br \/>\nSundays: Montclair Famers Market- La Salle at Moraga Avenues<br \/>\nSundays: Temescal Farmers Market- 5300 Claremont<br \/>\nSundays: Jack London Square Market &#8211; Broadway and Embarcadero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, has always been known for innovation. This is where the famous Popsicle was invented! The city&#8217;s hot new food scene with restaurants and cafes popping up all over is turning heads and bringing crowds back to town to explore what&#8217;s going down. Photos left to right:\u00a0 chef at Homeroom, home to Mac &amp; Cheese; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}