Souley Vegan (Oakland), open for pickup and delivery via Grubhub, Caviar, and DoorDash. Home of Chicken and Waffles (Oakland), open for pickup and delivery via Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates. Lois the Pie Queen (Oakland), open for takeout. Kingston 11 Cuisine (Oakland), open for pickup only by calling (510) 465-2558 or emailing Cafe (Oakland and Antioch), open June 5 for pickup and delivery via DoorDash and Uber Eats. Lena's Soul Food (Oakland), open for pickup and delivery via UberEats. International Smoke, open for pick up and delivery at. Two Jacks Nik's Place, open for pickup and delivery via DoorDash and Postmates. Yvonne's Southern Sweets, open for curbside pickup by calling (415) 368-7900 check out other Bay Area locations currently carrying her famous butter cookies here.Īmawele's South African Kitchen, temporarily closed. Radio African Kitchen, open for takeout order at and DoorDash.įrisco Fried, open for pick up via and delivery on DoorDash. Queen's Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe, currently open for takeout, call-in orders at 41. Little Skillet, open for pick up and delivery via. Sheba Piano Lounge, temporarily closed donate to their team GoFundMe. Miyako Old-Fashioned Ice Cream, currently not taking online orders, call (415) 931-5260 for more details.Īuntie Aprils, currently not taking online orders, but will soon according to their Grubhub page. *UPDATE June 10, 2020: Open for takeout via .įor more black-owned eateries, see below. You can catch Matt Horn, and his 500-gallon custom smoker, Lucille, at various pop-up locations around Oakland check Horn Barbecue's Facebook page for future dates and locations. To say Horn has honed his meat-smoking techniques is an understatement with days to prepare between each pop-up, no shortage of time and dedication is put towards preparing meats (including brisket, homemade sausage and pork cuts), as well as homemade rubs and sauces. According to Horn's bio, after grilling a particularly bad batch of spare ribs, Horn vowed to 'never cook bad cue again' and took to his grandmother's backyard to perfect the art of pit-smoking meats. *UPDATE June 10, 2020: Isla Vida is now permanently closed.*ĭespite making its mark as one of the best Texas-inspired barbecue eateries in the bay, cooking barbecue wasn't always owner and chef Matt Horn's goal. The food of the Diaspora is very just depends on where the boat stopped.' // Isla Vida, 1325 Fillmore St. As Trevor quotes in his piece about the restaurant, Foster is simply 'trying to follow the footsteps of our ancestors culinarily. There's not many places to get Caribbean food in the Bay, and Foster and Washington have definitely done their research. In our last visit to Isla Vida, chef-owner Jay Foster and co-owner Matthew Washington told us, 'We're trying to touch on a few of the little things that we really like, try to represent it really well and hopefully make our ancestors proud.' Though it took over a decade to get the idea to be a reality, their Caribbean-centric restaurant finally opened last year in the Fillmore district, the former 'Harlem of the West.' Black-owned restaurants previously thrived there, but now Isla Vida (in a space formerly taken by another black-owned business, Black Bark BBQ) is just one of a few black-owned businesses in the neighborhood.

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