— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Looks fancy.
I've been on a mac n' cheese kick lately, so it's worth noting that the City of Oakland, aka the new Mission District, is home to a new mac restaurant, Homeroom. Plenty of solid meat and meat-free options, reasonable beer prices despite a lack of canned beer for sale (!!!), and, naturally, Vegansaurus! is all sorts of pumped for their vegan mac:
Oh hellllll yeah. Finally some vegan mac and cheese action up in this joint! I know of only two other places serving vegan mac and cheese in the entire Bay Area: Souley Vegan (some people love it, some people leave it) and Herbivore (If you held a gun to my head and forced me to eat either Herbivore mac and cheese or Hazel’s dog shit, I’d think reallllllly hard. And then I’d eat the mac and cheese but GOOD GOD, it’s the funk). If you know of others, please let a fat vegan know. Anyway, Homeroom (adorable name) is opening on 40th street in Oakland on Tuesday, Feb. 15
Thankfully, Homeroom is a mere 6 minute walk from the MacArthur BART station, so you can stuff you face cheese and carbs and be back at the 500 Club before the horrifying reality that you left San Francisco sets in.
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BROWN SHUGGA ON TAP.
I’m there.
“…so you can stuff you face cheese and carbs and be back at the 500 Club before the horrifying reality that you left San Francisco sets in.”
I left San Francisco for Oakland two years ago and I haven’t the faintest idea what you could mean by “horrifying reality”; best move I ever made. The City ain’t The City anymore. It’s all played. And I say this as a native who still maintains a base level of unconditional love for her hometown.
Not knocking your article at all though. Thanks for keeping us all in the know. Just wish that people would quit the ignorant-elitist-SF-bullshit-talk about Oakland. I say check it for yourself and appreciate it for what it is or just keep it out of your mouth.
It was sarcasm. Maybe people were more apt to hang out in neighboring cities back when you lived here, but they sure don’t now.
Yeah. I realize that. Sorry for writing so aggressively, but it’s my sore spot. Friends from SF won’t come out to have dinner for fear of becoming a crime statistic. The few that will cross the bridge walk around like they are terrified of their own shadows. It’s cool; I think I prefer it that way. It’s like keeping a really juicy secret…
As an SF resident that fiercely resists outings to the east bay, I just want to point out my two biggest barriers (that have nothing whatever to do with theoretical crime): the two+ hours of travel time it adds when we take the muni-Bart route, and the $50 it costs us for total transportation (when we inevitably cab it back to the outer Richmond because taking the 31 at midnight sounds about as bearable as eating Hazels poo).
I love [things about] Oakland. But where we live it is like an interstate outing. The only thing that gets us over there is our east bay resident friends that understandably don’t want to come here EVERY time. But usually do.