The Fried Chicken Sandwich ($12) is served open faced on focaccia, on a bed of tender shredded little gem lettuces, topped with pickled onions, and a rich savory sausage gravy with a side of braised greens. The zinc-topped bar has room for 10 people and looks like a cozy spot to hang out and be in the middle of the action. Managing the front of the house is the chef’s wife, restaurant co-owner and Operations Manager Melissa Swanson who worked at Oliveto Cafe & Restaurant and Chez Panisse and who we found to be delightful and charming. Assisting him in the kitchen is Chef de Cuisine Jennifer Moffitt who was most recently at Boot & Shoe Service. Chef Swanson was previously at Oliveto Cafe & Restaurant and Dopo where he worked as sous chef for six years. The restaurant is in a gorgeous historic building with high ceilings and the room is filled with light from the surrounding windows. K, so this is an extra long post covering several meals! It had been a few years since we last saw each other so we had a lot to catch up on, so I was distracted and forgot to take a shot of the fizzy! Fortunately, TK took this photo of me as we toasted, so there you go… Also, I was invited to dine there as a guest of the house and I loved it so much that I came back with Mr. We started off with festive glasses of fizzy Prosecco (Gasparini, Veneto NV). I met my friend TK for lunch who I’ve known since high school, who I don’t see nearly as often as I’d like. It is seriously our new favorite pizza pie! This is their second location, which recently opened in the historic Old Oakland neighborhood which is much closer for me than the original location in Kensington. And I really have to tell you about a new pizza place that opened up in old Oakland called Benchmark Pizza. Anyways, sometimes a place is so good that it needs a big page dedicated just to them, and that’s why we still write our blogs. Hey is anyone out there still reading blogs? I am much more active on Instagram so I hope you follow me there. 499 9th Street, Oakland, CA | 51 | website | reservations online
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