Tag Archive for 'oakland'

This Just In: Liberty Duck Ragù with Bigoli

Second only to tripe, our house-made bigoli has an avid following of devotees that request phone calls when it appears on the menu. One very pregnant bigoli super fan came in to dine in hopes that her favorite dish would induce labor & indeed later that night she gave birth to healthy baby boy. Such is the mythic propensity of Chef Jonah’s bigoli!

Rethinking School Lunch in Oakland

In conjunctions with the Oakland Unified School District and the Center for Ecoliteracy, Oliveto’s It’s Complicated series is proud to present:
Rethinking School Lunch In Oakland
October 14, 2012
1:00 – 2:30
In the upstairs dining room at Oliveto Restaurant
5655 College Avenue
Oakland, CA
THIS IS A FREE EVENT – but please “buy” a ticket so we can get an accurate [...]

This Just In – Magruder Lamb

Starting tonight, we’ve got some delicious lamb on the menu from Mac Magruder. Mac says he got his stock from “an old guy across the valley. They are a Suffolk cross-breed. He didn’t do anything for them, they’re organic by neglect.” Mac lucked out though, because they turn out…

This Just In: Intergalatic Nectarines

If you’ve been hitting the Farmers’ Markets recently, you know that stone fruit, particularly peaches and nectarines are going OFF right now.
As always, our friends at Blossom Bluff Orchards have some incredible offerings in this department, and if you’ve been to the Blossom Bluff stand you know that they have an uncanny ability to pick [...]

Making the Season Bright

Vocal Rush, from the Oakland School for the Arts stopped by the Oliveto kitchen last night. They are raising money to get to the International High School A Cappella Championship competition in Portland, later in January. Find them at facebook.com/osa-vocal-rush

Add to that the fact that we are roasting chestnuts & serving…

Late Winter Update from Brookside Farm

Last Saturday’s cold snap in the Bay Area affected Brookside Farm in a completely unexpected way. For the past couple of years, we’ve been ordering our tomato seedlings exclusively from Kassenhoff Growers, located in Oakland. The owner/operators have been our friends for many years, and…

We’re not done yet…

The 2010 Truffle Dinners officially ended on Saturday, November 2o. But due to the bounty of truffles this year, we’ll continue to offer a Black Truffle pizza on the Oliveto Cafe dinner menu for the next two weeks…

Dinner to Celebrate My Calabria – Nov. 4

A special dinner prepared by Chef Paul Canales in celebration of Rosetta Costantino’s beautiful new cookbook, My Calabria.
Rosetta and Paul initially met when both of their children were attending the same school here in Oakland. After learning about…

This Weekend

Aged Grass-fed beef, wild fennel pollen, and superior Chianti Classicos…sounds like a good weekend…

Announcing Oceanic Dinners 2010

9th Annual Oceanic Dinners at Oliveto: June 9-12 “At a time when many of us worry about what sort of fish we should be eating, one Californian reader kindly sent me the exemplary menu from a special seafood dinner held at Oliveto restaurant in Oakland. It’s a fine example of a restaurant taking …