December 20th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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March 9th, 2011 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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November 22nd, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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October 18th, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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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…
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July 22nd, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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Aged Grass-fed beef, wild fennel pollen, and superior Chianti Classicos…sounds like a good weekend…
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May 26th, 2010 by Maggie Blyth Klein
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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 …
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January 28th, 2010 by Catherine Meng
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This coming Saturday, Oliveto will be hosting a benefit in partnership with the Bay Area Red Cross to raise funds for survivors of the recent earthquake in Haiti. A number of people have come forward to generously offer their time and donate goods & services, that we’ve already been moved by the outpouring & the event hasn’t even happened yet! That is to say, we’ve got some excellent prizes lined up for…
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December 3rd, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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Our own wild boar prosciutto has been hanging for 18 months and it is absolutely stunning. Meanwhile, Mac Magruder’s rib-eye veal has been aging in the meat locker for the past few weeks. Add a little bit of sage, and we’ve got saltimbocca (Italian: jumps in the mouth) – on the menu starting tonight and into the weekend. Also, Chef Paul Canales just got back from Chinatown where…
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August 18th, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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Our favorite roving produce expert, Bill Fujimoto, visited the Temescal Farmers’ Market last Sunday to check out what the height of summer has to offer. With all the peaches on display, it was a perfect opportunity to get the skinny on how to pick the perfect peach, which has everything to do with background color and branch marks….
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April 24th, 2009 by Catherine Meng
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We’ve updated our profile of Mr. Espresso to include a short video of the coffee bean roasting process as it happens at their warehouse in Oakland…
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