How to Shop Responsibly The Lakeshore Business Improvement District and the Splash Pad News are doing what we can to direct you to nearby food sources while also assisting the locally-owned neighborhood businesses we value so highly. Many have already been skating on thin ice due to a multitude of challenges. The COVID-19 virus now represents […]
Splash Pad News – March 2020
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE Last month, we reported on Aisle 5’s brewery operations but failed to mention one specific concern shared by their brewmaster, Karl Bauermeister. Namely, they’re having to dispose of approximately 300 pounds of spent grain (typically barley) every week and, for the time being, that means paying to have it […]
Splash Pad News – February 2020
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE I hadn’t visited Aisle 5 in a while and, when I did so this past Thursday, I was delighted to find that they had moved their brewery out of a backroom and into a corner of the dining area. I was even more delighted to meet their brewmaster, […]
Splash Pad News – January 2020
All the News That Fits Editor’s Note: Sending our very best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year… GRAND AVENUE Wild Rabbit Bakery (3249 Grand Avenue) opened very quietly on December 17 – many months after we first reported that a bakery was returning to this stretch of Grand Avenue. Let me note that […]
Splash Pad News – December 2019
All the News That Fits Editor’s Note: As the New Year approaches, I’d be remiss if I failed to mention that 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the very first meeting of the Splash Pad Neighborhood Forum in what is now Walden Pond’s Rare Book Room. Back then, no one (especially me) could envision that […]
Splash Pad News – November 2019
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE East Bay Eats (the reincarnation of Sunday Suppers, but under all new sponsorship) has scheduled a fundraiser for St. Mary’s Center to be held at Almond & Oak on Sunday, November 17. When I had the honor of serving on the planning committee for Oakland’s Homeless Connect program, […]
Splash Pad News – October 2019
All the News That Fits SPLASH PAD PARK Splash Pad Park (for the first time in a very long time) is our lead story thanks to this past week’s news about Walter Hood, the Oakland-based landscape architect who designed the park that eventually gave rise to this publication. This article in the Chronicle, on September 21, […]
Splash Pad News – September 2019
All the News That Fits Editor’s Note: A hearty welcome to all our new subscribers – more than twenty in the past month. GRAND AVENUE Collected at Four 32 (432 Santa Clara Avenue) is set to open on Tuesday, September 10. The owner, Anthony Bennett, has over twenty-five years of experience selling antiques and conducting estate sales. […]
Splash Pad News – August 2019
All the News That Fits GRAND AVENUE Boot and Shoe was the subject of a major article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Janelle Bitker on July 10. While the headline was about owners Jen Cremer and Richard Clark changing the restaurant name to “Sister” (following the example of Rico Rivera who renamed Penrose, Almond & Oak), […]
Splash Pad News – July 2019
All the News That Fits EDITOR’S NOTE A hearty welcome to everyone who subscribed in the past month, with a special shout-out to Jack and Kim, my new next-door neighbors. FYI: I told them we’re lucky to live in such a great neighborhood where people are actively involved and there’s a real sense of community. […]