berkeley eats digest - october 21
quick weekly food news spotted in and around berkeley. (tips welcome. follow us on instagram if you'd like.)
openings
kat's kitchen has softly opened for breakfast in berkeley's claremont neighborhood, with lunch starting tomorrow and wine bar hours to come. the inviting family-owned restaurant is in the former rick & ann's space at 2922 domingo avenue in berkeley's claremont neighborhood. more on this fresh opening soon.
ramen yama has opened in san pablo.
service updates
after a bereavement closure to mourn the restaurant's founder, kabana pakistani restaurant in berkeley has reopened for dining. please visit and support if you can.
berkeley's taste of the himalayas is closed today for dashain.
broken dreams is now running temple club nights on fridays in downtown oakland.
alert: new opening hours for fikscue in alameda.
special events 🎈
new jazz night at uqbar in berkeley, october 22. 🕶️
three stone hearth's 20th-year celebration, open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony in berkeley is tomorrow, october 22. 👀🎂🍲
the chef's breakfast burger is this week's chow & brau deal at triple rock (post to the memory wall!) in berkeley. 🍳🍔
really enjoying this month's spirited and spiced collabs across the east bay in celebration of 15 years for oaktown spice. 🌶️🧂
plan ahead, ticketed event: inaugural italy, uncorked, with celebratory finger foods and more than 50 wines for tasting at donato & co. in berkeley, november 7. 🇮🇹🍷
psst: never too soon to plan ahead for thanksgiving. 🥧
coming soon 🔮
icymi: openings for both shattuck & butter and the burger fix in north berkeley's epicurious garden have been delayed, stay tuned.
a & y halal grill (no socials yet) preparing to open at 2507 hearst avenue inside the hearst food court in berkeley.
closings
photos from nabolom's final saturday; the line of customers for the elmwood neighborhood bakery ran down the block, and doubled for sunday's closing day service. photos berkeley eats.
nabolom bakery and pizzeria owners julia elliott and sabra stepak outlined the main reasons for their decision to close the 50-year-old berkeley institution this past weekend in a personal statement posted to facebook on october 18. friends since junior high in berkeley, the two frequented nabolom growing up, and took over the bakery, a collective founded in 1976, as private owners soon after the collective dissolved and the bakery faced closure in 2016. according to the post, root causes for the closure of nabolom 2.0 included political backlash online as well as dropped sales due to the venue's progressive and pro-community views (anti-ICE, anti-upzoning in the elmwood), along with financial unsustainability in the current economy. the chronicle was the first to report on the posted reasons for the closure. nabolom was at 2708 russell street in berkeley, and shuttered permanently on october 18.
as predicted, despite the misleading sign in the window, oh g burger and chimmelier in berkeley did not reopen on october 15, and have permanently closed to make way for smish smash.
october 21, 2026 (more changing berkeley, even more updated spooky eats, sports, wings, tips always welcome, thank you.)