Oakland

One of the main cities in the East Bay. Have been here a little bit, but don’t know it too well.

Places

Some places that I’ve been to.

The Crucible (map)

How would you describe this place? A place to learn industrial art? They’ve got classes like welding, woodworking, and blacksmithing, but also things like firebreathing.

I’ve taken a fire eating/fire breathing class here and also a TIG welding class. Learning to do fire breathing was super fun, and I should make a page on that. Learning to do TIG welding was tough, and I suck at it and I definitely should have taken MIG welding instead.

Fun place, but I’ll say you probably don’t want to park your car around here. One of the guys doing the TIG welding class had his car battery stolen out of his truck during class.
The Kon-Tiki (map)

A tiki bar. They’ve got shared fish bowl drinks, a couple of which are literally on fire.
Original Pattern Brewing Company (map)

A brewery. They have decent beer and food.
Drake’s Dealership (map)

Another brewery with pretty good beer.
Seoul Gom Tang (map)

Has Korean soups.
Jaguar Karaoke (map)

Pretty casual karaoke place. Had decent rates and seems to let you bring your own food and drinks in.
Fenton’s Creamery (map)

Pretty well known (and good) ice cream place.
Koreana (map)
Korean supermarket.
Cafe Van Kleef (1621 Telegraph, https://cafevankleef.com/)

Fun dive bar vibe. Greyhounds are $10.

sudo room (map, https://sudoroom.org/)

Last Thursdays of month is Sudo Party. Last Sunday is members meeting, can learn about the space. Tuesday is hardware hacking/fixing, tends to be the most busy, even crowded. Wednesday is radio stuff.
Yoshi’s (map)

Sushi place that also has jazz? Recommended by my dad.
“NIMBY space”

Recommended by my dad’s friend on 2024-09-28.

There’s a lot of Ethiopian food on Telegraph. I need to write down some names of some places.