Posts on: Oakland Urban Dining Guide

This week the Oakland Urban Dining Guide visited a Jamaican restaurant called, Sweet Fingers. Technically it was not in Oakland, it’s about 2 or 3 blocks out of the city limits, but for all intents and purposes this place is in Oakland. We arrived at the restaurant at 1030pm and from then until 12am things got a little wild. The Jamaican Jerk Chicken was excellent, so were the crab cakes. We also did a little Jamaican spirits testing, yielding positive results. Enjoy the video

This week the OUDG team went to the Addis Ethiopian Restaurant on Telegraph Ave in North Oakland. This was a real unique experience as it was the first time we had eaten an entire meal devoid of utensils. Fear not, the OUDG team is resourceful and developed the “throw the carpet” technique to consume the Ambrosius cuisine. Highlights included Ethiopian Lager, Kitfo and guest diner Justin Bethune. Hope you enjoy the video. Eating dinner is cool. Eating dinner in Oakland is even cooler.

This week the UODG team went looking for a good dose of Laotian food. This sent us deep into the Avenues of Allendale (East Oakland). While there were some hiccups along the way the final result was quite desirable. The highlights of the evening were definitely the Laotian sausage and the Laotian papaya salad. We highly recommend that you give the Vientian Cafe a shot. Eating dinner is cool. Eating dinner in Oakland is even cooler! Do it!

This is the first episode of our Oakland Urban Dining Guide. Our intention is to sample some of the finest and maybe less recognized cuisines and restaurants in Oakland. In the first episode we visit El Huarache Azteca, a Mexican restuarant in East Oakland that specializes in Oaxacan cuisine. I got the mole, Stepho got the hauraches. They also had great anojitos. Watch the video to learn more and don’t forget to subscribe to our youtube channel.