‘I am still here’: Oakland restaurant owner explains how he survived a rough 2020
From YouTube Channel: January 1, 2021 at 10:00AM
ONN – Shakewell In Oakland On Lakeshore Av Fights To Stay Open, Owners Tell Laura Anthony Of KGO
KGO’s Laura Anthony covers one of her favorite restaurants in Oakland.
‘I am still here’: Oakland restaurant owner explains how he survived a rough 2020. Through a shelter-in-place order, lockdown and stay-at-home order, Shakewell in Oakland has struggled to stay open. The restaurant has switched from fine dining, to takeout, to outdoor dining, and back to takeout again through the pandemic in California.
Shakewell is also one of my favorite restaurants, and the food and the bar drinks there are among Oakland’s best. Here’s my video from five years ago:
And this one from six years ago:
As a note, there are scores of Oakland Restaurants, many Downtown, that have not done as well, of those who are open, are black and and don’t get what media coverage there is and turn to social media. Chef Smelly on 2430 Broadway is one of those places.
Stay tuned.
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