I expected it to be a temple where diners would worship obsessively tended dough and sauce made from Early Girl tomatoes. I am certain he pretended not to see me waving from the bar.Īfter an hour or so, I slid off the stool and walked over to Forge, the other new addition to Jack London Square. I drank a $12 glass of lagrien red with an $11 appetizer of baby squid covered in a rich red sauce and perched on a small cake made from chickpeas.įormer City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente emerged from the vast dining area in the back.
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A couple next to me at the L-shaped bar courted each other as they quietly sipped cocktails the color of soft sunshine.
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Inside, the new décor is amber, red and black, less bright and brash than it used to be and more alluring. Heat lamps warm tables outside, and at least one comes with a fire pit and lounge chairs.
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But the new restaurateurs seem to understand how to play to the built-in strengths of a harbor. The new restaurants have not solved the problems with the square’s blueprint, which never quite fit the location. 7, several months after the much-anticipated fine-dining Haven restaurant debuted and just a few weeks after the opening of The Forge Pizza, next to Bocanova. The men at the table - one of them Chop Bar’s Chris Pastena - were making plans for the new menu and floor plan, paid for in part by local financier Tom Henderson. Miss Pearl’s days were numbered: The Southern-themed restaurant would be closing in less than two weeks to make way for Lungomare, whose theme would be Italian, specifically from Tuscany and Liguria.
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One of them was Temoor Noor, owner of Oakland’s Grand Tavern gastro pub, who had the heavy-lidded stare of someone who was defying the body’s natural requirement for sleep. OAKLAND - It was a cold December afternoon at Miss Pearl’s Jam House on Jack London Square, and a group of men sat at a long table hunched over laptops.