Chow - Oakland

A nice addition to Piedmont Avenue. This café, restaurant, grocery store has a lot to offer for a busy area in Oakland. You can buy a cup of coffee and a pastry, or you can sit down to a full menu restaurant service. The salad bar options are of medium size. The grocery options are plentiful for a very small market. They have a good amount to produce. They also have parking, minimal spaces. Overall it has a lot of options for the many people who live, work, and visit Piedmont Avenue area.

Great concept, open airy. Love seeing a working commercial kitchen sharing walk-in space with a supermarket, and vice versa. Prep-cooks mingle with shoppers as they gather ingredients directly from the market to prepare menu items. Found the very sci-fi looking Romanesco broccolli, one of my faves!

Had the steak fries and it was delicious. The food is pricey. But, it's a fun once-in-a- while treat. Also, the grocery section has some delicious-looking treats. Last, they get some hard-to-find beer.

Ambience and decor deserves 5 stars, and so does service. Not everything we tried matches the look and feel of the place or the price. The Steak frites, ok, if you have ever cooked steak, and you serve it medium rare, you should know that you cant cut it into strips right after it’s cooked, it needs to rest. What we got is a full plate of red **** juice and all the fries soaked in it. This is 101 knowledge of serving red meat.

This location is closing which is a shame. Good food and su h and open and inviting space. Plenty of seating and pleasant staff.