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Eater
2 days ago
- Business
- Eater
A Major Bay Area Baker Is Finally Returning to Oakland
is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. After a dynamic five years, Reem Assil — the titanic baker and restaurateur behind the eponymous Reem's — is headed back to the Town. She'll open a Reem's outpost at 85 Webster Street in fall 2025, the former 3,000-square-foot home to Timeless Coffee in Jack London Square. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the space will serve a small menu and will be used primarily for production, with windows allowing customers to see bread bakers. The return to Oakland is a long time coming for Assil. The restaurateur's Ferry Building outpost closed in December 2024 after a two-year run. Yes, her Mission Street space is wildly popular, hosting a Sunday Supper series with other local chefs. But when Assil launched in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood in 2017, a fervor erupted for her flatbreads and Arab cooking. 'Jack London Square has always been this, do we take the risk? But I've always believed when you have a good anchor, that place gets really enlivened,' she told the paper. Michelin star-earning restaurateurs head east Rupert and Carrie Blease, the owners of the decade-old (but now closed) Lord Stanley, are teaming up with Tommy Halvorson. He's the former owner of Serpentine's at 2495 Third Street. Now, the San Francisco Chronicle reports all three will take over that location with tasting menu restaurant Wolfsbane. Popular Lord Stanley dishes including onion petals and sherry vinegar may appear on the 10-course menus, but the much more intimate space will highlight seasonal rotations first and foremost. Sunset vegan cafe flipping into breezy taco spot The vacant corner location on Judah Street, last occupied by Beach'n and before that Beachside, is primed for a new tenant. Ruby's will open in late summer 2025 from the husband-and-wife team owners of Mission Rock Resort. The San Francisco Standard reports wraps, salads, tacos, and loads of 'California beach fare' will be menu mainstays. Mission cafe's cutest pet contest heats up Only-in-San Francisco phenom Fayes, the hybrid video store-coffee shop on 18th Street, is in the midst of its annual Cutest Pet Contest. This year's the 27th annual affair, and per an Instagram post, there's still time to submit. Send a 5-by-7-inch photo of your cat or dog to fayescutest@ with name and age by Wednesday, July 23. Eater SF All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Nationally acclaimed bakery is finally returning to Oakland
Five years after leaving Oakland, an acclaimed chef is making her return to the city that jump-started her career. Reem Assil will open an outpost of her eponymous Arab bakery, Reem's, in Jack London Square this fall. It's not far from where Reem's first opened in the Fruitvale neighborhood in 2017 and garnered national attention for its marriage of Arabic and California cooking, as well as its owner's activist streak. Despite closing its original Fruitvale location in 2020, 'we've always kept an Oakland following,' Assil said. 'They're just waiting for us to come back.' The new bakery at 85 Webster St. will become a central hub, fueling Reem's current restaurant in the Mission District and its wholesale retail business selling frozen flatbreads to grocery stores and popular chocolate chip cookies to local cafes. Most of the 3,000-square-foot space, last occupied by Timeless Coffee, will be used for production, with windows to let customers see employees mixing dough and baking flatbreads. A small cafe in the front with limited seating will serve a concise menu of dishes like herb-strewn mana'eesh (flatbreads), dips with impossibly fluffy pita bread, and coffee for lunch and dinner. It will resemble a mostly takeout-focused Reem's that recently closed at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Assil is familiar with Jack London Square — the new space is across from where she once ran modern Arabic restaurant Dyafa — though it comes with new challenges. The waterfront landmark has seen a flurry of post-pandemic closures in recent years, including restaurants and the longtime Waterfront Hotel. 'Jack London Square has always been this, do we take the risk? But I've always believed when you have a good anchor, that place gets really enlivened,' she said. Assil hopes the Oakland space will bring to life her longtime plan to use a central commissary kitchen to open small, kiosk-like outposts of Reem's throughout the Bay Area. A yearslong effort to convert Reem's to worker ownership will also finally materialize. The Oakland bakery will be worker-owned when it opens, and the Mission District Reem's will move to worker ownership. Assil, a former labor organizer, first launched her business through culinary incubator La Cocina. She went on to open Dyafa, a second Reem's in San Francisco and the now-closed Ferry Building outpost. She was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation's outstanding chef award in 2022.
MTV Lebanon
08-02-2025
- Climate
- MTV Lebanon
Watch: Be Cautious of Icy Road
After the easing of the storm Assil, which hit Lebanon for several days, and the drop in temperatures, a layer of ice formed on the roads, especially those at an altitude greater than 800 meters during the night and early morning hours. Watch the attached video for more.
