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Understory Oakland

Opens Tuesday at 10:00 AM

Fruitvale, Oakland

🧈"the ube butter is like crack" — order the pandesal
🏆James Beard Emerging Leadership award 2022
💻Cafe hours: work-friendly with free wifi Tue-Fri

A worker-owned cooperative where the kitchen crew cooks comfort food from their heritage: Filipino lumpia, Moroccan kefta, Mexican breakfast tacos. Don't skip the ube butter with pandesal, it's the stuff of obsession. The pay-what-you-can model and cafe hours make it a true community living room.

worker-owned cooperative
pay-what-you-can
POC & queer-owned
vegan-friendly

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