{"id":164351,"date":"2026-02-05T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:12:06","slug":"malibus-is-uptown-oaklands-fast-food-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164351\/","title":{"rendered":"Malibu\u2019s Is Uptown Oakland\u2019s Fast-Food Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/venue\/114173\/malibu-s-burgers-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malibu\u2019s<\/a> owner Darren Preston has kept the Bay Area fed on cheesy plant-based burgers since the original food truck debuted in 2019. Preston\u2019s criss-crossed Northern California <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/2023\/9\/27\/23874135\/malibus-burgers-east-bay-vegan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">experimenting with all kinds<\/a> of fare: plantain-stuffed sandwiches, loaded tots drowned in Hella Hella sauce, and, lately, his first non-vegan items, too. Situated next door to the brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadicbookshop.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nomadic Bookshop<\/a>, Malibu serves a menu as titanic and scintillating as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">A painting of Godzilla eating a burger sits on the wall next to a draping United States flag, photos of adorable dogs and sunglasses-wearing couples by the register. The interior of Malibu\u2019s is, otherwise, somewhat spartan. The finest R&amp;B, including Ginuywine\u2019s very own Hamnet bard contribution \u201cPony,\u201d serenades diners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Order your lunch in advance via <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701644&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Forder.toasttab.com%2Fonline%2Fmalibus-burgers-oakland-uptown-326-23rd-st-unit-d\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toast<\/a> and eat at the restaurant. That said, if you take it with you, make sure to visit Nomadic on the way back to the car \u2014 crack a real, non-digital book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malibu\u2019s owner Darren Preston has kept the Bay Area fed on cheesy plant-based burgers since the original food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[28829,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-164351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}