{"id":191621,"date":"2026-02-24T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:07:08","slug":"2-new-cafes-arrive-to-help-fuel-east-bay-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191621\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new cafes arrive to help fuel East Bay mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/nosh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nosh<\/a>\u00a0covers food and restaurant news across the East Bay, and each week we publish one article covering all the restaurant openings and one article covering closings. Have a tip for Nosh?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/tips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit it here<\/a>.\u00a0Subscribing to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/nosh\/nosh-newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nosh newsletter<\/a>\u00a0is the best way to stay up to date on all of the openings and closings, breaking news, deeper developments, and events in the East Bay food scene.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Drip Co. Cafe<\/p>\n<p>A new coffee shop arrives in West Alameda. Located inside the Storehouse Lofts, a live\/work space, Blue Drip Co. Cafe opened its doors this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUYayGxClxW\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">past Saturday<\/a>. Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedripco.com\/pages\/cafe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serving coffee drinks and Italian sodas<\/a>, the shop also sells <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedripco.com\/collections\/candles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soy candles<\/a> in scents like pineapple passionfruit and white tea, as well as diffusers. <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedripco.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoq1a09jWqAcjVR_oTZ18cUxci3Tayz1XHseahPYa68zYM8z9wZm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Drip Co. Cafe<\/a>, 2350 Saratoga St., Unit 101, Alameda.<\/p>\n<p>Cafe Santana<\/p>\n<p>Cafe Santana, an Oakland cafe and roastery, is opening a second location on MacArthur Boulevard. The cafe has already soft opened; grand opening events on February 28 will include live music, a DJ, local artists and vendors \u2013 and coffee. The cafe also has a home delivery coffee bean subscription service. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUq4zx0EqoG\/?img_index=1&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Santana<\/a>, 2700 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_required_legend\">&#8220;*&#8221; indicates required fields<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/author\/momochang\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Momo-Chang_photo.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMomo Chang is a freelance journalist who writes about food, culture, and social issues. She is the former co-director of Oakland Voices, a project of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/author\/momochang\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Momo Chang\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0Nosh\u00a0covers food and restaurant news across the East Bay, and each week we publish one article covering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6960,143,145,144,2593],"class_list":{"0":"post-191621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-restaurants-and-bars","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-oakland-restaurants-and-bars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621","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=191621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}