Oakland Restaurant Week is back, bringing diners from across the Bay and beyond to one of the country\u2019s top-rated food destinations.<\/p>\n
More than 135 restaurants are part of the 10-day culinary celebration. 23 of those kitchens are led by women chefs many are also owners; these chefs said is growing in a male dominated field.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exposure. So, where a lot of people may not have tried you before, now they are hyper focused on enjoying restaurant week and enjoying different restaurants,\u201d Chef Michele McQueen said.<\/p>\n
Visit Oakland said Restaurant Week typically drives about a 5% increase in dining momentum that helps fuel business year-round. This year, they\u2019re aiming to double that growth. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oakland Restaurant Week runs through March 22.<\/p>\n
Velena Jones has more in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Restaurant Week is back, bringing diners from across the Bay and beyond to one of the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-219002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002","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=219002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}