{"id":296144,"date":"2026-05-02T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:07:17","slug":"montclair-sandwich-shop-shutters-berkeleys-pink-cloud-tea-makes-way-for-new-sushi-spot-and-more-closings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296144\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair sandwich shop shutters, Berkeley&#8217;s Pink Cloud Tea makes way for new sushi spot, and more closings"},"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>Grinders<\/p>\n<p>A local favorite sandwich spot in Oakland has closed. Grinders operated in the Montclair Village for 35 years, a tiny spot that served a variety of no-nonsense sandwiches. Owner Peter York quietly retired, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/04\/28\/eye-on-the-hills-montclair-sandwich-shop-grinders-closes-after-35-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Times<\/a>. Grinders was located at 2069 Antioch Court, Oakland<\/p>\n<p>La Mexicana<\/p>\n<p>La Mexicana restaurant in the Fruitvale neighborhood has reportedly closed. The Bay Area institution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionhispanausa.com\/historias-locales\/la-mexicana-restaurant-seventy-years-of-tradition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened in 1932<\/a>. The sitdown restaurant was known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfGRxs5rP1Y\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handmade tortillas<\/a> and homemade Mexican dishes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/la-mexicana-restaurant-oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Mexicana<\/a> was located at 3930 International Blvd., Oakland\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pink Cloud Tea &amp; More<\/p>\n<p>The tea and snack shop that opened in 2022 and served boba drinks and jianbing has closed. A tipster also notes that it was the only place in town to serve a Korean egg sandwich. There\u2019s a sign on the windows that says a new restaurant, Dropo Sushi, is coming soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/pink-cloud-tea-and-more-berkeley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Cloud Tea &amp; More<\/a> was located at 2107 Addison St., Berkeley<\/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\/05\/Momo-Chang_photo.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\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","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":295979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2436,143,145,144,2593],"class_list":["post-296144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-berkeley-restaurants-and-bars","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-restaurants-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296144","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=296144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}