{"id":304644,"date":"2026-05-07T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:23:13","slug":"oken-a-contemporary-asian-restaurant-in-oakland-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304644\/","title":{"rendered":"Oken, a contemporary Asian restaurant in Oakland, will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restaurant, at 6200\u00a0Claremont Ave. in Oakland\u2019s Rockridge neighborhood, will close on May 31, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/okenoakland\/p\/DYBPqXbGlb_\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Instagram announcement<\/a>. \u201cThe restaurant industry is tough and we are not big on making excuses or elaborate sad stories,\u201d the post reads. \u201cWe will take more time to reassess our situation and examine what our options are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ok partnered with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/ohgane-korean-food-restaurant-21209722.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local Ohgane Korean restaurant group<\/a> to open Oken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/east-bay-new-open-may-20315165.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last May<\/a>. The Rockridge restaurant\u2019s menu combined Korean, Japanese and Southeast Asian influences, with dishes like its takes on chawanmushi\u00a0\u2014 a Japanese steamed egg custard with torched trout belly and cured salmon roe\u00a0\u2014 and jajang Bolognese, with a Cantonese black bean sauce, wagyu, cucumber and daikon kimchi.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, who previously cooked at Palo Alto\u2019s now-closed, Michelin-starred\u00a0Maum and tasting-menu Colombian spot Mago in Oakland, opened Ok\u2019s Deli in 2022. The casual shop became known for his creative sandwiches, such as Sichuan hot chicken on a house-made sesame-seed bun and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/best-dishes-bay-area-18542256.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sisig bolillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant, at 6200\u00a0Claremont Ave. in Oakland\u2019s Rockridge neighborhood, will close on May 31, according to an Instagram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[413,143,145,144,412],"class_list":["post-304644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-food","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304644","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=304644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}