{"id":313945,"date":"2026-05-13T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:39:19","slug":"new-addition-to-swans-market-kitava-expands-to-the-east-and-more-openings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313945\/","title":{"rendered":"New addition to Swan\u2019s Market, Kitava expands to the east, and more openings"},"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>Kitava<\/p>\n<p>The Bay area gluten free restaurant chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYFdnpFAWKR\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened its doors in Walnut Creek<\/a> last week. The restaurant sells build-your-own bowls and other dishes. Kitava <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitava.com\/about-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">describes itself<\/a> as a clean restaurant using healthier ingredients, avoiding gluten, dairy, peanuts, and soy. The two other East Bay locations are in North Oakland and Albany. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitava.com\/location\/kitava-walnut-creek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kitava<\/a>, 1699 N California Blvd., Walnut Creek<\/p>\n<p>Neighborhood Sports Club <\/p>\n<p>The new soccer club in Jack London neighborhood will hold its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYDKZU-kuwL\/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grand opening celebration<\/a> on Saturday, May 16. The club includes a cafe in addition to a retail store and soccer field. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodsc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neighborhood Sports Club<\/a>, 100 Second St., Oakland<\/p>\n<p>Zeng\u2019s Family Kitchen<\/p>\n<p>A new kiosk inside Swan\u2019s Market in Old Oakland has opened, taking over the space that formerly housed <a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2024\/10\/01\/huang-cheng-potsticker-new-restaurants-east-bay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huang Cheng Potsticker<\/a>. Zeng\u2019s Family Kitchen recently soft opened, debuting a lunch menu that includes mapo tofu, honey walnut shrimp, and kung pao chicken over rice. The dinner menu has items like vegetarian\/mock chicken, mushu pork, and fish filet in garlic sauce. <a href=\"https:\/\/m.yelp.com\/biz\/zeng-s-family-kitchen-oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zeng\u2019s Family Kitchen<\/a>, 907 Washington St., Ste. H, 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\/05\/1778693959_591_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<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":313946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,2593,32397],"class_list":["post-313945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-restaurants-and-bars","tag-walnut-creek-restaurants-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313945","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=313945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}