{"id":317910,"date":"2026-05-15T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:39:08","slug":"is-this-berkeleys-masa-heaven-i-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317910\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Berkeley\u2019s Masa Heaven? I Think So."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Owner and chef Emmanuel Galvan founded his pop-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolitamasa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bolita Masa<\/a> as a study in masa, using rare heirloom corn varietals to make the doughy foundations for tamales and more. The legions of fans followed faithfully, eating up Galvan\u2019s creations with fervor and ordering masa and tortillas to bring home. Galvan eventually took over the former Standard Fare space in Berkeley, opening Bolita Masa as a permanent restaurant in late February 2025, where the restaurant has continued to earn all sorts of attention for Galvan\u2019s masterful use of masa and seasonal produce. It was so good, I went two days in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Lunch. Yes, they open at 9 a.m., but if diners go right at 11 a.m. (or later) when the menu expands with heartier items, the best of both worlds is available: the roasted eggplant tostada, the carrot masa tamal, and a (likely) very necessary caffeine fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owner and chef Emmanuel Galvan founded his pop-up Bolita Masa as a study in masa, using rare heirloom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[28829,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-317910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-dining-reports","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317910","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=317910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}