{"id":329280,"date":"2026-05-23T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:21:09","slug":"oaklands-arizmendi-bakery-is-known-for-pizza-with-salsa-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329280\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland\u2019s Arizmendi Bakery is known for pizza with salsa verde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we share some favorite recent bites, the dishes and snacks and baked goods that didn\u2019t find their way into a full review. Want the list a few days earlier? Sign up for our free newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/newsletters\/bite-curious\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bite Curious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/cafe-bolita-masa-process-berkeley-22261300.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit to Caf\u00e9 Bolita<\/a> in Berkeley to document owner Emmanuel Galvan\u2019s nixtamalization process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sfchronicle_food\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for the Chronicle\u2019s Instagram<\/a>, I zipped across the East Bay to meet restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez for a slice of pizza at Arizmendi Bakery. (I would\u2019ve eaten at Bolita, but it happened to be closed on the day I went!) The first location of the Bay Area bakery cooperative, Arizmendi Oakland was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/movies-tv\/article\/arizmendi-lakeshore-bakery-oakland-zendaya-22194518.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shouted out by Oakland native Zendaya<\/a> as her favorite place to eat in her native city. I ordered the pizza of the day\u00a0\u2014 a roasted potato- and red onion-covered slice with gorgonzola and garlic oil. Since I was in a rush to make my train, Cesar and I sauced up our slices on the trunk of his car. The shop\u2019s herby salsa verde, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/restaurants\/article\/green-sauce-pizza-cheese-board-20154023.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a version of the famous Cheese Board green sauce<\/a>, has a hefty kick thanks to plenty of garlic and serrano chiles. It was just what was needed to brighten up the creaminess of the pizza. I also grabbed some cookie brittle, which, appropriately dry and just short of the crispness of biscotti, was delightful when dipped in milk later that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I finally checked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/top-100\/article\/joodooboo-rising-star-restaurant-21331301.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joodooboo<\/a> in Oakland (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/projects\/2026\/top-100-best-restaurants-san-francisco-bay-area\/#joodooboo-listing\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 14 on our Top 100 list<\/a> this year), and its house-made Korean tofu did not disappoint. I ordered the fried dooboo set, which satisfied with its hyper-seasonal variety of plates and wobbly dooboo. Still, I found myself coveting my companion\u2019s order of acorn noodles. A few bites of the mushroom-filled, nori-flecked dish yielded big flavor and the noodles a pleasing chew. But I did well to order the guava spritz!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each week, we share some favorite recent bites, the dishes and snacks and baked goods that didn\u2019t find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[332,413,143,145,144,412],"class_list":["post-329280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-east-bay","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\/329280","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=329280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}