{"id":393763,"date":"2026-07-10T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393763\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:15:13","slug":"oakland-june-openings-highlighted-by-guatemalan-hot-dogs-korean-noodle-soup-2-sports-bars-and-the-return-of-reems-and-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393763\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland June openings highlighted by Guatemalan hot dogs, Korean noodle soup, 2 sports bars, and the return of Reem’s and Millennium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0Nosh<\/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.\u00a0The openings and closings for each month are then compiled into a round-up.\u00a0Have a tip for Nosh?\u00a0Submit it here<\/a>.\u00a0Subscribing to the\u00a0Nosh 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

Alameda restaurant openings<\/p>\n

MIX Bar <\/p>\n

05.05.26:\u00a0A new cocktail bar focusing on mixed drinks and live DJs soft opened in Alameda. The menu includes drinks like a pandan old fashioned and a Sonrisa bourbon-based drink with calamansi and egg white. MIX Bar is run by some of the same folks behind the popular Somar Bar in Uptown Oakland, which closed about three years ago after a long stint in the neighborhood. MIX Bar\u2019s\u00a0grand opening is Thursday, May 7<\/a>.\u00a0MIX Bar<\/a>,\u00a02320 1\/2 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda\u00a0<\/p>\n

Berkeley restaurant openings<\/p>\n

ChaHalo<\/p>\n

06.02.26: A\u00a0new milk tea spot<\/a>\u00a0has opened in Berkeley. ChaHalo is a chain from Xi\u2019an, China, serving teas made from freshly steeped tea leaves (versus powder mixes). One of its signature drinks is the osmanthus oolong milk tea.\u00a0ChaHalo<\/a>, 2041 University Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

06.23.26: Fourth Street in Berkeley has officially welcomed the new modern Turkish restaurant Divan, which soft opened on June 22. For now Divan is focusing on lunch service only, but expects to open for dinner service in the coming weeks. The menu features Turkish breakfasts, mezze platters, freshly baked flatbreads, and a variety of Mediterranean-inspired sandwiches and kebabs.\u00a0Divan<\/a>, 1788 Fourth St., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Dropo Sushi <\/p>\n

06.09.26: A new sushi shop has opened in downtown Berkeley that sells ready-made sushi boxes and also halo-halo, the colorful Filipino shaved ice dessert. Dropo Sushi is in the former location of\u00a0Pink Cloud & Tea<\/a>. The owners are of\u00a0Tibetan and Filipino descent<\/a>\u00a0and say they opened the shop to \u201cprovide, healthy, fresh and reliable service to the community.\u201d\u00a0Dropo Sushi<\/a>, 2107 addison St., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Glom Thai<\/p>\n

06.02.26:\u00a0A new Thai spot has opened in Berkeley. Glom Thai recently\u00a0soft opened<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0a menu\u00a0<\/a>of small plates, charcoal grilled dishes, whole fish, vegetarian dishes, and curries. Glom is in the\u00a0former location of Sistory Thai<\/a>.\u00a0Glom Thai<\/a>, 1233 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Gurkha Kitchen Express<\/p>\n

06.02.26: A Nepali restaurant has opened in Berkeley, serving momos (dumplings), other Nepali dishes, and Indian cuisine. Gurkha has other locations in the Bay Area, including in Hayward, San Jose, and San Ramon.\u00a0Gurkha Kitchen Express<\/a>, 2493 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Hopkins Cafe<\/p>\n

06.02.26:\u00a0Hopkins Cafe is now open, in the former Espresso Roma space in North Berkeley. Its menu<\/a> includes espresso drinks, juices, omelettes, bagels, salads, sandwiches, burgers, and milkshakes.\u00a0Hopkins Cafe<\/a>, 1549 Hopkins St., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Mile Limit<\/p>\n

06.30.26: Berkeley Wine Shop Mile Limit, from Sergio Monle\u00f3n and Emily Sarlatte (the team behind La Marcha), is expanding into a wine bar and vinyl lounge. The lounge soft opens July 1 and will grand open the weekend of July 24. The menu will include wines by the glass, cheeseboards, housemade tins, crudos, anchovy butter toast, pastries, escabeches, and with DJ\u2019s spinning records. Monle\u00f3n shared with NOSH that the opening food menu will also include oysters with Shared Cultures\u2019 miso-citrus mignonette, crudo with citrus and chili oil, burrata with seasonal fruit and saba, anchovy butter toast, p\u00e2t\u00e9, and sardines. There will be a $1 oyster special on Fridays during happy hour.\u00a0Mile Limit<\/a>, 2040 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Oakberry Acai<\/p>\n

06.30.26:\u00a0The global acai chain, Oakberry Acai, is now open on University Avenue in downtown Berkeley. Oakberry serves build-your-own acai bowls, smoothies, and snacks.\u00a0Oakberry Acai<\/a>, 2121 University Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

06.23.26: On June 19, a new high-protein, low-calorie, no-added-sugar ice cream shop debuted in the Epicurious Garden. It offers flavors like mint chip, coconut mango, double dutch chocolate and strawberry with added fiber and prebiotics.\u00a0Serotonin Scoops<\/a>, Epicurious Garden, 1511 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Ten Seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles<\/p>\n

06.09.26:\u00a0The story goes that a man was studying for his imperial exams during the Qing Dynasty on a small island off of Yunnan Province in China. His wife wanted to bring him a hot meal, and carried a hot broth with a layer of chicken fat on the top to keep it warm.\u00a0Guo qiao mi xian<\/a>(crossing-the-bridge noodles) was thus invented and is now a well-known, regional dish. Ten Seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles, which appears to be a part of a\u00a0larger chain<\/a>, just opened a location in downtown Berkeley.\u00a0Ten Seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles<\/a>, 2014 Kala Bagai Wy., Berkeley<\/p>\n

Castro Valley restaurant opening<\/p>\n

06.23.26: Castro Valley has a new branch of Urban Matcha that is currently in its soft opening phase. Urban Match was founded in Las Vegas, and has expanded into California with a location in San Diego and now its first Northern California cafe. In addition to matcha, the menu includes hojicha, and the ice cream, sponge cakes, waffle cones, and adzuki bean toppings, are all made in-house.\u00a0Urban Matcha<\/a>, 3311 Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley<\/p>\n

El Cerrito restaurant opening<\/p>\n

06.23.26: Thanks to Nosh reader Kevin for the tip that Super Slice Pizza in El Cerrito has been quickly revamped into the new Miles Pizza Slice. The restaurants offer 18-inch takeout whole pizzas in addition to giant slices from 24-inch pies that are designed to be an \u201centire meal.\u201d The pizzas are made with 48-hour, cold-fermented dough made with Keith Giusto Baking Supplies flours.\u00a0Miles Pizza Slice<\/a>, 10180 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oakland restaurant openings <\/p>\n

06.23.26: The newest tenant at Swan\u2019s Market is an offshoot of Burmese restaurants\u00a0Aung Burma<\/a>\u00a0in Concord and Aung MayLiKa in Benicia. The restaurant kicked off its soft opening June 12 and held a grand opening on June 17. The menu includes tea leaf salad, garlic noodles, coconut curry chicken noodle soup, samosas and more.\u00a0Aung Myanmar<\/a>, 542B 9th Street Oakland, CA<\/p>\n

El Barrio<\/p>\n

06.30.26: From the team behind\u00a0Xingones<\/a>\u00a0comes El Barrio, a new sports bar in Old Oakland \u2014\u00a0in the original Old Oakland location of\u00a0Xingones<\/a>. The corner restaurant has had a facelift and opened to the public Tuesday, June 30, in time to catch the final weeks of the World Cup. The\u00a0menu<\/a>\u00a0features bar bites, such as wings and tacos, burritos, and drinks.\u00a0El Barrio<\/a>, 736 Washington St., Oakland<\/p>\n

06.09.26: Actress and healthy living advocate Gwyneth Paltrow has been expanding her clean-eating pick-up and delivery meal company in the Bay Area, and the first East Bay location launched June 9. Everything on the menu, including loaded salads, chicken teriyaki bowls and salmon bento boxes, is made without gluten, seed oils, processed additives, refined sugars, or corn. The company has billed the new branch as \u201cBerkeley\u201d but it is operating out of the Adeline Food Hall in Oakland with delivery service to Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville available Monday through Saturday. Paltrow started goop as a newsletter in 2008 and goop kitchen launched in 2021, with additional Bay Area locations in San Francisco, San Jose and Sunnyvale.\u00a0Nosh tried<\/a> some of the most popular goop dishes, asked why the \u201cBerkeley\u201d location wound up in Oakland, and ran down some of Paltrow\u2019s recent controversies. goop kitchen<\/a>, Adeline Food Hall, 5333 Adeline St., Oakland<\/p>\n

Jjamppong Zizon<\/p>\n

06.30.26: The popular South Korean chain,\u00a0Jjamppong Zizon<\/a>, has arrived in the East Bay. The Oakland location on Broadway serves the spicy famous seafood noodle soup along with Korean jjajangmyeon, a black bean sauce noodles. A location is also coming soon to Hayward.\u00a0Jjamppong Zizon<\/a>, 3905 Broadway, Oakland<\/p>\n

06.23.26: Popular plant-based Rockridge restaurant Millennium returned to action on June 17 after a brief closure. The restaurant is open Wednesday through Saturday for prix fixe dinners on the patio and \u00e0 la carte dining at the bar, plus walk-in indoor seating with self-seating and ordering. Starting in July, there are plans to bring back the Tuesday pizza program.\u00a0Millennium<\/a>, 5912 College Ave., Oakland\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oakland Athletic Club<\/p>\n

06.09.26: A group of local Oaklanders are breathing new life into the shuttered former location of the Athletic Club of Oakland,\u00a0which closed in February<\/a>. The newly renamed Oakland Athletic Club opened on June 1.\u00a0Read the full scoop<\/a>\u00a0from NOSH.\u00a0Oakland Athletic Club<\/a>, 59 Grand Ave., Oakland<\/p>\n

Paulina\u2019s Cafecitos<\/p>\n

06.30.26: A new cafe has opened near the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland. The Latina-owned shop, close to Fremont High, serves espresso drinks such as a banana cold foam latte and an horchata latte, matcha drinks, and lemonades.\u00a0Paulina\u2019s Cafecitos<\/a>, 4200 Foothill Blvd., Oakland<\/p>\n

Reem\u2019s Jack London Square<\/p>\n

06.30.26: The highly-anticipated Palestinian-Californian bakery and restaurant by Reem Assil has\u00a0opened in Jack London Square<\/a>. This is a homecoming of sorts, as Reem\u2019s first opened as a brick-and-mortar in the Fruitvale neighborhood in 2017 and was also a vendor at the Old Oakland farmer\u2019s market. Reem\u2019s in Jack London Square is in the former Miette location and features a team of worker-owners. The menu includes signature wraps, such as a sumac chicken wrap, grab-and-go items, and coffee, tea, and other housemade drinks.\u00a0Reem\u2019s<\/a>, 85 Webster St., Oakland<\/p>\n

06.09.26: A popular Guatemalan food stand that has operated for years in Fruitvale has opened its first brick-and-mortar location in the Oakland neighborhood. Shucos Magi, owned and operated by Maria Rodas, who is known as Magi, and her family, is open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday except Tuesday, serving a full menu of Guatemalan and Mexican fare including signature shucos (loaded hot dogs), mulitas, tacos, quesabirria and more.\u00a0Shucos Magi<\/a>, 3329 Foothill Blvd., Oakland<\/p>\n

06.23.26: A new market has opened in the ground floor of the Ms. Margaret Gordon West Port affordable housing community from the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation. The market sells household products, hygiene items, fresh fruits and vegetables, packaged foods, beverages and more.\u00a0Urban Go<\/a>, 2201 Brush St., Oakland<\/p>\n

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