{"id":466603,"date":"2026-09-17T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466603\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:20:34","slug":"itani-takes-the-helm-at-delage-berkeley-gets-another-matcha-option-and-a-coffee-pop-up-lands-on-piedmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466603\/","title":{"rendered":"Itani takes the helm at Delage, Berkeley gets another matcha option, and a coffee pop-up lands on Piedmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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>55 Coffee Co.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new coffee pop-up is now operating at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesaapavenue\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Saap Avenue<\/a> in Oakland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdHqD-WT72f\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">55 Coffee Co.<\/a> serves banh mi, pastries, coffee, and matcha. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdHqD-WT72f\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">55 Coffee Co.<\/a>, 4395 Piedmont Ave., Oakland<\/p>\n<p>Bar Skula<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Oakland\u2019s newest seafood restaurants and bars is now open for lunch service Thursdays through Saturdays. Bar Skula, from the owners of Luka\u2019s Lounge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/2026\/07\/01\/bar-skula-lake-merritt-lukas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted the restaurant in July<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barskula.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Skula<\/a>, 542 Grand Ave., Oakland<\/p>\n<p>Cer\u00e9 Tea<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new matcha tea shop is opening in Berkeley, according to an Instagram announcement. Cer\u00e9 Tea soft opened in the former Happy Lemon in downtown on Saturday. In addition to matcha, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceretea.com\/?location=L69W4TGGP0P66&amp;menu=&amp;item=LRP65PBNU7O6P5JAJL4EDNS3#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the menu<\/a> includes hojicha drinks, blended ube drinks, and coffees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceretea.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cer\u00e9 Tea<\/a>, 2106 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chef Kyle Itani, known for Yonsei Handrolls, Itani Ramen, Itani Sushi, and Hopscotch, is taking over Old Oakland omakase sushi restaurant Delage, which first opened in 2016. Founder, and Itani\u2019s friend, Chikara Ono is spending more time in Japan and has passed on the restaurant to Itani, who has tapped Itani Sushi collaborator Jeremias Jimenez to lead the sushi program at Delage. The restaurant reopens to the public Sept. 16, and reservations are open for the three dining room tables and 10 spots at the sushi bar. Delage offers a $150 eight-course omakase dinner service in addition to an a la carte dinner menu, a lunch menu with a la carte and sets options, and takeout. <a href=\"https:\/\/resy.com\/cities\/san-francisco-ca\/venues\/delage?date=2026-09-16&amp;seats=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delage<\/a>, 536 Ninth St., Oakland<\/p>\n<p>JuXi<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new Cantonese American restaurant has opened in Alameda, and confirmed with Nosh that it is in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcgqBLSAi-s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soft opening phase<\/a>, open Tuesday through Thursday 5 to 9:30 p.m. and Fridays and Saturday 5 to 10 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juxialameda.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JuXi<\/a>, 1231 Park St., Alameda<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_required_legend\">&#8220;*&#8221; indicates required fields<\/p>\n<p>                        \t<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":466604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6960,2436,143,145,144,2593],"class_list":["post-466603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-restaurants-and-bars","tag-berkeley-restaurants-and-bars","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-restaurants-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466603","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=466603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}