{"id":498298,"date":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:44:08","slug":"a-perfect-sunday-starts-at-alems-coffee-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498298\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Sunday Starts at Alem\u2019s Coffee in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">I\u2019m partial to the Temescal Farmers Market on Sunday. Or at least, it thrills me to find myself in that parking lot for a reason other than having to renew my license. But an even bigger draw has come from finding myself, time and time again, on the shaded patio of this wonderful little coffee shop with a big steaming bowl of shihan ful in front of me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">Coffee. Here, it\u2019s taken very seriously, but not pretentiously so. Their beans, proudly displayed in mounted canisters behind the bar, are fair-trade and ethically sourced. And the brew here is strong \u2014 strong enough to stand up to the punchy spices found on the food menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">If a visit to the DMV is in your future, make the appointment at the Temescal location, and reward yourself before or afterwards with a home-cooked meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m partial to the Temescal Farmers Market on Sunday. Or at least, it thrills me to find myself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[28829,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-498298","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\/498298","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=498298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}