(near Brooklyn), Oakland Leaning Tower of Haddon Hill: 498 Wesley Ave. On the menu these days is an assortment of American classics, like Hawaiian pizza and Niman Ranch meatball sandwiches, plus local beer and wine.
The owners also took over the neighboring pizzeria Leaning Tower in 2014 and have been upping the caliber of the pizzas ever since. Haddon Hill is also laptop-friendly, so you’ll likely see plenty of work-from-homers at any time of day. The espresso is always dialed in and the housemade bread and pastries, well, you can’t beat ’em, at least on this side of the lake. I, for one, feel infinitely more zen after stepping into the tiled and sunny shop. There’s not too much besides houses near Haddon Hill Café, but this semi-isolation is a good thing - the small coffee shop feels like a calm oasis. Haddon Hill Café and Leaning Tower of Haddon Hill Haddon Hill Café in Oakland. Today, we’ll explore the best of the best, eating more than our fair share of noodle soups and digging into a platter (or two) of “garbage bread.” As always, we’ve included a map of all of our picks at the bottom of the page. The neighborhoods starting east of Lake Merritt and moving towards Fruitvale include some of the very best (and some still under-the-radar) restaurants and cafés this city has to over, and they range from fancy coffee shops to no-frills regional Vietnamese restaurants. What do you get when you combine spicy beef noodle soup, boiled crawfish, towering Bloody Marys, fried rice ball salad and some of the finest carnitas in the Bay? East Oakland, that’s what. This week, we head to East Oakland’s neighborhoods stretching from Lake Merritt to Fruitvale.
NOSH’s neighborhood guides explore the best of the rest. There’s more to East Bay dining than Temescal, Rockridge and the Gourmet Ghetto. The patio at Portal, near Lake Merritt in Oakland.
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