Eat Real Oakland 2011

The Eat Real foodie festival this weekend in Oakland's Jack London Square mixes the Slow Food movement with street food love. Julia Child would approve. Bon Appetit.

  1. Eat Real Festival is a social venture created to inspire eaters to choose tasty, healthy, good food. Through a vibrant, local festival in Oakland, CA, and a focus on delicious and sustainable "street food," Eat Real puts eaters in contact with the real people -- the farmers, chefs, and producers -- ...
  2. The Square is welcoming hungry from all corners of the Bay Area despite the surprise rainfall.Cuban sandwiches, Hawaiian, tempera beets, goat milk ice cream...No food group has been forgotten.  

  3. RT @gaucho_garcia: Favorite food of the day: @ElPorteno empanadas. Hot, flaky, amazing. Dale Boca! #eatreal t.co/MEJDGNK5
  4. went to the #eatreal festival in Oakland today. ate entirely too much really delicious food #stuffed
  5. Going to #EatReal Festival today. Wanted to ride my bike.... That's not going to happen.
  6. September 23-25, 2011 | Three days jam-packed with awesome curbside eats, food skill demos, hand crafted beers, butchery contests, street food and mor
  7. This is the Ritual Coffee truck at about 2 p.m. Saturday. The line stretched down the lane. 

  8. The Eat Real festival in Jack London Square in Oakland made it surprisingly difficult to eat anything since everything had a 45 minute line. I ended up getting beers in one of my favorite bars, the awesomely earthquake ravaged 'First and Last Chance Saloon' and skipping most of the food ;)
  9. The lines might let up today, Sunday, the last day of the festival. But the rain hasn't dampened some spirits:

  10. Out for a paddle at jack London estuary then @eatreal, anyone else coming out to play
  11. Ah! I'm off at 2 and I want to go to the 'eat real' festival in jack london! Who wants to go with meeee! :)

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Angela Woodall

Angela Woodall, Staff reporter for The Oakland Tribune

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