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35 years of 📍North Oakland, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
🌿 Authentic + Gluten Free + Vegan
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SF Chronicle Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants — 2 years in a row. 🇪🇹✨

To the team that shows up every single night, our regulars who've been riding with us since the beginning, and the Oakland community that keeps pouring in — this one's for you.

Since 1991. Still cooking the same way. 🙏

Thanks @sfchronicle for the love — and congrats to all the Oakland spots on the list, the Town is well represented! 🖤

#CafeColucci #SFChronicle #Top100 #OaklandEats #ethiopianfood taken in Café Colucci by @cafecolucci

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New Merch Drop | Cafe Colucci X Ethiopia Skate
We’ve partnered with @ethiopiaskate offering decks, shirts and stickers to raise funds used to build skate parks across Ethiopia.

This is our first official collab - designed by @wrdolandia from @mandalastudios and printed by our neighbor @forthrite_printing.

Modeled by Jawan, Faysel, Gabriel & Kayla🛹✨ taken in Café Colucci by @cafecolucci

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A fresh generation of East African entrepreneurs are taking over family-owned businesses and infusing new perspectives into the Bay Area’s new wave of Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurants.

🔗 For the full story, head to the link in @KQEDFood’s bio 😋

✍️: @alan_chazaro by @cafecolucci

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a year ago

Built Here brought their Family Meal to Café Colucci, gathering Oakland entrepreneurs and small business owners around our table for dinner, conversation, and community.

We served a family-style Ethiopian feast with cocktails, mocktails, and a palm wine pairing from our friends at @ikengawines . And everyone left with a @brundospices spice of their own. 🌶️

Built Here’s Family Meals are about connecting local entrepreneurs over a shared meal while supporting local restaurants—something we’re always happy to make room for at our table.

We’re also excited that Daniel Aderaw Yeshiwas has joined Built Here’s inaugural Founders Circle. More to come as Café Colucci + Brundo join them for the Oakland Entrepreneur Retreat later this month. Check the bio @built.here for more info. taken in Café Colucci by @cafecolucci

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ይስከን: Yeskèn: Coffee Ceremony
Tomorrow, Saturday, October 3 | 2–4 pm
Kala Gallery @kalagallery_berkeley

Join us tomorrow for a special presentation of Ainslee Alem Robson’s (@ahhslay) practice, taking place within her installation ይስከን: Yeskèn: Unsettled Grounds, currently on view as part of the exhibition What We Hold.

In Amharic, “yeskèn” refers to the time it takes for coffee grounds to settle at the bottom of the jebena, the clay pot used in the traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. The grounds must settle naturally - the time cannot be rushed. This moment of waiting becomes an invitation to pause, gather, and reflect.

Through the coffee ceremony, Ainslee considers coffee, food, immigrant communities, and community elders as vessels of intergenerational memory - living, unconventional archives that carry histories, stories, and cultural knowledge across generations.

Join us for an afternoon of coffee, conversation, and reflection!

Saturday, October 3, 2–4 pm
Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley
Space is limited. Please RSVP.

The Reception at Cafe Colucci @cafecolucci, 4-6pm

🔗 RSVP via the link in our bio.

Special thanks to the supporters of Kala’s Fellowship Program, including the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts @warholfoundation, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation @wattisfoundation, Meyer Sound @meyersoundlabs, Cafe Colucci and many generous individual donors. taken in Kala Art Institute by @cafecolucci

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16 days ago

Come have an espresso, eat a little something, hang out with us—and help raise some money for Ainslee Alem Robson’s feature documentary Empress Taytu. ☕️

After ይስከን: Yeskèn: Coffee Ceremony at Kala Gallery, we’re heading over to Café Colucci for light bites, espresso martinis (NA option too), good conversation, and a fundraiser for the film.

Empress Taytu is a feature documentary about Cleveland’s first Ethiopian restaurant and its historic namesake in Addis Ababa—moving between the two cities through memory, migration, community, and intertwined histories of resistance.

☕️ Coffee Ceremony @ Kala Gallery
2–4pm

🍸 Reception + Empress Taytu Fundraiser @ Café Colucci
4–6pm

Ticket includes light bites + an espresso martini. Part of the proceeds will support the making of this film.

Space is limited, so grab a spot for both. Links in bio.

Yeskèn is supported by Kala Gallery, Meyer Sound, Café Colucci + Brundo Spice and is part of Nexus Black Art Week. taken in Café Colucci by @cafecolucci

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From the farm to Mandela Partners to the kitchen at Café Colucci. 🌱

The Oaklandside/East Bay Nosh recently took a deep dive into the economics behind Café Colucci’s delicious Vegan Combo — and in doing so told part of a story that Café Colucci and Mandela Partners have been building together for years.

It’s a relationship that connects local farmers, Mandela Partners, Café Colucci, and ultimately the people sitting around our tables.

Mandela works directly with small-scale local farmers, helping connect their produce to communities, restaurants, and businesses across Oakland and the East Bay. Through our longtime partnership, produce from those farmers makes its way through Mandela’s West Oakland distribution center and into Café Colucci’s kitchen, where it becomes part of dishes like the Vegan Combo.

The article looks at what happens when rising costs, fuel prices, global supply chains, and the realities facing small farms all meet on a single plate - and why relationships like these matter even more when the economics get difficult.

We’re grateful to the farmers who grow our food, to the teams at Mandela Partners and Café Colucci who keep that connection moving, and to East Bay Nosh/The Oaklandside for taking the time to trace the story from its source all the way to the plate.

This one goes deep! It’s worth saving to read later or clicking the link in bio for the full interactive experience.

Thanks to @calliopearkilic for researching and writing this. taken in Oakland, California by @cafecolucci

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18 days ago

New mural is completed 🐦 The mural depicts a mother Heron and her offspring flying over the Oakland waterline. Black Crown Herons can grow up to 3 feet tall and are brown until they molt and mature.

Thank you to Yuliya of the Golden Gate Community Association for making this happen!

Also thanks to community partners @cafecolucci @bananayogaco and @themeltedmuscle for their donations and supports 🙏🏻💖

Mural by Elaine Ponce: @backcountry.press 🎨 taken in Golden Gate District by @cafecolucci

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a month ago

@bayabgin is hosting two South African gin tastings this weekend.

Tickets include:
-Guided Gin Tasting - 4 gins built around African botanicals
-Signature Cocktail
-Small Bites from Café Colucci
-Gift from Bayab Gin

And you’ll get to try some of the Baobab fruit that is a core aromatic in all of their gins.

Tickets are $35 | Tastings are 7-9pm | Friday & Saturday
Must be 21+

📸: @toneoliverproductions taken in Oakland, California by @cafecolucci

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Fall flavors are coming to The Caffè! Check out our lineup of returning favorites and Chef Collabs made for the new season. 👇

🍎 Sept 28 - Oct 17 | The Big Apple @chefnel4’s popular fall Chef Collab starts with freshly cut and cored apples, sautéed low and slow with apple pie sugar and ground allspice from our friends at @oaktownspice. The spiced apple purée is blended with creamy oat milk and @mrespressooak Neapolitan Espresso, then topped with a rich coconut cream foam. Available hot or iced.

🎃 All October | The Great Pumpkin Our fall specialty drink starts with a scratch-made sauce of pure pumpkin purée, freshly grated ginger, cinnamon sticks, and nutmeg. It’s paired with a double shot of our signature Neapolitan Espresso and milk. Available hot or iced.

🇪🇹 Oct 26 - Nov 7 | Brundo Spice Mocha Created by @yeshiwas of @brundospices and @cafecolucci, this Chef Collab combines organic cocoa with Brundo’s Berbere Mix, featuring Ethiopian-grown chili, korerima (black cardamom), cinnamon, cloves, fenugreek. It’s finished with black vanilla sea salt and a dusting of korerima. Available hot.

🥜 Nov 2 - 14 | White Choke-late @cheffrancisang of @abacarestaurantsf’s one-of-a-kind Chef Collab blends roasted sunchoke puree, panutsa syrup (a nutty Filipino raw sugar), Valrhona white chocolate, cream cheese, and a hint of orange essence. It’s creamy, rich, and the perfect complement to our coffee. Available hot.

🍠 Nov 16 - 28 | The Bussdown @mik3_w00ds popular fall Chef Collab blends our espresso with roasted sweet potato purée, dark brown sugar, and warming spices from @oaktownspice, allspice, berbere, cinnamon, and a touch of cayenne, It’s topped with marshmallow cream and torched until perfectly toasted. Available hot.

*And* that’s not all! Stay tuned for our pop-up announcements, featuring local chefs and bakeries throughout the season.

We can’t wait to spend fall with you!

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Come check out the mural up close and meet the artist, Elaine Ponce, on Saturday, 9/19 from 12:30-5 🎨

Thank you to Yuliya from the Golden Gate Community Association for getting the grant to make this all possible! Also big love to our neighbors, and the @themeltedmuscle for your donations to get scaffolding placed ❤️ taken in Café Colucci by @cafecolucci

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@eastbayexpress just dropped the Best of the East Bay and we have two reasons to celebrate.

We’re honored to be named Best Vegetarian and Best Dining Value in the East Bay Express Best of the East Bay awards.

For 30+ years, we’ve been sharing the beauty of Ethiopian food and spices in the East Bay. It means a lot to have that recognized.

And congratulations to our fellow category winners @thebutchersson_official and @mamaoakland . We’re in very good company. ❤️

Thank you, East Bay, for continuing to show up hungry. taken in Oakland, California by @cafecolucci

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