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35 years of 📍North Oakland, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
🌿 Authentic + Gluten Free + Vegan
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A huge THANK YOU to the local businesses that helped make our recent Compassion Party fundraiser a huge success:

@abgprojects
@bananayogaco
@bocanovaoakland
@cafecolucci
@lucumakitchenoak
@oaklandunitedbeerworks
@thepunchdown

Show these businesses some love—grab a meal, enjoy a beer or wine, take a class, see a movie, and spread the word. Support these Oakland businesses because they support Oakland! 💪🏾

And to all our amazing volunteers: thank you for giving your time, energy, and heart to bring this celebration to life. The Turquoise Army always shows up! 🩵

#UrbanCompassionProject #Oakland #SupportLocal #CompassionThreads

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“Who’s all gonna be there??” OVER A HUNDRED dedicated, inspiring, and cool AF entrepreneurs! Shout out to our founders circle! (Tagged)🌹 📣📣📣We still have spots to join our Entrepreneurs Retreat and are sending waves of invites each week after you fill out the interest form in our bio 🖤

✨The Built Here Founders Circle is a collective of Oakland entrepreneurs, creatives, and changemakers who challenge the status quo, build bold ideas, and show up for The Town.
These are the people who remind us that Oakland’s greatest resource has always been its people.

This October 21 & 22, we’re bringing everyone together at the 2026 Oakland Entrepreneur Retreat!

📍 Uptown Oakland
📅 October 21 + 22
📝Two days to REST, CONNECT + BE RESOURCED alongside the people shaping Oakland’s future.

FREE to attend but Space is limited. Sign up through the link in our bio! 🔗

Know an Oakland entrepreneur, artist, or founder who belongs in the room? Tag them below. Let’s make sure our people are there.

#BuiltHereOakland #OaklandEntrepreneurs #OaklandEntrepreneurRetreat

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Hi. Ohw’dis here. 🐕🌶️ Let’s get acquainted.

I am a chihuahua.
I love my dad @tacososcar
I am here as your #spicysoiree liaison

No Immigrants No Spice asked me to be your source for everything you need to know about the Spicy Soiree, because of my excellent communication skills and my extremely low bullshit meter. I accepted immediately. (Treats were discussed.)

So here’s the message: there are VERY few dinner tickets left for the Spicy Soiree, and prices go UP TOMORROW.

Some of you have had this in your cart since LAST WEEK. I see you. I see everything. I’m a chihuahua, it’s literally my job. 👀

From now on, I’ll be popping up here with:
📣 Real updates, no fluff
🎟️ Ticket news (I will absolutely be pushy about this)
🍽️ Details on dinner, performances, and the market
🌶️ Anything else you need to know before Saturday, Oct 10 at Merkado, SF

My promise to you: I’ll tell it to you straight, I’ll keep it spicy, and I’ll protect you from FOMO at all costs.

Turn on notifications. Stay close. I’m watching the ticket count so you don’t have to.

🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio. GO. NOW
#spicysoiree #sfevents

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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.

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Some photos I did a while back of @cafecolucci for @calliopearkilic story in @eastbaynosh

The wonderful reporting explores the increases in restaurant expenses as caused by inflation, tariffs and now gas prices by analyzing the ingredients and spices in a single Ethiopian dish served at Café Colucci in Oakland.

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We can pickle that! 🥒✨ Hold on to the last cucumbers of the season and turn ’em into pickles, inspired by Chef Tyler’s dill pickle recipe at our CSA partner site, @thenewparkway! 🥒💚

Want to try it? Slice up your CSA cucumbers, toss with dill, salt + a squeeze of lemon or lime, and boom – that’s a pickle baby! 🥒✨

CSA This Week 🍅🥒✨
🤎 Asian Pears from Paredez Farms
🤎 Broccolini from Lute Farms
🤎 Cucumber from @green.thumb.farms
🤎 Dill from @green.thumb.farms
🤎 Early Girl Tomatoes from @catalanfarm
🤎 Green Thompson Grapes from Paredez Farms
🤎 Rainbow Chard from @green.thumb.farms

💛 EBT/CalFresh customers get 50% off CSA boxes

☀️link in bio to order for pick up and delivery☀️

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You don’t have to be vegan to enjoy this vegan sampler at @cafecolucci. I always get extra misser wot. The best Ethiopian in the Bay Area.

#CafeColucci #EthiopianFood #VeganEats #BayAreaEats #OaklandFoodies #VeganBayArea #EastBayEats #VeganFoodie #OaklandEats #BestEthiopian

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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 🎨

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Pre BIGBANGConcert Activities ✨🖤💛

#bigbang #concert #fypシ

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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 ❤️

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Find us at KQED’s Edible Atlas!

The Edible Atlas is a global street food festival taking over Oakland’s Jack London neighborhood with standout food trucks, street food artisans, live music, a local makers market, and family-friendly fun. Let your taste buds lead you through a world of incredible flavors and cultures that make up our beautiful Bay Area.

We are honored to bring our exhibit “Towards A Greener Future” to the Global Atlas Festival, featuring the people behind the delicious food: Anthony from @popoca.oakland, Daniel from @cafecolucci, Sincere from @tacossincero and Sam and Wenter from @thirdculturebakery. We’ll be sharing food and immigration stories, selling merch, and giving away prizes at our table, so come say hi!

🗓Saturday, September 19 at 12pm
📍Bloc15 / 252 2nd St, Oakland

🔗Sign up at kqed.org/events

#NoImmigrantsNoSpice #BayAreaEats #BayAreaEvents #KQED #OaklandEats A 3x3 grid displaying stories of immigrant and food stories. Text overlayed says The Eat and Learn Experience at The Edible Atlas: KQED’s Global Street Eats Fest. No Immigrants No Spice: A Food Culture Installation. Sept 19, 12pm-5pm, Bloc15 Oakland.

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