Restaurants & Bars
Restaurant Week In Oakland Links International Cuisines To Local Innovation
Chef Nelson infuses his Dominican roots and lessons he learned from cooking with his grandmother and his mother.
March 15, 2024
OAKLAND -- Oakland's Restaurant Week started Thursday night and, for ten days, people will be able to find deals at roughly 160 dining establishments that reflect the diversity of The Town.
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Some may recognize Chef Nelson German from Bravo TV's Top Chef. A Dominican American from New York, he married an Oaklander and has called the city home since 2010. He owns AlaMar and Sobre Mesa. For Chef Nelson, restaurant week has turned into an event he looks forward to every year.
"Honestly, as a chef, we used to hate restaurant week back in the days," Chef Nelson said. "It was time where someone was looking for something too cheap and this and that. People were just too needy but it's not like that any more. It's really a sense of us getting a chance to shine even more."
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