Located in the Hive, a multiuse complex on Broadway, Calavera is welcoming and friendly-stylish with exposed brick, sky-high ceilings, an open kitchen, and every drink you can likely think of.
Our first dinner on arrival day found us at Calavera Mexican Kitchen and Bar. Not a dealbreaker, but maybe have a look?) (Note to management: Perhaps lose the stylish but too-heavy desk chairs? They’re impossibly uncomfortable, essentially immovable, and all form versus function. Our beautifully furnished, vaguely Mid-Century- designed rooms offered tech and comfort with a cruelly comfortable bed that was bound and determined to keep you there as long as possible. Seems like a small detail, but as we all admittedly travel with too many gadgets, there’s no such thing as too many USB ports. Hyatt’s sparkling signpost of a new Oakland combines “right now” styling, with Beaux-Arts architecture and locally commissioned artworks, with a friendly attitude and beautifully designed rooms, along with plenty of outlets and chargers. We checked into the Kissel Uptown Oakland hotel following the museum. Like the best museums, you can easily lose yourself there for an afternoon, emerging squinting into the sunlight, bursting with knowledge and culture, if you will. The newly renovated 300,000 square-foot Museum’s collections feature a wealth of hands-on tools and interactive features as well as new gathering spaces and program areas. The smart, carefully curated collections run the gamut from railroads to the Gold Rush to the early beginnings of the Hollywood film industry, as well as California’s car culture, in all its incarnations. The museum holds more than 1.9 million objects including landmark artworks, historical artifacts, ethnographic objects, and natural specimens. Opened in 1969, the museum seeks to bring together art, history, and natural sciences under one roof to celebrate the many facets, faces, flaws and fascinations of California. We might have jumped off the ferry into the bay by the third game.īut we began our visit with culture at the award-winning Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). The Giants stomped the Dodgers three games in a row.
As it turned out, that was probably a good thing. While we longed to catch a ferry across the bay to cover the Giants-Dodgers series, we couldn’t make the schedule work. Enough said.Īrriving on a midweek morning, we met our liaison for some shrimp pasta and salad at The Forge Jack London Square across the water from The City-a perfect setting to begin our short week.
We traveled north by Amtrak from Union Station by bus to Bakersfield where we caught a train to Oakland, the last stop on the line. Okay, that’s the last overused Oakland joke. The cheeseburger and burrito.together at last!!!!.It’s likely a cliche, but mention that you’re traveling to the Bay Area to most people, and the answer inevitably comes back, “Oh, I love San Francisco!” Okay, I love San Francisco too, but Oakland, its sister across the bay, has much to offer on its own.įrom a landmark museum, to its own zoo, to a wealth of restaurants of every stripe, we discovered a lot to like there, Gertrude Stein notwithstanding. The coordinates that you can use in navigation applications to get to find Moe’s Southwest Grill quickly are 41.2788153 ,-72.5331226. On the street of West Main Street and street number is 64. Moe’s Southwest Grill is located in Middlesex County of Connecticut state. Results 1 - 6 of 6 restaurants Gracie's Grill ($) American, Grill Clinton Casino Restaurant Clinton CT Fridge Magnet.