Temescal's Fall Openings Are Sharing Rooms and Starting Over

The storefront at 4869 Telegraph Avenue has had a new name over the door four times. Bowl'd was first. Hanshin Pocha followed, and East Bay Nosh listed it as a new Temescal spot in the spring of 2023. Tuum, a Korean gastropub, took over in July 2026. According to The Oaklandside, Tuum closed after a few months and was "quickly flipped" into a seafood boil restaurant called Oh Crab!, with a Friday, Nov. 6 opening on the calendar.

Across Temescal this fall, the new places are mostly sharing a room, staying for a set period, or trying a second time in a space that already let them down once. The longest-running place in the news is the one getting ready to close.

One address, four concepts

Hanshin Pocha lasted about three years in the space. Tuum lasted a few months. In the same Nosh closings column, The Oaklandside named the seafood boil, together with the smashburger, as what "appears to be the restaurant concept of the moment."

Oh Crab!'s website describes ordering by the pound and by the bag. You choose the sauce and the heat level, with shrimp, crab, crawfish and clams as the main proteins. Next to the boil, the menu lists ramyeon, gambas, garlic noodles, chowder and fried baskets. That mix carries some of the Korean thread from the room's last two tenants. Posted hours are 4 to 11 p.m. every day, and the site shows just this one Oakland location.

That 11 p.m. close puts Oh Crab! among the later kitchens on this part of Telegraph. A table here can follow a show, a late shift, or an evening that started somewhere else on the avenue.

On Broadway, two businesses split one room

At the Broadway end of the neighborhood, the arrangement has a time limit on purpose. Drink Thicc, a smoothie shop, moved out of Uptown and into the former Clove & Hoof space at 4001 Broadway on Sept. 4. Berkeleyside's September openings roundup reported that owner Minni Sandhu plans to stay about a year while a flagship location is built. Drink Thicc usually rotates four smoothies a week. One example is the "blue zone," made with blue spirulina, bananas and pineapple. The bigger Broadway space lets the shop add menu items and keep its core smoothies on the menu permanently.

On the same day, Town Beef debuted in the same room. It is a late-night French dip business that serves locally sourced sandwiches on ACME sourdough rolls, plus a vegan mushroom version.

So one address now serves smoothies during the day and French dips late at night, from two businesses that opened together. If Drink Thicc keeps to its timeline, the smoothie side of that pairing leaves for its flagship sometime around next fall.

A block north, at 4101 Broadway, Egg Palace is planned for the former TrueBurger space. It is the first brick-and-mortar restaurant from the Egg Pals breakfast sandwich pop-up. Berkeleyside reported in August that the plan combines Egg Pals sandwiches and a bigger breakfast and brunch menu with evening burgers, fried chicken sandwiches, bar snacks and cocktails, five days a week. The San Francisco Chronicle reported a target of opening by November.

Put together, those two addresses make this edge of Temescal a place where one storefront serves several meals a day. Egg Palace plans to run from breakfast to cocktails. 4001 Broadway runs from smoothies to late-night sandwiches.

Upstairs gets a second try

On Shattuck, the comeback is a restaurant that opened once already. Upstairs, above Snail Bar at 4935 Shattuck Ave., reopened on Sept. 4. Berkeleyside reported that the venue had opened about a year and a half earlier and was quickly shut down by the city.

For now, the reopening runs on limited hours, Friday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The team's Instagram announcement called it "our soft period" and said they hope to become "a new special addition to the community." A weekend-only daytime schedule makes Upstairs a brunch and lunch stop. That is a different job from the evening crowd Snail Bar serves downstairs. Before planning around the posted hours, check the restaurant's own channels, since a soft period can change on short notice.

The long-running place is the one leaving

Temescal's bigger farewell this season comes from a business that had a long run. Arthur Mac's Tap and Snack, the beer garden and pizza spot named for the nearby MacArthur BART station, opened at 4006 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in 2017. The Oaklandside calls it the original Arthur Mac's and reports that its last day of service is Dec. 20.

The menu covered local craft beer, pizza, wings, salads and soft serve. The brand continues at its Bay Street location in Emeryville and plans a new location in Hayward. For Temescal, that means about six weeks left of a beer garden that has been at this corner for nine years, while several of the neighborhood's newer kitchens are counting their time in months.

What holds steady through the holidays

With so much changing around it, the most dependable thing on the Temescal food calendar is the Sunday market. The Temescal Farmers' Market runs year-round, rain or shine, every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the North Oakland DMV, 5300 Claremont Ave. According to the Urban Village Farmers' Market Association, its markets stay open on the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's weekends, though some vendors may take the day off. That means the market runs Sunday, Nov. 29 and Sunday, Dec. 27, and Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027.

Here is a short calendar of the dated items for the rest of the season:

1. Thursday, Nov. 12, 6 to 9 p.m. Womb House Books hosts a ZYZZYVA release party at 470 49th St., with readings, drinks and light bites. Entry is free, according to the Temescal District event listing.
2. Sunday, Nov. 29, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Temescal Farmers' Market stays open on Thanksgiving weekend.
3. Saturday, Dec. 19, 6 to 9 p.m. Christmas at the Cathedral at Beebe Memorial Cathedral, featuring Jamal Roberts, comedian J-Red and the cathedral's music department, as listed by the Temescal District.
4. Sunday, Dec. 20. Last day of service at Arthur Mac's Tap and Snack, 4006 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

Between those dates, a resident's food week in Temescal has new stops in it. Oh Crab! serves from 4 p.m. daily, Town Beef runs late on Broadway, Upstairs serves weekend brunch over Snail Bar, and the Sunday market goes on as usual. Egg Palace is the one to watch at 4101 Broadway. Drink Thicc plans to stay at 4001 Broadway for about a year.

Sharon Alva and East Bay Digs follow Temescal block by block, including which storefronts change hands and which have stayed put for years. If you want to know how the turnover on Telegraph, Broadway and Shattuck affects the street you live on, get a free neighborhood consultation.