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The Experience, Alameda: Mosley’s Cafe Charcuterie

The Experience:

Charcuterie Boxes to-go. On your patio or on the water!

Taking friends out on the Bay? Hosting a Happy Hour?  Make it easy on yourself and order a Beautiful Charcuterie Box from Mosley’s Café. Email Scott at [email protected] to learn more about choices and to place your order and schedule a pick-up.

Even though Mosley’s closes at 3pm, Charcuterie orders are accepted until 5pm!

Please let them know if you have any allergies.

  • $55 1-2 People
  • $75 2-3 People
  • $100 4-6 People
  • $250 7-10 People

About Mosley’s Cafe

You never know what’s baking in the kitchen down on the water at Mosley’s Cafe. Enjoy a peaceful morning on the dock with your favorite four legged friend in Grand Alameda Harbor. It really is a warm community gathering place, where you feel welcomed. Plus it’s so relaxing when you get to breathe in that fresh sea air. Consider it a wellness break. Seven Seas organic coffee and homemade pastries – heaven! Sandwiches, quiche, oatmeal, granola, avocado toasts, mimosas, beer and wine and more. Fans rave about their Grilled Cheese on Sourdough and they even have Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. With over 40 years in the restaurant and hospitality business, they have a passion for unique experiences with classic comfort. They can’t wait to meet you!

Hours: Tues -Sun 8am – 3pm. 510-263-8228

Where:

2099 Grand Street
Alameda

https://mosleyscafe.com

The Experience, Alameda: The Local Coffee

The Experience:

Get fresh-brewed happiness in a cup!

This is your go-to coffee house in Alameda. Try a cup of cortado (equal parts espresso & steamed milk featured here) with oat milk. It’s a perfect match with a wheat free coconut macaroon..

The Local specializes in hand-crafted pour over coffees, espresso drinks and tea. They offer pastries, cookies, cakes and a simple food menu to complement their beverages. Fans rave about the Andouille sausage wrap with the Breakfast Croissant. And they have fast wi-fi!

Established in 2017. This location has been a coffee house for the past 20+ years. It’s one of the oldest buildings on Park Street, built in 1891 as the original Masonic Temple. The owners are continuing the tradition of ‘small-business coffee on Park Street’! Old fashioned furniture reminiscent of an old library, makes it the perfect ambiance for getting your work done. Hours: Mon – Fri 7:30am – 4pm; Sa/Su – 8:30am – 4pm.

About The Local

A community gathering place in  downtown Alameda, The Local is on the ground floor of the original Masonic Lodge building that has been at the heart of the community for over 130 years. New owner Soco Munkhod  reopened The Local after the pandemic to the delight of the community after it had shuttered in December of 2020. Fans hastily came back with their laptops sipping their Lattes and noshing on tasty pastries and sandwiches in this lovely  historic building.

Where:

1333 Park St
Alameda

https://www.facebook.com/thelocalalameda

The Experience, Alameda: Mosley’s Cafe

The Experience:

Your cafe on the water!

You never know what’s baking in the kitchen down on the water at Mosley’s Cafe. Enjoy a peaceful morning on the dock with your favorite four legged friend in Grand Alameda Harbor. It really is a warm community gathering place, where you feel welcomed. Plus it’s so relaxing when you get to breathe in that fresh sea air. Consider it a wellness break.

Seven Seas organic coffee and homemade pastries – heaven! Sandwiches, quiche, oatmeal, granola, avocado toasts, mimosas, beer and wine and more. Fans rave about their Grilled Cheese on Sourdough and they even have Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches.

With over 40 years in the restaurant and hospitality business, they have a passion for unique experiences with classic comfort. They can’t wait to meet you!

Hours: Tues -Sun 8am – 3pm. 510-263-8228

Where:

2099 Grand Street
Alameda

https://mosleyscafe.com

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The Experience, Alameda: The Local Art Exhibit

The Experience:

Celebrate our Ocean over a cup of your favorite espresso drink!

The ocean is precious and vital to our existence. World Ocean Day was June 8, a day we honor our connection to the ocean and are mindful of what more we can do to protect it. All through the month of June and throughout the summer, the Local celebrates our World Ocean with the “One Of Many Tales” underwater photography exhibit showcasing our oceans’ breathtaking beauty and fragility.

Local photographers, Manuel C. and Andra I. are traveling the world and sharing their adventures and the beauty of our natural world. Drop into The Local and view the exhibit, which will be up until September. And have your favorite drink while you peruse these photographs highlighting our majestic yet vulnerable oceans.

Besides all the wonderful espresso drinks, teas, wine and beer, they have an evolving menu of Breakfast pastries and sandwiches, lots of Lunch salads including a Nicosia, and gourmet Lunch sandwiches. Do try their Salami Provolone  – salami, provolone cheese, pesto and tomato on Baguette!

About The Local

A community gathering place in  downtown Alameda, The Local is on the ground floor of the original Masonic Lodge building that has been at the heart of the community for over 130 years. New owner Soco Munkhod  reopened The Local after the pandemic to the delight of the community after it had shuttered in December of 2020. Fans hastily came back with their laptops sipping their Lattes and noshing on tasty pastries and sandwiches in this lovely  historic building.

Current Hours: M-F 7:30am-5pm; Sa/Su 8:30am- 4pm.  (510) 347-8388

Where:

1333 Park St
Alameda

https://www.facebook.com/thelocalalameda

Feel Good at this Bakery

img_2155boatOn their way down the coast to the warm shores of Baja California, Georgina and Joel Peterson returned to one of their old haunts – Alameda on the Bay. And this time, it was by boat. They motored down from Seattle, having to take two days shelter at one point during a turbulent storm, and finally arrived and tied up at a guest berth off the Nob Hill parking lot near Alameda’s Fruitvale Bridge. (Always a good policy to tie up next to a gourmet market!) It had been years since they last lived in Alameda, so much of the city was new to them.

img_2236breadWhen asked if they had discovered a restaurant they really liked, Georgina immediately said, “I found Feel Good Bakery. They have great bread and pastries!” So we sauntered down to both bakeries, one in the Alameda Marketplace on Park and the other in Encinal Shopping Center on Encinal at High. Feel Good Bakery’s sourdough bread has been a highlight of the Petersons’s stay in Alameda.

Besides their classic European-style breads and sourdoughs, Feel Good Bakery makes three pizzas daily, one for everyone – cheese, img_2230pizzavegetarian and pepperoni. Their Holiday Stollen is excellent – not too sweet and perfectly spiced.  For those who love sweets, there are Danish with fresh fruit, cupcakes, cakes, tarts and cookies. They bake muffins and scones and even cheese sticks that change daily.  Feel Good Bakery bakes with organic locally-sourced ingredients, all non-GMO. Flour, nuts, fruit and cheeses come from local vendors who also are committed to producing the highest quality product they can.

img_2232andy-gina Andy Manakitivipart has been working for Feel  Good Bakery since Aug. 2016 and splits his time between the two stores.  “I do cashiering and pastries and am enrolled in a two year certification program in Baking at Laney College.” What inspired Andy to start baking? “I used to work at Tucker’s Ice Cream and Henry was a baker and he got me into baking.”

Jessica Perez, on the other hand, is currently a full-time retail associate. She img_2237jessicaworks at both stores also, explaining that it works best for the company that employees understand how both bakery locations operate.   “On my down time I hang with the bakers. I like to shape the dough. But it is really hard! The great thing about working here is that you don’t have to stay in one job. If you want to learn something else, you can.” Jessica seems to love her job and has been here for two years.

General Manager Julien Wagner chimed in, “We proudly employ 58 people.  I think they appreciate that we value them as much as our customers.  We value their opinions and suggestions for making the bakery a better place to work and a better place to shop.” Feel Good Bakery takes pride in using only the best, natural and locally sourced ingredients.  “Since everything is made by hand it has that human touch you rarely find anymore.”

Upon completion of his schooling, Julien traveled and then worked at Delfina in San Francisco as pastry chef. Wanting to get back into baking breads, Julien started working at Feel Good Bakery in October of 2007. “I was immediately drawn to the intimacy of the bakery, the quality of the ingredients and owner Rick Kellner’s respect of boulangerie tradition. Feel Good Bakery has given me the opportunity to explore, learn and develop my passion as a baker. I’ve loved bakeries since I was a boy growing up in Paris.  I’ve always loved the smell and the sounds of the bakery. The sweet smell of the baguettes baking or the crackling of the crust as they cool on the rack.  The buttery chocolaty smells of the chocolate croissants.  These are the things that awaken childhood memories and for just that moment I can be transported back in time to relive that joy.”

They make over 300 loaves a day during the week and as many as 650 on Saturdays. Their Farmers Market locations are on their website. If you follow them on their social media, you can take advantage of all the sales and deals.img_2235scrap-dough

On our way out, we learned another interesting thing about this bakery. Raw dough cannot be tossed into the garbage as it may explode due to the yeast. So scraps of overworked dough are rolled together and baked in the oven before disposal. Excess food is donated to homeless shelters and the company focuses on waste reduction, recycling and composting whatever cannot be donated.

Store Hours for Feel Good Bakery:

1650 Park St., Alameda Marketplace 510-864-2733

Monday – Friday: 7am – 8pm
Saturday: 8am – 8pm
Sunday: 8am – 7pm

3215 Encinal Ave., Encinal Shopping Center 510-263-9439

Monday – Friday: 7am – 8pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8am – 8 pm

Seasonal Special Fruit Tart

Seasonal Special Fruit Tart

How Feel Good Bakery came about

Rick Kellner moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and realized that though there were lots of excellent bakeries, no one seemed to be baking small-batch, hand-crafted, European-style breads. So in 2002 he started baking in his apartment in San Francisco and in 2004 opened Feel Good Bakery on Park St. in Alameda’s Marketplace. He opened his second location in 2016 in the Encinal Shopping Center.

The Petersons will be thinking of their bakery find as they continue down the coast with a freezer full of Feel Good Bakery breads. And bags of their crostini.

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