Update: Oakland cafe that invites bicycles inside with their riders
David Nebenzahl
the soon-to-be-opened Actual Cafe in Oakland (corner of Alcatraz and San
Pablo) to allow customers to bring their bikes *inside*, rather than
simply providing outside parking.
Well, I went by today; they're still working on the place. But I could
see that they are indeed prepared to do just what they said. Contrary to
the impression I may have left in my previous message, that one would
simply bop on in and haphazardly stash one's bike in some corner, I
could see that these folks are much smarter than that. In one corner of
the cafe along a wall is a bike rack to store bikes vertically, with
hooks up above and cables at each station for lashing with bungee cords
or the like. Looks very well-thought-out, with space for 11 bikes.
Hey, maybe Caltrain should take a page from their book ...
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David Nebenzahl
> In our last episode I reported on the intentions of the proprietors of
> the soon-to-be-opened Actual Cafe in Oakland (corner of Alcatraz and San
> Pablo) to allow customers to bring their bikes *inside*, rather than
> simply providing outside parking.
>
> Well, I went by today; they're still working on the place. But I could
> see that they are indeed prepared to do just what they said. Contrary to
> the impression I may have left in my previous message, that one would
> simply bop on in and haphazardly stash one's bike in some corner, I
> could see that these folks are much smarter than that. In one corner of
> the cafe along a wall is a bike rack to store bikes vertically, with
> hooks up above and cables at each station for lashing with bungee cords
> or the like. Looks very well-thought-out, with space for 11 bikes.
Update to my update: today I finally made it over there, and got to hang
my bike up on their rack. Nice! They even have a separate entrance door
for bicyclists.
The place is very nice and I highly recommend a visit to anybody in the
vicinity. It's gratifying to see this forlorn stretch of San Pablo Ave.
coming back to life.
cph
> Update to my update: today I finally made it over there, and got to hang
> my bike up on their rack. Nice! They even have a separate entrance door
> for bicyclists.
>
> The place is very nice and I highly recommend a visit to anybody in the
> vicinity. It's gratifying to see this forlorn stretch of San Pablo Ave.
> coming back to life.
How was the food?
David Nebenzahl
Haven't tried it yet. The coffee was good.
David Nebenzahl
to myself*]
So my neighbors tell me that Zeitgeist in the City also invites bicycles
inside. It's on my list of places to visit. (Spozed to be cheap and good
eats, too.)
* Used to be that if you saw someone walking down the street talking to
themselves, you could pretty well assume they were crazy. Nowadays
there's no telling if they're nuts, or talking into a Bluetooth.
They tell me that talking to oneself (which I do) is OK, so long as you
don't reply back.
Stan de SD
wrote:
> On 12/30/2009 6:58 PM cph spake thus:
>
> > On Dec 30, 5:28 pm, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>
> >> Update to my update: today I finally made it over there, and got to hang
> >> my bike up on their rack. Nice! They even have a separate entrance door
> >> for bicyclists.
>
> >> The place is very nice and I highly recommend a visit to anybody in the
> >> vicinity. It's gratifying to see this forlorn stretch of San Pablo Ave.
> >> coming back to life.
>
> > How was the food?
>
> Haven't tried it yet. The coffee was good.
Ah, come on. I know it's the trendy thing to pretend as if you can
tell the difference between good coffee and ground up pieces of brown
plant matter, but who really can tell? The important question is how
are the donuts?