Oakland, California, was primed and ready to welcome a new wave of Black and Latinx-owned cocktail bars. But COVID-19 threatens to undo the entire movement. (Via EaterSF)
effort, premised on a $75 million renovation of the historic Fox Theater, completed in 2009 under the leadership of Oakland-born developer Phil Tagami.
The phrase, Maynard said back in February, implied the brusque bartenders, unwelcoming attitudes, and long waits often associated with stylized drinking. People of color “can easily feel alienated in that kind of space,” Maynard said — a space that, like “craft culture” generally, is often co-opted by white bodies and white production narratives, as Lauren Michele Jackson.
was in its heyday, and yuppies were engaging in strange new trends like going to goofily hidden cocktail bars and the next day soothing their hangovers with $4 pour-over coffee that takes about thirty-five minutes to produce.” In addition to new threats from COVID-19, BIPOC business owners have long been confronted by racist attitudes that complicate access to capital, especially when it comes to spirits-forward fine dining venues. “The idea of somebody Black having 136 bourbons? No way. That’s not what ‘we’ do,” Michael LeBlanc recalled of the response when he pitched his now-lionized bar-centric restaurant Picán, in 2009.
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