Ayesha Curry opens her first retail pop-up store
Ayesha Curry has added another job title to her growing list: retailer.
The celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, TV host and cookware designer opened her first retail store, Homemade, Feb. 2 at Jack London Square in Oakland.
At 11 a.m. today, she’ll hold a celebratory meet-and-greet and cookbook-signing event with fans.
The shop showcases and sells Curry’s eponymous line of cookware and her signature bedding collection, along with a curated assortment of kitchen textiles, home accessories and indoor gardening kits.
While it’s billed as a pop-up shop, Homemade will be around for “an extended run,” according to representatives for Curry and the square. Inaugural hours are 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on
weekends at 423 Water St., near Kincaid’s restaurant.
The shop’s interior was outfitted by Bay Area-based Cost Plus World Market, which also designed Curry’s office in Oakland.
Today’s Curry event is a collaboration with the CUESA farmers market. Details: www.jacklondonsquare.com/events.
South San Jose getting a second In-N-Out Burger
Population-rich South San Jose is getting another In-N-Out Burger.
The new restaurant is expected to open by the end of March at 5590 Cottle Road, at Great Oaks Parkway, according to Paragon Commercial Group and Cushman & Wakefield.
Paragon started working on this project in 2014 to acquire the former parking lot site from a Lowe’s Home Improvement and enter into a ground lease with In-N-Out, a press release said. The ground lease was sold to a private Bay Area buyer for $6.9 million.
The site is located between Lowe’s and Target near IBM’s old Cottle Road campus. This InN-Out
will be less than 4 miles from the other South San Jose location, at 5611 Santa Teresa Blvd. near Blossom Hill Road.
Walnut Creek’s Le Cheval restaurant is closing
Le Cheval, one of the largest Vietnamese restaurants in central Contra Costa County, is closing its doors at the end of February.
A manager at the Oaklandbased, family-run Le Cheval cited high rent and lack of foot traffic as major reasons for shuttering the 4,000-squarefoot restaurant, which sits on North Broadway, a busy street better known for speeding twoway car traffic than foot traffic.
“We’d love to reopen again in Walnut Creek or somewhere else in the area but the rent in this old building is just too high,”
says manager Christine Tran.
Tran also cited maintenance issues with the building, including plumbing and heating and air conditioning.
Walnut Creek diners can find
Le Cheval Vietnamese classics, like pho and vermicelli noodle dishes, at Mangosteen, Vanessa’s and pho shops like Kevin’s Noodle House.
The Le Cheval in Old Oakland,
which has been there since 1985, will remain open.