Northern Cali

Alba
Northern Cali

Favorite restaurants & other fun to-do things

We love TJ! amazing prices and a great grocery selection.
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Trader Joe's
225 El Cerrito Plaza
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We love TJ! amazing prices and a great grocery selection.
A local and great coffee shop!
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Peet's Coffee
2124 Vine St
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A local and great coffee shop!
Very reasonably prices and so close from our Richmond home!
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99 Ranch Market
3288 Pierce Street
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Very reasonably prices and so close from our Richmond home!
El Mono is a fave of mine. Really wonderful Peruvian cousine. Check out their brunch and is only a few mins drive from our Richmond home.
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El Mono | Fresh Flavors of Peru
11720 San Pablo Avenue
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El Mono is a fave of mine. Really wonderful Peruvian cousine. Check out their brunch and is only a few mins drive from our Richmond home.
Make a point to visit this place. Amazing local brewery, kids friendly, too!
Ocean View Brew Works
627 San Pablo Ave
Make a point to visit this place. Amazing local brewery, kids friendly, too!
Fantastic upscale food. Love it!
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Juanita & Maude
825 San Pablo Ave
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Fantastic upscale food. Love it!
Mi kids and I love Tilden park. There is so much to see and feel in nature.
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Tilden Regional Park
2501 Grizzly Peak Blvd
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Mi kids and I love Tilden park. There is so much to see and feel in nature.
One of the most-go museums in SF
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Iziko Lomuzi Wamazwe Asiya
200 Larkin St
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One of the most-go museums in SF
Check out their night activities! So much fun!
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Academy Of Sciences station
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Check out their night activities! So much fun!
Fresh and high quality seafood? Tokio fish market would be the answer.
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Tokyo Fish Market
1220 San Pablo Ave
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Fresh and high quality seafood? Tokio fish market would be the answer.
Bubba drinks...yummy and walking distance from our Richmond home.
Tala Coffee & Tea
10734 San Pablo Ave
Bubba drinks...yummy and walking distance from our Richmond home.
I love treasure hunting. Who knows what GW has for you.
Goodwill
6624 San Pablo Ave
I love treasure hunting. Who knows what GW has for you.
There is live music on one Friday of the month !
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I-Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St
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There is live music on one Friday of the month !
Love, love their breakfast!
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La Note
2377 Shattuck Ave
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Love, love their breakfast!
Love their Mexican food.
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Tacubaya
1782 Fourth St
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Love their Mexican food.
The best tapas-style food in the Bay!
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La Marcha Tapas Bar
2026 San Pablo Ave
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The best tapas-style food in the Bay!
Great Mexican grocery selection.
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Mi Tierra Foods
2082 San Pablo Ave
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Great Mexican grocery selection.
If you are a mole lover, this is the place! Enjoy a beer in the outside.
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Los Moles Beer Garden
6120 Potrero Ave
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If you are a mole lover, this is the place! Enjoy a beer in the outside.
A fantastic selection of Spanish food and amazing wines! plus distance from Richmond home is only 5-7 mins drive.
The Spanish Table
1814 San Pablo Ave
A fantastic selection of Spanish food and amazing wines! plus distance from Richmond home is only 5-7 mins drive.
This place have save me so many times in terms of grabbing a yummy bit to eat and/to get high quality groceries. Plus, is pretty much a 2 mins drive from our Richmond home.
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El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company
10367 San Pablo Ave
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This place have save me so many times in terms of grabbing a yummy bit to eat and/to get high quality groceries. Plus, is pretty much a 2 mins drive from our Richmond home.

Day Trips

Stop and smell the wildflowers at Montara Beach.
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Montara Beach
Cabrillo Hwy
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Stop and smell the wildflowers at Montara Beach.
The site of ancient volcano remains. Beautiful and underrated National park with accessible hiking trails.
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Iphakamisa National Park
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The site of ancient volcano remains. Beautiful and underrated National park with accessible hiking trails.
Check out the town and the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero.
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Pescadero State Beach
Cabrillo Hwy
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Check out the town and the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero.
The largest Spanish mission church in California, Mission San Juan Bautista has offered daily mass since 1797 —prior to shelter-in-place restrictions of course. Really beautiful surroundings. Try the margaritas at Jardines de San Juan Bautista.
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Isikhumbuzo saseMission San Juan Bautista
406 2nd St
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The largest Spanish mission church in California, Mission San Juan Bautista has offered daily mass since 1797 —prior to shelter-in-place restrictions of course. Really beautiful surroundings. Try the margaritas at Jardines de San Juan Bautista.
It's a most-go place. Cali wines!
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Napa Valley
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It's a most-go place. Cali wines!
Nice town with a great beach. Check out the beach and walkboard.
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Santa Cruz
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Nice town with a great beach. Check out the beach and walkboard.
Monterrey has it all. A superb aquarium, beaches, restaurants and nature.
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Monterey
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Monterrey has it all. A superb aquarium, beaches, restaurants and nature.
Wine tasting + nature. Some areas in SR been rebuided after being burn in the 2017 fire. If don't feel for Napa, then SR will do!
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Santa Rosa
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Wine tasting + nature. Some areas in SR been rebuided after being burn in the 2017 fire. If don't feel for Napa, then SR will do!
Yes, yes, yes. I love PR. the town, their beach and the lighthouse. Don't forget to reserve a table at Stellina's!
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Point Reyes Station
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Yes, yes, yes. I love PR. the town, their beach and the lighthouse. Don't forget to reserve a table at Stellina's!
Absolutely breath taking! have a cocktail at Nepente!
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Big Sur
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Absolutely breath taking! have a cocktail at Nepente!
Nice town with galleries, museums, libraries and fairytale cottages. The Scenic Bluff Path runs from surf spot Carmel Beach to bird-rich Carmel River State Beach, with a scuba entry point.
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Carmel ngasentla
San Antonio Avenue
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 Nice town with galleries, museums, libraries and fairytale cottages. The Scenic Bluff Path runs from surf spot Carmel Beach to bird-rich Carmel River State Beach, with a scuba entry point.
Scenic coastal area features a variety of sea animals & wildlife, hiking, diving & a whaling museum.
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Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
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Scenic coastal area features a variety of sea animals & wildlife, hiking, diving & a whaling museum.

Public Laundromats

Great Laundromat if you don’t want to do your laundry -it’s a drop off/pick-up service. It’s located 2-3 blocks away from our home.
Wash & Shop Laundromat
2450 Sacramento St
Wash & Dry

Coffee Shops

Great small unique coffee shops.
Belmo Café