{"id":29662,"date":"2022-03-01T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=29662"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:30:30","slug":"oaktown-spice-shop-solano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/oaktown-spice-shop-solano\/","title":{"rendered":"Oaktown Spice Shop on Solano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29674 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop.png\" alt=\"Oaktown Spice Shop\" width=\"700\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop.png 700w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop-320x203.png 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop-640x407.png 640w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop-348x221.png 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oaktown-Spice-Shop-200x127.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>1224 Solano Ave, Albany<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/berkeley-north-tour\/\"><strong>Berkeley-North DIY Tour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pinch of nibs &amp; a dash of cocoa powder<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4397\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72Store.png\" alt=\"Retail store\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oaktownspiceshop.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oaktown Spice Shop<\/a>,<\/strong> est. in 2011, has 3 SFBA locations. Co-owner John Beaver learned the spice trade from William Penzey Sr., founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penzeys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penzeys<\/a>. Oaktown Spice Shop is primarily known for their extensive array of spices (natch), but do carry some SFBA chocolate, plus some chocolate supplies, such as cacao nibs and 3 types of cocoa powder.<\/p>\n<p>This location opened in 2017.<\/p>\n<h3>SFBA chocolate to look for here:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/endorfin-foods\/\">Endorfin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/coracao-cacoco\/\">Cacoco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/j-street-chocolate\/\">J Street Chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other locations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/oaktown-spice-shop-grand\/\">Grand Ave, Oakland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/oaktown-spice-shop-castro-valley\/\">Castro Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CBTB mentions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/jst-chclt-thx\/\">JST CHCLT THX!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinch of nibs &#038; a dash of cocoa powder, plus some SFBA chocolate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,147,42,146,15,500],"tags":[1468,1411,1410],"class_list":["post-29662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tour-stop-berkeley-north","category-shops","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-tour-stop","tag-listing","tag-oaktown-spice-shop","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40013,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29662\/revisions\/40013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}