Tanya Holland To Get New Oakland Museum Cafe “Town Fare By Tanya Holland” August 2020

Tanya Holland To Get New Oakland Museum Cafe “Town Fare By Tanya Holland” August 2020

Oakland — The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) announced today that it will partner with celebrated Bay Area chef and restaurateur Tanya Holland, founder of Oakland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen and former Top Chef contestant, to create a new café concept for the Museum: Town Fare by Tanya Holland. The new café is expected to open in August 2020. Part of a significant campus enhancement, which began in September 2019 and is now expected to be completed in early 2021, the renovations are focused on providing an increased number of amenities for visitors and the wider public, including updates to its gardens, improved public access to the campus achieved by creating an entrance along 12th Street, and the new café, which will now feature its own entrance and an ADA accessible ramp along 10th Street.

Tanya Holland will bring Town Fare to OMCA later this year.

In anticipation of the building of the Museum’s garden entrance–which will be redesigned as part of the creation of the new campus entrance facing Oakland’s Lake Merritt–construction fencing will be installed along 10th Street near Fallon and along the 12th Street corridor. Demolition is expected to begin during the first week of March 2020. At the same time, construction will also begin on the new café. The Museum’s galleries remain open during these renovations.

Since work began on the campus in September, landscape architect Walter Hood (Hood Design Studio) and project architect Mark Cavagnero (Mark Cavagnero Associates) have conducted additional assessments of the Museum’s gardens and terraces, in preparation for creating new walkways and public spaces and installing new plantings. In this process, the teams recognized that the irrigation system that runs throughout the terraces–and which dates to the initial construction of the building in 1967-69–was more extensively decayed than expected and must be substantially replaced. As a result, additional time will be needed for completion of the garden plantings on each of the three terrace levels. The lawn area of the Museum’s garden is now scheduled to reopen in August 2020, while the 12th Street entrance is now scheduled to be completed by January 2021. The Museum continues to raise funds for the campus remodel, as well as to support expanded programming and its operating endowment. To date, All In! The Campaign for OMCA has secured gifts and pledges totaling more than 89% of its $85 million goal. via IFTTT