Filipino businesses in Oakland

Neighborhood café and espresso bar in Old Oakland, founded in 2010 by Penny Baldado, an immigrant from Davao City in the Philippines. Named after the Filipina revolutionary Gabriela Silang, it serves coffee, breakfast and lunch and hosts community events.

Community coffee and tea house in the East Oakland hills run by sisters Annalysa and Arianna Cruz, who draw on their Filipino and CHamoru roots for house-made sauces and drinks. It began as a farmers market pop-up and also rents a small conference room.

Filipino restaurant and bar in Oakland's Temescal district, run by chef-owner Janice Dulce with recipes she learned from her mother and grandmother. A second location, FOB West, is in West Oakland's Prescott Market. It also offers catering.

Family-run Filipino restaurant on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland, known for its G-Fire wings, XL lumpia, adobo and short ribs.

Oakland restaurant of Señor Sisig, the Filipino fusion brand that began as a San Francisco food truck in 2010, co-owned by chef Gil Payumo and Evan Kidera. Near Lake Merritt, it serves sisig burritos, tacos, rice bowls and nachos.

Filipino restaurant at Brooklyn Basin in Oakland, co-owned by chef Alex "Lumpia Chef" Retodo and rapper E-40. It serves traditional and creative lumpia, wings and rice dishes, ships frozen lumpia and caters events.

Woman-owned Filipino kitchen in Oakland run by chefs Jojo and Kai Torres Cansino. It cooks Filipino comfort food for pickup, delivery and catering, including kare-kare, sinigang, sisig and silog plates.

Family-run Filipino diner at 15th and Franklin in downtown Oakland, opened in March 2026. It serves home-style dishes such as pork sisig, kare-kare, pancit and lechon, and stays open late on weekends.

Oakland music school founded by Filipino American educator Heidi Kelly-Tuason, offering children's music classes, piano lessons, preschool music and musical theater. Since closing its Rockridge studio in 2026 it teaches privately and at schools by request.

Oakland-based Filipino history apparel and art brand run by Joe Aquilizan and Aaron Jurell Sarmiento, selling shirts, caps, pins, prints and the Bayani children's book series online and at Filipino community events.