Hop aboard the Emery Go-Round to visit a new agave bottle shop, a new public park and a cool chocolate factory.
it’s worth venturing a little farther to check out the Bay Street Emeryville shopping mall, which this year debuted two restaurants with Michelin cred.
Flores is a hyperlocal Mexican eatery whose San Francisco counterpart has a Bib Gourmand award. Here, you can chow down on quesadillas de hongos, braised chicken leg in mole negro and ono ceviche, while sipping artfully crafted cocktails. Across the way is Pippal, an Indian restaurant whose Bib-Gourmand sister, Rooh, draws throngs in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The kitchen explores India’s vast landscape in one ambitious menu, featuring dishes like fig and green banana kebabs with chili achar and Kerala Dungeness crab masala.
The Trophy Room “speakeasy” is connected to Tipsy Putt, an indoor mini-golf course with a full bar and sports on the flat screens, so you can order a Harvest Martini or Dead Sea Mule before sinking a hole-in-one.