2 Tri-City Restaurants Labeled Best New East Bay Eateries

FREMONT, CA — Eater San Francisco periodically comes up with lists of noteworthy restaurants in the East Bay, and last month published, "16 New Restaurants to Try in the East Bay." Newark and Union City each had a restaurant listed, but Fremont was skipped.

Rolling Snack of Newark was selected for its "real-deal Sichuan-style street food."

The restaurant is in a strip mall adjacent to the Newark 99 Ranch. Eater SF was enthusiastic about "various meat parts either braised in a numbingly spicy master stock (e.g. pig ears, duck heads, and bone-in pork shanks) or fried on a skewer and dusted with a ton of hot spice. Vegetable skewer options are plentiful, too, and at $.60 or $.70 a pop (for the skewers), it's pretty hard to go wrong.

"And for takeout diners looking for a more substantial entree, the spicy stir-fried frog legs appear to be the restaurant's showpiece dish."

You'll find Rolling Snack at 35201 Newark Blvd., Suite F. Their phone number is 510-896-8111.

Tang's Haus of Union City was chosen because a "vast swath of the menu is dedicated to tangs (soups) and stews. Options run the gamut from seolleong tang (beef bone soup) and kkorigom tang (a thicker oxtail soup) to a pork-based version of the crowd favorite spicy-sweet stew known as galbi jjim."

Other Korean favorites on the menu include bibimbap and bulgogi.

Tang's Haus is at 34575 Alvarado-Niles Road. The phone number is 510-431-3205.

The San Francisco publication noted that even though some restaurants closed permanently during the pandemic, "New restaurants have continued to open, many of them tailored for this particular moment, with takeout-friendly menus and spacious patios. The East Bay, in particular, has seen an influx of exciting new restaurants — mostly unfussy, relatively affordable places that show off the breadth and depth of the region’s varied cuisines."

The majority of highlighted restaurants are in Oakland and Berkeley, but in addition to those in Union City and Newark, restaurants in Castro Valley and Hayward also received recognition.

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