If you moved to Emeryville even eighteen months ago, your mental map of where to eat is quietly out of date. The Public Market finished its renovation and started swapping tenants. Bay Street got a 44,000-square-foot Japanese grocery. San Pablo picked up a Colombian arepa shop, and one of Telegraph Avenue's most recognizable old chocolate buildings is being courted by a local baker with allergen-friendly cookies.
None of this shows up if you only pass through Emeryville on the way to somewhere else. For residents, the changes are close enough together that a Saturday errand loop looks different than it did last summer. Here is what actually moved.
The food hall you walked through in 2023 has turned over enough that the tenant list is worth rechecking.