Oakland Cafe is a small restaurant on N. Craig street just north of Centre Ave that specializes in Mediterranean style food. Their menu includes entrees, sandwiches, salads, hoagies, and pizza. The most expensive entree on the menu is the Shish Kebab at $9.95, (Big chunks of our freshly cut Lamb, Beef or Chicken cooked to perfection served with salad and choice of rice or french fries) followed by Kofta Kebab at $8.95 (Ground and spicy lamb meat cooked on a skewer to perfection served with a salad and choice of rice or french fries.) Salads average around $3.50 to $5.50 and pizzas start at $4.50 for a regular small (10 inch) plus toppings. I have the menu, including descriptions, in text form and can insert it into a message if anyone wants (approx 250 lines). At different times I and several friends had the Kofta Kebab, the chicken salad, and different sandwiches on pita bread including gryos ($3.50.) all have been very good and veggies have been fresh and crisp. French fries are thick sliced and appear to be pan fried rather than deep fried. I usually take food out but whenever I've eaten there with friends the restaurant appeared to be very clean and well lighted. No wheelchair access (steps.) Service has been very good. They also offer delivery in the north Oakland area ($10 minimum I believe.) If you like the type of food from Salims' on Center Ave. then you should like Oakland Cafe's food but where Salim's appears to be a grocery that also preparers gyros, chicken on pita, and meat pies and has a small seating area for customers, Oakland Cafe is a restaurant (about 15 tables) with a larger menu and that also has a small grocery department. Oakland Cafe is set back from the street (I think it is 313 or 315 N. Craig) in the building that Domino's Pizza used to be in, next to the Craig Beer Distributor. Oh and, sorry JJ but despite the "cafe" in the name, this place doesn't make it to your Beer Lover's bar list. They don't serve alcoholic beverages. I assume they took the word "cafe" to mean a place to ead not a place to drink. :-)
Pittsburgh, PA