3853 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland 94611
510 655-6004
From Michael Wild, founding owner:
Little things make a large difference in a small restaurant.
We agonize about small details and play with them endlessly, tweaking as we go, discussing
the niceties of the particulars inherent in "getting it right". It's essential that the entrance be
spotless, inviting and have a warm glow to it. Equally essential is that the bar person is
smiling and everyone on the staff says hello to everyone who walks in.
We aren't a deep pocket restaurant, we weren't made perfectly at birth. The restaurant looks nothing today like
it did 20 years ago. The level of style and sophistication has grown with age and relative prosperity, as
we've gotten older and learned to value these things more. We have more resources to more keenly mirror our sensibilities,
to enhance the ease and pleasure of dining here, to refine the look and the service. We want our restaurant to be our own first
restaurant of choice for its spirited, elegant ambiance, its imaginative, tasty food, and its flawlessly
friendly, entirely professional service.
Restaurant staffs with the greatest longevity are motivated by something other than money.
They value the family thing, the quality thing and feeling good about their workplace. In the beginning, we were
four partners. Three of us, myself, Larry Goldman and Michael Phelps have stayed the course for 30 years.
This fact brings stability and focus to the restaurant, a committed family with a common interest in maintaining
standards of excellence, vitality and credibility.
We have long been under the spell of the sensibility articulated by Elizabeth David. Her books are pressed on
every one of our kitchen staff. We expect them to embrace her injunction to cook "with care and skill, regard for
the quality of the materials, without extravagance or pretension". We have few traditions at Bay Wolf but we bring
to our endeavor due regard for quality, joy for the labor and respect for the traditions we find most felicitous.
We're delighted that our restaurant has grown into a meeting place for friends and strangers, a hangout for
artists, a festive space in which to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve, a
home away from home. We want to provide some mortar of soulfulness between the courses. If we don't have
uncompromisingly high standards, it's just a job and we've misjudged our calling.
Lunch:
We present a weekly menu inspired by the best of the
marketplace and a range of Mediterranean styles.
Monday through Friday: 11:30 - 1:45
Dinner:
Executive chef Michael Wild and chef de cuisine Louis Le Gassic
offer a new menu every month, each celebrating the season's prime
ingredients and regional cuisines of the Mediterranean. Whether
we're visiting Provence or Tuscany, Paris or Barcelona, our justly
beloved locally raised duck is always on the menu.
Sunday through Thursday: 5:30 - 9:00
Friday and Saturday: 5:30 - 10:00
Closing times may vary.
Future menus and events:
Wine list:
Michael Wild has created a wine list famous for its selection of
small, hard to find, high quality producers from California, Oregon,
France, Italy and Spain.
Reservations:
Reservations are accepted for lunch and dinner by telephone only.
Reservations for parties of ten or more should be directed to Larry
Goldman. One of our dining room seats a maximum of thirty guests.
This room is available for private rental Sunday through Thursday.
Gift Certificates:
A popular gift for any occasion, gift certificates are available by phone in any amount.
Payment:
Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard and American Express
Bay Wolf Restaurant
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3853 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland 94611
510 655-6004
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