EAST BAY INSOMNIAC

BLONDIE’S PIZZA

2340 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley • 548-1129

SERVING: Pizza

OPEN UNTIL:  2AM (Fri-Sat) • 1:30PM (Sun-Thurs)

PARKING: street

REVIEWS: yelp

OAKS CARD CLUB

4097 San Pablo Abe, Emeryville • 653-4456

You may deduce that at the Oaks Card Club, you can play poker, Pai Gow, and blackjack, but did you know you can also eat hamburgers, Chinese, breakfast, and Hofbrau style sandwiches (but hopefully not at the same time)? Wash it all down with something from the bar. Then go back and blow some more money you don’t even have.

OPEN UNTIL: 24-hours!

PARKING: lot

WEBSITE: Oaks Card Club 

REVIEWS: yelp

LONGS DRUGS

5100 Broadway, Oakland • 654-2569

THE EBI MINI-REVIEW: You can get anything here, anything: food, plants, medicine, clothes, camping gear…Longs fills the deficit left behind by the 24-Hour K-Mart on High Street that’s been gone for years now. Great people-watching at 4AM.

OPEN: 24 Hours! • (pharmacy open til 10PM weekdays, 7PM Sundays)

PARKING: lot

ROOSTER’S ROADHOUSE

1700 Clement Ave, Alameda • 337-9190

STUFF:

• goth kids
• rock-n-roll
• pool tables
• Roy’s kitchen

AMBIENCE: young crowd, smack in the middle of the suburbs

OPEN UNTIL: 2AM
PARKING: street, easy
EBI MINI-REVIEW: Roy makes killer garlic fries, and I mean that literally for all the young vampires.

FROM THEIR MYSPACE PAGE: “ROOSTERS ROADHOUSE is the East Bay’s underground live music hideaway. With a 200 person capacity, full bar, full kitchen menu, phenominal sound and lighting system, outdoor smoking area and plenty of parking, Rooster’s is a great place to enjoy live music ranging from local, to national acts. Dedicated to giving the opportunity to upcoming artists from all genres, and providing a hospitable venue for national shows and promotions. Come out and support your local music scene!”

COLONIAL DONUTS

3318 Lakeshore, Oakland • 893-2503

SERVING:

• donuts
• coffee

Here’s a great snippet from “L. Boogie” on yelp: “You gotta love a donut shop that misspells it’s own name! In 2004, they raised a new sign that read “Coloinal Donuts”. Let me count the ways: They’re always open. The donuts are goooooood. Sometimes they put the wrong donut in my bag, but it’s usually an upgrade from whatever I asked for. Thank you Coloinal Donuts for your “upcoming” movie posters that are always 6 months late, your introspective and stoic homeless patrons, your superficially intense college study groups, and your chess-loving curmudgeons who never seem to make a move.”

OPEN UNTIL: 24 HOURS!

PARKING: street

REVIEWS: yelp