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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

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

WALGREENS

5055 Telegraph Ave, Oakland • 595-3440 (store) 595-3605 (pharmacy)

If you have a panic attack at 3AM, and the situation only escalates when you discover you’re completely out of Lorezapam, ask a friend (or concerned stranger) to drive you to this wonderful all-night establishment for a refill. You don’t even have to get out of your car: Walgreens offers the convenience of a drive-thru pharmacy–a neurotic’s nirvana. If you do go in the store, pick up some toilet paper and light bulbs. You always run out of those at the worst time too.

Drive-thru dispensary

Walgreens offers crutches and hair extensions in the same aisle because lots of folks break their legs and bust their weaves.

OPEN: 24 HOURS

PARKING: lot

BERKELEY STEAMWORKS BATHHOUSE, SAUNA & GYM

“If it’s illegal outside of Steamworks, it’s illegal inside of Steamworks.”

2107 Fourth St, Berkeley • 845-8992

FEATURES:

• gay sex & cruising in a bathhouse on an unassuming Berkeley block
• gym equipment
• sauna
• rooms with porn and ‘optional sling’
• proximity to the Aquatic Park

OPEN: 24 HOURS!

PARKING: street

WEBSITE: For rates and policies, go to Steamworks Online.