Oak Town owner Lou Salerno features wood-fired pizza and other comfort food in the evening, but will no longer be open for breakfast. Murphy will head the kitchen while Shannon Moziak tends the front of the house. GO is in the former Gulf Coast Oyster Bar location. Brother Roger Ham is minding the Grand Avenue store. The lunch menu will offer interesting salads, soups and sandwiches along with more substantial entrees.
Dinner time brings out the steak, fish, and other more involved menu items.
Bahman Tehrani, who owns the Basil Leaf Cafe in Danville and its younger incarnation in Lafayette, has flung open the patio doors for alfresco dining day and night, now that the good weather seems here to stay. The Lafayette 60-seat patio includes a fire pit for warmth, subtle lighting and a bubbling fountain. Tehrani's new large banquet room has already come in handy for graduation parties and other fetes. Mt. Diablo Blvd. Anna Rodriguez, former sous chef under Rosalio Hernandez in Danville, is now chef de cuisine in Lafayette.