Stoloff and partner Michael Dellar, who also owns Lark Creek Inn in Larkspur as well as several other restaurants, opened their first Red Tractor Cafe three years ago in Oakland. So far, it's a small operation in a world of giant chains. For now, he's busy creating menus, overseeing employee hiring and training and even washing dishes when necessary. There's also meatloaf cooked from scratch on the premises along with barbecue sauce and chicken. Side dishes include sweet potato pudding, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, sweet-hot cucumbers, roasted carrots and onions.
Sandwiches come in a wide variety along with meal-sized salads in giant crockery bowls.
Desserts include butterscotch bread pudding and hot fudge sundaes. A house specialty and a proud concoction of Stoloff's is the vegetarian meatloaf. Stoloff himself was a vegetarian for 10 years and developed a knack for creating flavors. Since their opening in Oakland, Stoloff has been surprised by the great number of customers who, noting the red tractors decorating the shelves of the restaurant, have commented that they are tractor collectors. It was through this network of tractor aficionados that he found the large Farm All tractor that sits outside the cafe.