Ten East Bay breweries where parents can enjoy local beers while kids are entertained by charming environments. From Berkeley to San Leandro.
Date night: East Bay Parents’ Night Out (PNO)
PNO is a drop-off kid party hosted in which children eat pizza, have dessert, and play with other kids of a similar age until way past their bedtimes.
UniverSoul Circus in Oakland through March 16
If you’ve driven on 880 recently, you may have noticed a circus on the West side of the freeway. It is called UniverSoul Circus and it’s running now through March 16. Old school in it’s commitment to fiery spectacles, animals, and clowns, but modern in its inclusion of Hip Hop culture and world music, UniverSoul {more}
Play all the games at Victory Point Board Game Cafe
Victory Point Board Game Cafe has food, snacks, coffee and 800 different board games to choose from. Pay $5 per person to play it all.
Golden Gate Knights jedi training
If you have any huge Star Wars nerds in your house, you’ll want to consider an afternoon of jedi training for you and your padawan. I had the extremely geeky pleasure of going to the Golden Gate Knights in San Francisco for a afternoon date with my husband. We had a great time trying out {more}
The Blue Angels Ski & Snowboard School = awesome!
Thanks to Blue Angels Ski & Snowboard Program for sponsoring 510Families today! We’re so excited to share their story about this cool way to turn children into snow sport lovers. I wish I was a kid who could learn from the Blue Angels Ski School. Now in its 24th season, the Blue Angels Youth Ski & Snowboard Program {more}
Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival Of Ideas {TICKET GIVEAWAY}
We are so lucky to live in an epicenter of progressive thought. The two-day Berkeleyside event, UNCHARTED: THE BERKELEY FESTIVAL OF IDEAS, underscores that, and a pair of you will get to experience it first hand, gratis! ($345 value!) Uncharted is two days of provocative conversations with some of the world’s edgiest thinkers, including Tim Caulfield, author of “Is {more}
Berkeley Playhouse run of Avenue Q includes a kid-friendly experience
Berkeley Playhouse is presenting the R-rated Broadway show, Avenue Q, from September 17 to October 11. The show’s theme is the transition to adulthood and the realization that the real world is different from the simplified version of life that we all learned about from children’s television programming. While the show features adult language, sexual {more}
Mom’s night out at Pinot’s Palette
Pinot’s Palette in Alameda invited us to their grand opening event — we loved it — and now we’re excited to tell you all about it. This is not a place for the children. Their motto is: “Paint. Drink. Have Fun.” And that’s exactly what you’ll do. You start out with a clean white canvas, and by {more}
Five lunch dates, ME time without a babysitter!
This is the fourth post in our series about ME time, sponsored by domain.ME. And I’m talking about dates! I’ve rounded up some of my go to places for lunch dates in South Berkeley and North Oakland. Once I finish writing today, I’m meeting my husband for a date at La Note. My mouth is already watering for {more}
Parents’ Guide to Oakland’s Jack London Square
Oakland’s Warehouse District has officially transformed into a beautiful sophisticated bustling waterfront with great restaurants, wineries and coffee roasters. Move over San Francisco Embarcadero! Jack London Square (AKA JLS) has become a great place to bring the kids any day of the week for fun and sight-seeing. Where to play for play dates and date nights Jack {more}
Neighborhood favorite: Paisan
I love Paisan pizza in SW Berkeley. Paisan is a high-end pizzeria with the welcoming atmosphere of a neighborhood joint.
{510} Family Faves from This is Oakland
We are excited to tell you that This is Oakland — a gorgeous loveletter of a book to our East Bay metropolis — is now available for purchase. We want to thank co-creator Melissa Davis for sharing her favorites with us today. Melissa lives in Oakland, CA with her husband and three-year-old son, and runs {more}
Westbrae Biergarten for families?
Berkeley has a new beer garden worth a visit. If you frequent the Ohlone Greenway, chances are you’ve biked past the construction site of the Westbrae Biergarten (at Gilman) and wondered of its pending opening. Good news, it’s now open. Better news? I’ve checked it out for you. The Wesbrae Biergarten is an outdoor beer {more}
{510} Family Faves with children’s author, Ben Brunetti
Ben Brunetti is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker/writer/illustrator in the process of writing a series of children’s books and developing preschool TV shows. His first children’s book, Please Share, is a story to help teach toddlers (and his own kids) about sharing and is currently on Kickstarter. We thank him for sharing his Bay Area parenting faves with us today. Who {more}