34077 Tue Feb 01 00:49:06 -0800 2005 12 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 153419 Has anyone tried the offerings at Your Black Muslim Bakery? What's the scene like? I don't fit those categories in their name one bit, but I like SOUL food. Dying for a hot fish sandwich. Suggestions? Do they have sheet cake? In DC, all the soul food places have ultra sinful sheet cake. Not sure if YBMB is quite like that, though. Tue Feb 01 00:49:06 -0800 2005 0 soulfood 1 153423 Fish sandwiches are good (and the absolute best lunch available at Oakland Airport, where they have a kiosk), but stop by for the bean pie. I love their bean pie. Tue Feb 01 01:18:40 -0800 2005 153419 0 bernalgirl 2 153445 Their fish sandwiches are to die for! I used to hike 9 blocks once a week to get them when I worked in Oakland. The carrot pie is also divine, though don't ask why it's carrot and not sweet potato unless you want a seriously long answer involving the Koran. Tue Feb 01 12:01:30 -0800 2005 153423 0 leaseachef 3 153459 That's funny, I had a piece of pie from their kiosk at the airport that I'm 99% sure was sweet potato. It was probably the tastiest thing I've ever eaten in an airport. Speaking of Your Black Muslim Bakery, there is a place about a block or two north on Telegraph called Wilma's Catfish Kitchen - I always wonder about it as I go by. Anyone tried it? Tue Feb 01 13:19:40 -0800 2005 153445 0 Chris Willging 4 153465 Haven't tried it yet, but here's a review from the Eastbay express. I love this line, "Wilma's wings weren't anywhere near as tender as the ones from Scend's, but they'd come from mammoth birds, the kind you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley late at night." Besides a catfish review on Wilma's and Scend's, there is a review of Southern Cafe. Looking up Wilma's online, I found out the the Black Muslim Bakery holds church servies on Sundays. Link: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-03-03/dining/food.html Image: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-03-03/dining/food_1.gif Tue Feb 01 13:49:46 -0800 2005 153459 0 Krys Stanley 5 153466 more about wilmas' Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/27223#111804 Tue Feb 01 13:54:24 -0800 2005 153465 0 try this 2 153447 I always get the fish sandwich and a pie before I fly Southwest. Best with ketchup and mustard. Tue Feb 01 12:16:33 -0800 2005 153423 0 heidipie 1 153446 Probably no sheet cake, and if they did, it'd be whole wheat. They do a sort of soul health food. You might want to read up on Yusef Bey before eating there. Tue Feb 01 12:11:03 -0800 2005 153419 0 Robert Lauriston 2 156153 What does reading up on Yusuf Bey have to do with eating at Your Black Muslim Bakery??? Do you read upon the owners of other Restaurants before you sit down to eat???? Thu Feb 24 21:34:58 -0800 2005 153446 0 BakeryPatron 1 153453 By the way, there's also a branch in downtown Oakland, on 17th near Webster. I walk by it often, but have yet to brave the doors. They offer veggie burgers as well, which seemed like an odd offering for a "bakery"... Tue Feb 01 12:45:48 -0800 2005 153419 0 Marc Wallace 2 153456 Their offerings are based on their interpretation of Muslim dietary laws and thus aren't really soul food, although there's definitely some culinary cross-over. The food is pretty good -- the political and religious scene is controversial, as Robert implied. The founder, Yusef Bey, is now dead, but the organization he built presumably still runs along the same lines. Tue Feb 01 13:02:46 -0800 2005 153453 0 Ruth Lafler 1 153548 For an AfAm style bakery, try It's All Good on MLKing in Oakland just across the Berkeley border. Sheet cakes, bundt cakes, sweet potato pie. Nothing special in my mind, but it may fill in some niche. Tue Feb 01 23:11:44 -0800 2005 153419 0 Pork Butt 1 154058 YUMMY cinnamon buns! Sat Feb 05 15:06:41 -0800 2005 153419 0 annan