Flora & Ferment shutters quietly, community cornerstone Friends and Family announces closing date

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Flora & Ferment

Flora & Ferment, an Albany bottle store that focuses on ciders, has completely closed with out ceremony. Drinks like Mexican lagers, hibiscus mead, and chocolate cherry cider have been simply a few of the merchandise you could possibly discover right here, and the shop typically hosted occasions like ingesting and pulling nights and an annual scorching canine competition. Flora & Ferment was situated at 1122 Solano Ave. (off Kains Ave.) in Albany.

Family and friends

To high all of it off for the East Bay’s queer neighborhood and, properly, everybody else, actually, Oakland’s iconic, lavishly embellished sapphic bar Pals & Household introduced that its legendary reign will come to an finish on December thirtieth. House to well-known carrot cake slices, dreamy martinis and sought-after occasions like queer pace relationship and bingo nights. Since opening within the throes of the pandemic, Pals & Household has served as a boon to neighborhood, connection and award-winning meals. Simply this week, Pals and Household was nominated by Nosh readers for the most effective bar within the East Bay for 2025.

The bar’s early closure comes after a “devastatingly gradual” summer season and wider financial issues, however proprietor Blake Cole mentioned she is going to proceed to host personal occasions and personal dinners by means of the New 12 months till the lease is bought. Sooner or later, she and chef Gaby Maeda hope to open one other idea collectively, so control developments. Pals & Household was situated at 468 twenty fifth St. in Oakland.