A Famed East Bay Vegan Restaurant Returns Weeks After Closing

OAKLAND, CA — A longtime, critically acclaimed vegan restaurant that closed last month is back, but on a smaller scale.

Millennium owner Alison Bagby expected to serve her last meal at the restaurant on Saturday, May 16. The restaurant was no longer financially stable, and there just weren't enough customers to keep operating.

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But over the weekend, Bagby announced Millennium would be returning Wednesday with a new prix fixe menu as they find ways to operate on a smaller scale.

The prix fixe menu will allow customers to choose from a three- or five-course experience. A small à la carte menu will also be available for both dine-in and takeout.

"If you’ve attended one of our wine dinners or special event dinners, you know how exciting it can be when Eric (Tucker) channels all of his creativity and talent into a more focused menu," according to a post on Millennium's Instagram. "We’re thrilled to embrace that approach with this new format and can’t wait to share these dinners with you."

Pizza nights will begin in July, they added.

Millennium first opened in 1994, inside San Francisco's Hotel California, under the ownership of Larry and Ann Wheat. At the time, it was one of the Bay Area's pioneering vegan restaurants.

When the Wheats retired in 2015, Tucker and Bagby took over and relocated to its current location in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

Millennium is critically acclaimed and known for its innovative vegan cuisine.