Oakland’s First and Only Haitian Restaurant Is a Knockout

Griot, a citrus-marinated fried pork dish, is one of the Haitian specialties served at T'chaka in Old Oakland. (Luke Tsai/KQED)
Published by KQED
October 2023

Frantz Felix was tired of how the only time Americans ever seemed to talk about Haiti was in connection to some humanitarian disaster: a massive earthquake or mind-boggling act of government malfeasance. He wanted to show another side to his country of birth — the richness of its culture, the deliciousness of its foodways.

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