Sound & Savor

17/07/2025

Tonight at Wyldflowr Arts, RootStock Arts presents The Arun Ramamurthy trio featuring Damon Banks on bass, Sameer Gupta on drums and Arun on violin. Carnatic-jazz fusion at is finest!
I will have a peach-oat crisp, spiced peach pecan ice cream and butterfly pea flower tea for sale. Doort at 7, concert at 7:30.

12/07/2025

Tonight's menu:

1 Sun Crest peach

2 peach, tempeh, eggplant, okra skewers with peach miso sauce (homemade tempeh and miso)

3 silken tofu and peach salad with peanuts, shiso, sesame, hijiki, cucumber, umeboshi, peach dressing

4 handmade ramen in cold peach broth with roasted peach, pickled daikon, wakame

Concert: Hitomi Oba - tenor saxophone, Erika Oba - flute

Dessert: Peaches in cold ginger soup, peanuts, sesame, peach kanten, peach ice cream

Tonight, tomorrow and next Saturday's peach dinners are all sold out. The following Saturday is the final peach menu of the season with matching cocktails still have seats available.

11/07/2025

2 seats opened up for Sunday evenings peach menu with Hitomi Oba and Erika Oba performing. Saturday is sold out as is next Saturdays peach menu with Arun Ramamurthy performing. Join us!

Another peach menu with the amazing heirloom harvest from our friends at Masumoto Peach farm. Concert by Hitomi and Erika Oba!

10/07/2025

Tonight at Wyldflowr Arts, RootStock Arts presents sitar, sarod, and tabla trio with Joanna Mack, Bruce Hamm and returning from an east coast tour, Sameer Gupta. i will have peach crisp, peach ice cream using Sun Crest peaches from Masumoto Family Farm along with butterfly pea flower tea. Doors at 7 , concert at 7:30

corner of west and 37th streets in west oakland.

07/07/2025

Only 4 more peach menus left for this season with the amazing heirloom peaches from Masumoto Family Farm and very few seats left for them.
This coming weekend, the amazing duet of sisters Hitomi Oba on tenor saxophone and Erika Oba on flute. They recently collaborated with texts by peach farmer Mas Masumoto with a piece with he Fresno symphony and this weekend in my loft, they will discuss this collaboration and do a duet reduction of this composition.
2 seats left for their concert and 4 course Japanese dinner with peaches on Saturday.
Sundays Thai peach dinner with peaches is now waiting list only.
The following Saturday, July 19, another peach menu with the duet of Arun Ramamurthy on violin and Damon Banks on electric bass, both visiting from NYC. Only 2 seats left!
And we culminate this years series of peach menus with a peach dinner with matching peach cocktails, with my old friend Joshua Hyman coming out of mixology retirement to prepare drinks. 5 seats still left for this one.
To see menus and grab your seats, please visit:https://www.eventbrite.com/o/philip-gelb-62556953693

01/07/2025

Tempeh char siu bao with a peach char sis sauce will start Saturday's family style feast of Chinese food. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinese-family-style-vegan-feast-with-masumoto-farm-peaches-tickets-1431330862139?aff=oddtdtcreator

25/06/2025

Another peach menu Saturday in West Oakland. White gazpacho, black eyed pea fritters, southern fried tempeh, peach hot sauce, peach kuchela, peach chutney, peach ice cream and lots more on the menu. A few seats still available and you can grab your seats, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4-course-masumoto-farm-peach-menu-vegan-tickets-1320746310769?

4 courses of delightful flavors and textures featuring Masumoto Family farm peaches in each course

19/06/2025

Chef Carter will be staying in my loft in the fall and hosting dinners in my space, freeing me up to spend September, October and November in Thailand. Will stay the month of September at Noise House Lat Phrao, submerging myself in Bangkok's expermental music scene. Will bring the Buchla music easel with me, so i can collaborate and perform with some of the extraordinary musicians i am encountering in this awesome city.
Meanwhile, dinners are happening every weekend throughout the summer with a Trini menu with Masumoto Family Farm peaches on Saturday.

17/06/2025

Seats available for some of the upcoming peach menus including this Saturday when I do a Caribbean menu featuring the peaches from the Masumoto Family Farm.

Dinners:
Saturday June 21 peach menu Trini flavors
Saturday June 28 peach menu
Saturday July 12 Hitomi Oba/Erika Oba duet and peach menu
Sunday July 13 Hitomi Oba/Erika Oba duet and peach menu
Saturday July 19 Arun Ramamurthy/Damon Banks duet and peach menu
Saturday July 26 Peach menu and matching peach cocktails with guest mixologist, Joshua Hyman
Saturday August 16 Sameer Gupta/Marcus Stephens duet and summer menu

Check out the link for menus and to grab your seats

Philip Gelb is a vegan chef, based in Oakland, California. Mostly known for hosting dinners in his loft in West Oakland, often with world renowned musicians performing in this very intimate space. Food is always seasonal and locally based with an emphasis on making everything in house. Handmade temp...

10/06/2025

Thursday evening at Wyldflowr Arts, RootStock Arts presents another amazing concert and i will have sweets and drinks available featuring Masumoto family farm peaches

05/06/2025

I will be at Wyldflowr Arts, tonight with peach crisp and peach ice cream made with Masumoto Family Farm rose diamond nectarines and spring lady peaches as well as Butter pea flower tea for sale. Come listen to some amazing Indian music. Doors at 7, concert at 7:30

31/05/2025

tonight's menu. Seats available if you want to make last minute plans.

Corn fritters with cucumber peanut dressing
Seaweed soup
Corn salad
Green papaya salad
Parang curry
Tofu with cashews
Pad si yu
Rice
Desser:t Masumoto farm spring lady peaches and rose diamond nectarines in cold ginger syrup