This Late-Night Filipino Diner in Downtown Oakland Is Hidden in Plain Sight

The secret is out about Tita Becca’s amazing homestyle pork sisig and kare-kare.

The Midnight Diners is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.

Tita Becca’s is the kind of restaurant that almost doesn’t seem real.

What do you mean there’s an old-fashioned Filipino diner right smack in the middle of downtown Oakland where you can sit on a ’50s-style bar stool eating some of the most delicious pork sisig and kare-kare you’ve ever tasted — as late as 2 o’clock in the morning, no less?…

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