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Crosscurrents

Oxtails and black beans- telling the Haitian story through food in Oakland

Chef Felix
Hana Baba
Chef Felix

This interview aired in the June 26, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents.

Click the link above to listen.

The Bay Area is home to thousands of Haitians. In this segment of our Diaspora stories, Crosscurrents host, Hana Baba went to visit one that’s been in the culinary news over the last 2 years - his restaurant was  named one of the tastiest restaurants in the Bay Area by the SF Chronicle, among other accolades.

He’s Chef Frantz Felix - the owner of Oakland’s first Haitian restaurant, T’Chaka, in Oakland.

Crosscurrents
Hana Baba is host of Crosscurrents, KALW's weeknight newsmagazine that broadcasts on KALW Public Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area.