Travelers looking for a cheesy, carb-loaded snack at the Oakland Airport have a fresh option: Forge Pizza, which opened a location this January in Terminal 2.
The new Forge is past security by Gate 26. That’s one terminal away from A16, the Bay Area pizza restaurant with Michelin cred that opened a branch in the airport last summer.
“We’re proud to incorporate a local Oakland business like Forge to help travelers truly feel like they are in the East Bay when they fly OAK (the Oakland Airport),” Craig Simon, the Port of Oakland’s director of aviation, said in a statement.
Forge specializes in sourdough pies baked in wood-fired ovens. For travelers getting off a red-eye, the airport location has an early menu served until 10 a.m. that includes a bacon-and-mushroom “breakfast pizza” (with a sunny-side egg on top, $20) and a veggie skillet with eggs, soy chorizo, gruyere and tater tots ($17.50).
The regular pizzas range from $18.50 for a margherita to $28 for a barbecue chicken and include a Fat Boy with sausage and pickled peppers ($26) and a Cauliflower with leeks and pesto ($24). There’s a burger and a fried-chicken sandwich, both on brioche, and other items like fried cheese curds with marinara ($12), crispy Brussels sprouts ($13) and an Angry Shrimp Caesar salad ($26).
The original Forge Pizza drew crowds for more than a decade in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The restaurant shut down in December, but has plans to relaunch in the city’s Rockridge neighborhood later in 2025. The Napa location of Forge Pizza remains in business.