Uptown Market & Liquors

Had an excellent experience here today and will definitely return. Got word they had some Goose Island BCBS and Coffee Stout and Regal Rye so flew out the door with wet hair post-​shower. Sure enough… nice little stock of these three and one GI Lolita. Perused some more and found Drake’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Jolly Rodger, tons of Stone, and so many other great beers… especially a great selection of stouts and porters which is frankly quite hard to find. So I bought all I could… and had a nice conversation with the man at the counter… it seems like they really care about keeping good beer in stock. You can find and follow them on Instagram to keep up to date on what’s currently in. Now if they would just get on beermenus, all would be perfect. BTW — sooo easy to get to — Hwy 24 to the Telegraph exit, if you could go straight for a block you’d be there, but you have to circumnavigate around the block because it’s a one way street right where the freeway exit is.

Kind of weird, the storefront looks like an abandoned car wash but the interior is extremely pristine and well organized. I visited this place sometime in the early afternoon and there is a huge plethora of packaged and frozen food here. I’ve never had someone help me out in the store before but one employee was making rounds and checking to see if anyone needed assistance. Your miles may vary judging by the reviews of others.

They used to be good people who owns it or work there. Now there’s young guy who works there with bad attitude. This guy thinks he’s giving away stuff for free. Completely ass!

Completely renovated with new owners offering a much wider and more upscale selection including food and grocery items. Clean, bright, with friendly cheerful service. A nice change for the neighborhood.

I stumbled across this liquor store as I was looking for a late night Store to buy some booze.
5 mins off the 50^th &5 1^st street exit this liquor store presents themselves as a big liquor store with a grocery store feeling. It’s open till 1 AM but before they changed owners they used to be open till 2 AM! They sure don’t do that in my city! Lol
Staff are super nice and sweet and always greets me upon entering and when I leave.
They sell a large variety of everything you need: snacks, house goods, booze, wine, coffee! You name it.
I personally don’t see what the low reviews are all about, I cone here and receive amazing customer service and truly leave happy!
The neighborhood may not be the best area but if you just stay in your lane and touch your nose, you wouldn’t have the problem of being known as the nosey person ;).
Give this liquor store a try! You wouldn’t be disappointed! ! :)

Like Yo K said, this place is awesome if you relish the opportunity to be caught in some gun violence at all hours of the day and night. If the sight of shell casings in a parking lot or the sound of gunshots mere yards away is your thing – by all means, visit Uptown.
Of course, if you value your own life and the lives of others – children, neighbors, etc. then Uptown is an enormous blight in your life and neighborhood. Accessibility to a cold one or bag of Doritos shouldn’t be a life or death proposition.

More like Uptown Murder & Liquors.
We live around the corner. If you rush to see chalk outlines like storm watchers chase tornados, then add this address to your after dark gore hunt rounds. The neighborhood has wanted this place out for decades.
Oh?! What was that? Another semi automatic just unloaded 50+ rounds in the parking lot followed by a blown tire chase through the neighborhood, followed by more gunfire? Yeah! About an hour ago.
Come on in and browse the micro brews, just don’t knock over the yellow ballistic cones on your way out.

I have been coming to this market for years and service is always friendly. I always get what I need and if the store does not have it then they would gladly order it for me. It’s a quick stop on my way home or on my way to work and school, the lines always move fast. Just the other day they got me a shot for my 21^st birthday. I haven’t seen a family owned business run so well in years.

Unfortunately– the nice old man who sold crushed ice in large bags is gone. All that’s left is a guy who isn’t sure what crushed ice is… Will miss this place.

I must say, trotting down to my local liquor store to buy 2 bags of ice and a bottle of spiced rum had me feeling pretty bad-​ass. Oh yeah, don’t let the lipstick fool you boys, this girl is a professional boozer. Well, I’m working on it anyway…
This place is everything you’d expect from an Oakland liquor store: creepy stares, dirty floors, and nasty drunk munchies galore. But they do have a parking lot — always a plus when you’re in a pinch — and they know their liquor, so when you ask, in your best big-​girl voice, which rum they would recommend for your holiday eggnog they’ll say, «This spiced one is a’ight. And it’s the cheapest.» Sold!
Now I understand why every neighborhood needs a liquor store. We all forget the rum sometimes.

Uptown Market has been around for decades. they have snacks, coffee, groceries, and all kinds of wines and hard liquor. uptown isn’t more than 10 blocks from where huey p. and the black panthers used to have their h.q.
Uptown has a broad range of microbrews and mainstream beer, mostly unpriced. what is priced is $ 1 or $ 2 over other markets.
pour: boddingtons pub ale (2.25, pt. 5%?)
–smooth and creamy brew, no bite. lite tasting. 3 stars.
on draught:
–tight aisles
–changing ‘hood, overflow from rockridge, temescal, still has «hood
characteristics.
–friendly chitchat from clerk.

Nicest staff ever.
Mix and match six packs of beer!
A classic place to grab a single Smirnoff which which to «ice» your «bro».

I am a regular to this little shop as its right between my route home from work. I have nothing but good things to say about the people running this establishment. They are so friendly in the face of so much adversity that they actually make me feel bad about myself being in the service industry as well.
These gentlemen serve the absolute, end all be all… dregs of society… this area is a cesspool serving only to sustain the absolute scum of the earth, and most of these individuals sustain themselves from this little store. Almost every day I see some «something for nothing maggot» trying to haggle some 65 cents gumdrop down to 55 cents… and even in the face of all that; day in and day out these guys are so beyond friendly and hospitable to me.
It’s not like me to review a liquor store, but if there is one to review it was this one.
Great job guys.

Used to be my liquor store of choice when I lived in North Oakland. It was a full 10+ blocks from where I lived but I still preferred it over all the others. Must have been the large selection of booze kept cold (especially the Hennesey and Patron) and the fact that it was a neighborhood store and whenever I went there and was able to round down my total and get stuff tax free a lot of the time. Hey, I was dropping $ 50+ almost every time I went there so it made sense. The prices are reasonable for a liquor store and they have it all (plus snacks, some groceries, and basic household items).
As others have said, yeah it’s kinda hood, get over it, park right in front, get your goods and get on with the night.

This is probably the only five-​star rating I’ll ever give to a liquor store.
Superior selection of beer, wine and other liquor. Variety of food staples such as beans, rice, and other grains is vast compared to other local liquor store offerings. There are plenty of organic and healthy food options plus a produce section. Of course the inventory can’t top that of a traditional grocery store or farmers’ market but it’s quite a lot more than one would expect from a corner store. Uptown has ATMs, soda pop dispensers, a coffee machine, four cases full of ice cream, and even a clothing/​book donation box out front. The aisles are clean and the store is comfortably spacious. To top it off, they’re friendly, too.
If I lived near the Uptown Market, I wouldn’t have to go to the supermarket ever again.

Where do i begin. LOL this place is a dump i mean its always thugs hanging out in and out of the store and i dont know its just very filthy and ghetto. the best liquor store in north oakland and maybe even the bay area is East Bay Liquors which is yup on 54^th and MLK right down the street from Uptown. you guys need to check that spot out i mean this dude Bill, who is a hottie by the way, is so cool and has the best deals and has all the beer and liquor you ask for even if they dont have it he’s so cool he’ll write it down and order it the next day and as far as the environment its clean no ones hanging out and did i mention he was sooo cute… LOL…screw uptown go to Bill’s at East Bay Liquors!!!

Love the Uptown and their oily greasy ass parking lot. Guys with their huggies hanging out in the breeze are always mulling around their hoopties in front of all the signs which clearly fobid such behavior, but, eh, so what?
I live nearby and can always get an ice cold diet rockstar, pack of camels, and a heyya when i come by.
The most amazing thing happened to me the other day there. I went to get ice and, lo and behold, the white boxy building out front is the freezer. And Fucking-​A is it full of ice!!! I swear, I walked into the cooler and it was like if I were an ice fetishist (c’mon you know they’re out there!) I would have found my little slice of perv pie in the east bay. They had all types of ice – big bags, small bags, block ice, crushed ice – it was beautiful.
So, if you need a greasy parking lot, sketchy partially dressed thugs, or ice come here!!!

I always thought this place was called Uptown Ice… whatever.
Well, the only thing that can get me to come to this section of the ghetto is the fact that they are the only place I know of in the Bay Area that sells snow ice. Somebody close to me is addicted to it… dont ask.
The people at the store are cool — nothing bad to say there. The crowd is a little rough — make sure your clip is full when going to and from your car. Is there a prison rehab nearby? Seems like all the thugs, hookers, winos, and misc. seedy types you can handle are frequent visitors of this place. But I HAVE TO have my ice…
(I asked Glacier if there is another place close by, sadly there is not).
I’m thankful, as of late that somebody decided to make a shave ice machine for the regular household. Now I don’t have to put my life in jeopardy every time I need some ice.
I feel sorry for the family that owns this place — sometimes — for some reason I get the feeling that as bad the crowd that frequents this place is, they are one of those stores who have an arsenal that will outmatch a small battalion…

I used to live a block away and in the summer this was my jam. I’d always get summer snacks and my pals would get beer. Their ice cream is usually icy or old or something and the candy can be pretty stale, too. But they have some grocery types of items which comes in handy when you start cooking something and realize you’re out of _​_​_​_​. But really, where else could you get a tall tee, hard liquor kept in the ice cream freezer, and squirty nacho cheese on anything you buy for an extra 25 or 50 cents?!* Only at Uptown Liquors. Coming here is always noteworthy. 4 stars for that.
*I haven’t actually purchased nacho cheese, tall tee’s or hard liquor in an ice cream freezer, but it’s totes legit.

Best liquor store I have ever frequented. I absolutely love every single member of that huge Yemeni family that works here, not to mention Hector, the El Salvadorean immigrant, who is an angel. I bought everything here, including my toilet paper, vodka, tomato juice, starburst. They gave me a free bottle of liquor (in a shatterproof plastic bottle) on my 20^th birthday. Needless to say I had established my reputation here as the angelic Basque girl, and the rest is history. I wish I had never moved.