Arthur Mac's Tap and Snack is leaving Oakland
A popular pizza-and-wings joint that anchored an Oakland corner is moving out.
Arthur Mac’s Tap and Snack, located half a block from the MacArthur BART station, will leave town this fall, according to a statement posted by the restaurant, which was founded by Joel DiGiorgio and Adam Stemmler of the Farm League Restaurant Group.
It will move Oakland operations to Hayward, where the company has long been planning another Arthur Mac’s location, which will feature an intact legacy BART car renovated into part of its dining area.
A staffer who picked up the phone at the restaurant confirmed it was moving out of its Longfellow District location at 4006 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, though they did not give a final day. The owners did not immediately return a request for comment. They continue to run a sister restaurant in Emeryville, Arthur Mac's Little Snack.
The Oakland Arthur Mac’s opened in 2017 right by the MacArthur BART station, which inspired its name. It was a (slightly) grittier time for the city, and local families and their kids flocked to the eatery’s outdoor garden for pizza parties and game nights.
Since it landed on the corner, the area near the station attracted other tenants, including a critically lauded sushi restaurant and a new pickleball arena. Interestingly, a Reddit poster indicated that Arthur Mac’s allowed customers at the neighboring sushi spot to use its restrooms, raising the question of where they’d go now. The staffer who picked up the phone said there might be other restrooms in an office nearby.
The restaurant had recently seen tough times, according to a post last November on Facebook. "Lifestyles have changed, and the cost of living is incredibly challenging; people just aren't going out like they used to," it read.
The closure announcement from Arthur Mac’s seemed to take some credit for the neighborhood’s upswing. It reads, in part:
"When we opened in Longfellow back in 2017, we hoped to leave our location in a better condition than we received it, and thanks to all of you, we feel confident we did!
"Despite several years of overwhelming and unprecedented challenges, we're now happy to say that Oakland feels alive again! Longfellow is finding its rhythm again with incredible businesses and new energy bringing optimism back to the neighborhood. Crime is way down and safety and community engagement seems to be reaching new heights. We wholeheartedly believe Oakland and Longfellow’s best days are still ahead of us which is why the timing is prudent for new energy at our corner of 40th & MLK Jr Way."
The owners wrote in their farewell that they hoped to help a decent tenant take over the space – "ideally someone who reminds us of ourselves 10 years ago - with obsessive passion, creative and even cavalier ideas and true love for Oakland."
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This story was originally published June 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM.