For nearly thirty years, a small red-and-white storefront on Martin Luther King Jr Way served some of the Bay Area’s most beloved Southern desserts — on ground where the Black Panther Party once opened its first office. This is a remembrance.
It’s All Good Bakery opened in 1996 and closed in early 2025. In between, it became the kind of place a neighborhood measures its years by — birthday cakes, holiday pies, an ordinary Tuesday slice of pound cake eaten standing at the counter.
It was, by every public account, a warm and unpretentious bakery: a retail counter smaller than the kitchen behind it, the smell of fresh cake meeting you at the door, and a case full of sweet potato pie, banana pudding, peach cobbler, and cakes for every occasion. It was Black-owned, family-run, and woven into the daily life of North Oakland.
And its address carried more than dessert. The site at 5622 Martin Luther King Jr Way was, in 1967, the first official office of the Black Panther Party — a history the bakery kept visible on a wall of photographs near the case.
This site gathers that public story in one quiet place. It is not the bakery’s website, and the bakery is gone; what remains is worth remembering.
“Best sweet potato pies in the world.”Paraphrased from a neighbor’s public note about the bakery
If you have a memory of the place, or a correction to anything here, the contact page is open. For the bakery’s own words and photos, see its public pages; this archive keeps to text and history.