There's an otherworldly BBQ joint behind the Richmond refineries
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Crossing the decommissioned train tracks to arrive at Black Star Pirate BBQ, Richmond, CA.Freda Moon
A while back, my husband Tim was on an ill-planned adventure with a friend — an ambitious bike ride from our home in Alameda to, and across, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge’s newly opened bike lane. But when they reached the route’s on-ramp, it was inexplicably closed. Without a plan, they set off on the nearest surface road, a narrow paved lane along the San Pablo Bay, east of the bridge and behind Richmond’s infamous refineries.