Photo by Kelly Puleio.
My name is Marcia (rhymes with Garcia) Gagliardi (the second g is silent), and I’m a freelance food writer in San Francisco. I’m known by many as a “culinary concierge” because I am just too damned good at dining and going out; I have been adventuring throughout the City far and wide like a culinary swashbuckler since 1994. My first book was released in spring 2010, The Tablehopper’s Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco: Find the Right Spot for Every Occasion by Ten Speed Press.
I have written features for Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, LA Times Magazine, Entrepreneur, Fodors.com, San Francisco magazine, Travel Weekly, Where Magazine, DiningOut Magazine, Marin Magazine, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. I was the contributing food editor for 7x7 magazine in 2012, the Regional Managing Editor for Northern California for Gayot.com (2006-2008), and wrote the weekly news and events.
I wrote the restaurants section for the Louis Vuitton City Guide 2013: San Francisco (released in fall 2012), wrote and edited the restaurants section in the Fodor’s San Francisco 2012 and 2013 guidebooks, contributed to the BlackBook List: San Francisco 2006 guidebook, and wrote Where Magazine’s “Hot Tips-Dining” column each month of 2004, and I got my start writing restaurant and nightlife reviews for Citysearch.com.
I write weekly posts for San Francisco Travel on their “Dine” page, a monthly gossip column, “The Tablehopper” for Marina Times/The Northside, and monthly tips for Citysearch. I also wrote and voiced a weekly segment on KGO 810AM called You Gotta Eat This (2012-2013), and was the San Francisco host of the Hungry In… series on YouTube’s Hungry channel.
Take a look at some of my past writing clips on my freelance writing page.
Since I’m always out and about, I get countless calls and emails from my friends and colleagues, asking, “Hey, what new place should I take my hairstylist to on Saturday?” (That depends; has your stylist ever made you cry?) Or, “Where should I go for a cocktail on a first date?” (I like getting my heat on at The Alembic.) And then there’s the one I hear the most after I tell someone I’m a food writer, “What’s your favorite place?” (Well, that entirely depends on the occasion.)
Since those questions keep coming, you can find answers in my weekly newsletter (the tablehopper), with my tip please service, and now my book, The Tablehopper’s Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco: Find the Right Spot for Every Occasion. Out late? Be sure to check out my late-night dining app, Tablehopper’s Top Late-Night Eats in SF!
