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Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi is an SF-based restaurant columnist and culinary personality, well-known for her groundbreaking 19-year-old tablehopper newsletter, offering an insider's take on restaurant news.
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Georges Soon Opening Its Doors public
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Georges Soon Opening Its Doors

This week marks the soft opening for ~GEORGES~, located in the former London Wine Bar space in the Fugazi Building—they plan and hope to be officially open and live on OpenTable on Monday March 15th. As I mentioned in a post last year, chef and co-owner Elias Bikahi…
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There's Now a Chef for Comstock Saloon public
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There's Now a Chef for Comstock Saloon

Was thrilled to learn the chef for the upcoming ~COMSTOCK SALOON~ is Carlo Espinas, whom some of you may recognize from Piccino, Bar Jules, and currently Camino. I spoke with co-owner Jeff Hollinger, who said the menu will focus on some classic San Francisco saloon-apropos fare, like a…
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Hustle & Flow

I don’t think many tears will be sniffed over the closure of Craig’s Place in the Mission, which is now opening as ~EBB & FLOW~ this Wednesday. Chef-partner Vincent Schofield (Boulevard, Sundance Kitchen, Willows Inn on Lummi Island in Washington) has partnered up with the owners, Craig…
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Pica Pica Opening in the Mission Mission public
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Pica Pica Opening in the Mission Mission

Visitors to the Oxbow Public Market in Napa may have tried the tasty arepas and other Venezuelan street food bites at PICA PICA MAIZE KITCHEN. In early April, Pica Pica is launching a second restaurant in the former Mi Lindo Yucatan Space on Valencia here in the city. Owner-executive…
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Radius Now Honing In on This Friday public
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Radius Now Honing In on This Friday

After hitting some ever-common snags with inspections, ~RADIUS~, the new cafe-restaurant opening in the former Julie’s Supper Club, is now targeting this Friday. I got to check out the final menu, and it looks really good. Like: tarragon egg salad on polenta bread ($8) with little gem…
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A New (Point of) View at The Waterfront

Got a call from Erik Hopfinger, the chef formerly at CIRCA, Spoon, and the opening chef for butterfly when it was in the Mission (and he was a contestant on Top Chef). He is now the new chef at THE WATERFRONT RESTAURANT, starting tomorrow. He will be easing his own…
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Wakey Wakey (Without Eggs But Some Bakey) public
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Wakey Wakey (Without Eggs But Some Bakey)

A tablehoppin’ reader writes in: “~PIZZETTA 211~ (my neighborhood happy place) is now open for Blue Bottle Coffee and pastries 7am-11am. They had croissants yesterday (and said they will likely have them every Thursday) and delicious kumquat marmalade buttermilk scones today. The guy ahead of me in line walked…
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Leave the Gun. Take the Tubesteaks. public
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Leave the Gun. Take the Tubesteaks.

The hot dog trend continues: open as of last night is ~THE DOGFATHER~, the latest spot to join the local hot dog revolution. Eater originally sniffed up the trail, noting that it was opening in the former North Beach Lobster Shack. There are a variety of sausages on the menu,…
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