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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The Socialite

Bastille Day

Seems like a French restaurant's authenticity card will be revoked if they don't do something to honor ~BASTILLE DAY~. Here's a brief round up of who is doing what around town besides the usual Belden Place mayhem. Cassis is offering a special $49.95…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 13, 2009

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The Jetsetter

Eddie Lau Dines in Chicago

Eddie Lau is a chef and Boston native whose former kitchen experiences in San Francisco over the last two years include Orson and Poleng Lounge. He is the proud writer and owner of HotFoodPorn.com, to which he calls "a vehicle for all things culinary that are sexy, tasty,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 13, 2009

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The Chatterbox

June 30, 2009

The opening for ~TRADEMARK~ in the former Voda space in Belden Alley is looking like this Friday, or next Monday. To recap, this 85-seater is from Peter Snyderman of Elite Café and the Café Bastille/Plouf/B44 crew of Olivier Azancot and Eric Klein. The deets: it's…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 30, 2009

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The Lush

June 30, 2009

If all goes well, Bourbon & Branch's ~RICKHOUSE~ will be soft opening this Wednesday. (It's the bar that is opening in the former Ginger's Trois space in the Financial District.) It's quite the looker—you can take a peek at some preliminary…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 30, 2009

The Starlet

June 30, 2009

(Anyone want to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon with this lineup? It's quite the hodgepodge.) A tablehopper reader spotted Jeffery Self from Logo Network's Jeffery & Cole Casserole having drinks in the lounge at Jardinière last Thursday. Matthew McConaughey had dinner with five friends at…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 30, 2009

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What’s Cookin’

June 30, 2009

I don't really need to explain why this week's issue is royally abridged—things are heatin' up in manuscript land. Or at least are gettin' heavy. The first part of my manuscript is due Mondayâ€¦ eep. May stress-related temporary blindness or carpal tunnel…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 29, 2009

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The Chatterbox

June 23, 2009

What is touted to be the City's greenest café, ~THE PLANT CAFE ORGANIC~ will open this Thursday June 25th in Pier 3 on the city's waterfront, just north of the Ferry Building. It's a spacious one: 4,600 square feet, and 112 seats. CCS…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 23, 2009

The Lush

June 23, 2009

Thanks to our city's electronic ABC permit system, yesterday I noticed what the location of Martin Cate's ~SMUGGLERS COVE~ is going to be, and I didn't even have to suffer through the brain teaser (or hurter) Cate has been hosting (it was designed to…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 23, 2009

The Starlet

June 23, 2009

A tablehopper reader was at brunch at Foreign Cinema on Sunday and saw Neil Patrick Harris. He was brunching with his partner, a producer, and another female. Another reader wrote in: "Gavin Rossdale of Bush and married to Gwen Stefani fame was having dinner at Orson this past Saturday…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 23, 2009

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What’s Cookin’

June 23, 2009

(Photo: Eggs in a cazuela from brunch at Olea.) This book is putting me into overdrive, packing my calendar full of restaurant revisits and fab tastes around town (I will admit, I love what is "research" for me right now), including the divine hummus and baked-to-order…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 22, 2009