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 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

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The Socialite

Fourth of July

Photo: bluePantone292 Any San Franciscan knows the ~FOURTH OF JULY~ is a foggy joke of a night, with colored fog and barbecuing while in mittens and fleece. Here are a few dining options around town where the wind and fog won't matter: CAV By popular demand they'…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 22, 2009

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The Wino

Evan Goldstein on the Expats of the Wine Community

Photo: Wine Review (Korea) Evan Goldstein, MS, and President and Chief Education Officer of Full Circle Wine Solutions Inc., is one of the nation's most prolific food and wine industry veterans. His food and wine career started at age 19 in Paris, and in 1984 he joined his…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 22, 2009

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The Chatterbox

June 16, 2009

A little birdie tells me Erica Holland-Toll (most recently the chef at the former Lark Creek Inn) is the new executive chef of ~DUCCA~ and the Westin (she just started yesterday). The current menu is going to be intact for a few months, and she will start making changes…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 16, 2009

The Lush

June 16, 2009

This Saturday June 20th is the ~ST. GEORGE SPIRITS SUMMER OPEN HOUSE~! They open up the hangar doors, fire up the stills, and let you get a close-up look at the distillation process in action. Your entry includes three cocktail tasters, food from La Cocina and 4505, Absinthe root…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 16, 2009

The Health Nut

June 16, 2009

Tomorrow night (June 17th) is the latest session of ~GET SMART RADIO~: Food Fight! The Challenge of Making Food Taste Good While it Saves Your Life. Join Get Smart Radio's host Deborah Pardes with Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 16, 2009

The Starlet

June 16, 2009

Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica had dinner at Ozumo San Francisco. He preferred mainly sushi and was reportedly very interested in the origin of each cut. He drank Kubota Manju and also seemed quite knowledgeable about sake. Rock! John O'Hurley, AKA King Arthur in Spamalot (and the…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 16, 2009