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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.
12038 posts •
May 12, 2009 public
What’s Cookin’

May 12, 2009

Whoa, who is that girl bringing her own grain sausage and vegetables to a birthday barbecue, and making curried tofu scramble (thank you Heidi Swanson for yet another delicious recipe) for Mother's Day while everyone else is eating bacon and French toast and drinking bubbles? Yeah, that would…
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Spring Menus public
The Socialite

Spring Menus

~SPRING HAS SPRUNG~ all over town—here are a few events and updates: Ame restaurant just unveiled its new spring menu, including (back by popular demand) the chawan mushi with Maine lobster and sea urchin (I have had this dish before and it's freaking amazing), and “vol au…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Enterpreneurial Women in the Food Biz public
The Socialite

Enterpreneurial Women in the Food Biz

Sorry this is coming atcha today (the event is tonight) but I thought a number of you would be interested in this Commonwealth Club Bay Gourmet event, ~ENTREPRENEURIAL WOMEN IN THE FOOD BIZ~, when a panel of powerful female food entrepreneurs will be dishing up the tricks of their trade.…
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May 5, 2009 public
The Chatterbox

May 5, 2009

Big congrats to all the ~JAMES BEARD~ winners (and nominees!). Nate Appleman won Rising Star Chef (!!), and Douglas Keane of Cyrus won Best Chef: Pacific. Also, my fabulous new publisher has a winning Cookbook of the Year for Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes (author: Jennifer McLagan,…
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Marcia Gagliardi •
May 5, 2009 public
The Lush

May 5, 2009

After being closed from a fire for eight months, ~MARTIN MACK'S~ in the Haight is reopening this Friday. The menu will be back in effect with Irish bacon and cabbage on Mondays, plus fish and chips, hamburgers, and more. Kitchen hours are Mon–Fri 11:30am–3pm and…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 5, 2009 public
The Health Nut

May 5, 2009

Things are going incredibly well with this cleanse—who knew I’d enjoy going vegan so much? Well, until I look at pictures of Sunday’s Pig Out at Coffee Bar. Anyway, life without my morning espresso is actually easy when I haven’t been up late carrying on, eating…
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The Sugar Mama

May 5, 2009

Just in time for Mother’s Day and National Women’s Health Week (May 10–16), join WomenHeart and Clos du Bois Winery in supporting women’s heart disease awareness and prevention with a visit to ToastToWomen.com, a new website that is part of a year-long campaign to…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Starlet

May 5, 2009

I had two tablehopper readers write in about spotting Vince Vaughn at Gary Danko last Friday April 24th. Sean Penn was on the town Saturday night, both at the Clift’s Redwood Room with a group of friends, and at RN74 Saturday night with Matt Gonzalez (former mayoral candidate/supervisor/…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 5, 2009 public
What’s Cookin’

May 5, 2009

There’s nothing like going out on a Monday morning to move your car for street cleaning and finding your roof all slashed up (two foot-long holes), plus a botched attempt to pry off one of my speakers (sorry lame robber dude, my friend drilled those puppies in tight…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Dine About Town SF public
The Socialite

Dine About Town SF

The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) bi-annual ~DINE ABOUT TOWN SAN FRANCISCO~ restaurant promotion returns. Over 125 San Francisco restaurants are participating, offering diners prix-fixe lunches for $21.95 and/or dinners for $34.95, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Dates and times of participation vary…
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Marcia Gagliardi •
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