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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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The Lush

April 7, 2009

Over in the Polk Gulch, the N’Touch Bar is going to be converted into the ~KOZY CAR BAR~. Yup, Kozy, like those vans in the 70s. The new owner is Sam Young, who currently owns the DragonBar (he was the half-owner of the following venues until 2006: The…
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The Starlet

April 7, 2009

It’s not every day you have a Pulitzer prize winner and nun spotting all rolled into one: Sister Helen Prejean (whose book was turned into Dead Man Walking) dined at Lark Creek Walnut Creek after speaking at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church. She ordered the baby field greens…
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April 9, 2009 public
What’s Cookin’

April 9, 2009

This weekend it was clear, Spring has sprung. All you had to do was look at the farmers’ market and Dolores Park on Saturday to confirm it. I had fun riding my bike all over town this weekend—highlights include Jordan Mackay’s reading (Passion for Pinot) and wine tasting…
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Star Chefs and Vintners Gala public
The Socialite

Star Chefs and Vintners Gala

Mark your calendar and reserve your spot for the ~22ND ANNUAL STAR CHEFS & VINTNERS GALA~ benefiting Meals On Wheels of San Francisco (MOWSF). The Gala is MOWSF's largest fundraiser, and its main source of charitable contributions for the year. Boulevard's Nancy Oakes is the gala…
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April 7, 2009 public
The Socialite

April 7, 2009

Tamales: definitely one of those things you don’t just whip up at home—and if you are going to make them, you need a posse of pals to help. Why not leave the handiwork to the pros? At the third annual ~A TASTE OF TAMALES BY THE BAY~, guests…
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Phat Philly public
The Regular

Phat Philly

Do you eat your pizza with a fork and knife? Then you're gonna have a problem at PHAT PHILLY, because you're about to eat one of the messiest, drippy, meaty sandwiches I've encountered since I had an Oki Dog in L.A. one stoned…
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March 31, 2009 public
The Chatterbox

March 31, 2009

~BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE~ is due to open their Ferry Plaza Marketplace café this Thursday April 2nd (it’s going into the former Oak Hill Farm spot). Now, while it’s not going to be as swish as the Mint Plaza location, it’s going to be a step up from…
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March 31, 2009 public
The Lush

March 31, 2009

Photo: Mathew Sumner Does this springtime weather have you in a tropical mood? Tonight, tiki legend Martin Cate is pouring a menu of vintage exotics in the library at ~BOURBON & BRANCH~. Get your Hawaiian shirt or hula skirt on and head over for some tiki classics—you can read…
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The Starlet

March 31, 2009

Ben Affleck, Mike Walrath (Senior Vice President, Yahoo—Right Media), and a third gent dined at a corner table at Spruce. Looks like Ben is a pork man, and they also enjoyed some fab wines. Gerard Depardieu and two male friends briefly hung out over two pots of green tea…
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March 31, 2009 public
What’s Cookin’

March 31, 2009

How to sum up last week? Well, it was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Let’s start with the good stuff, like the dinner at Ottimista Enoteca with Gemma, the visiting Piemontese chef. Her rabbit with peppers dish, and the dessert of meringata, an incredible…
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