Please enter at least 3 characters
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.
12024 posts •
Paula Wolfert Dinner public
The Socialite

Paula Wolfert Dinner

Fifth Floor Restaurant & Lounge is hosting a special ~JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BENEFIT DINNER IN HONOR OF COOKBOOK AUTHOR PAULA WOLFERT~. Chef Laurent Manrique and a roster of his acclaimed fellow chefs and friends will prepare a spectacular six-course dinner with dishes adapted from Wolfert’s classic recipes from…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Festa Della Donna public
The Socialite

Festa Della Donna

Art by Kelly Tunstall. Every year, A16 celebrates International Women's Day—and of course it’s in an Italian style, so it’s ~FESTA DELLA DONNA~. There’s much to celebrate, including the many wonderful women who work at A16, and the promotion of Liza Shaw as a…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Rich Higgins on 2009: Year of the Beer public
The Wino

Rich Higgins on 2009: Year of the Beer

Rich Higgins is president of the San Francisco Brewers Guild and has been brewing professionally in San Francisco for five years. He is also a certified Cicerone and a consultant to the restaurant industry on beer and food pairing. He can be reached at rich [at] richhiggins [dot] com. 2009:…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Broken Record public
The Regular

Broken Record

NOTE: Ryan and Katharine are no longer cooking here, but BR still has a kitchen going, with items like fried chicken, potato skins, and the whiskey collection is excellent. Do you know where the Excelsior is? I wager you'll look it up once you're through with…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Regular

Excelsior

NOTE: Ryan and Katharine are no longer cooking here, but BR still has a kitchen going, with items like fried chicken, potato skins, and the whiskey collection is excellent. Do you know where the Excelsior is? I wager you'll look...…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
February 24, 2009 public
The Chatterbox

February 24, 2009

Last week I scouted out a couple soon-to-open projects in North Beach. First, I got a tour of the updated ~WASHINGTON SQUARE BAR & GRILL~, which is on target to reopen on March 2nd. The new owners are business partners Liam and Susan Tiernan of Tiernan's…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Lush

February 24, 2009

The tiki community is taking two hits this week. First, Martin Cate has left ~FORBIDDEN ISLAND~ tiki bar in Alameda. You can read his goodbye note in its entirety here, but the net-net is, “I was a minority partner in FI [Forbidden Island], and we just had different ideas…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

February 24, 2009

A tablehopper reader wrote in to say they saw Rob Schneider at Cafe Divine at Stockton and Union, having lunch “with a lady friend.” He had a coffee and an arugula salad. Actor Zach Braff (Scrubs, etc.) and four pals dined at Ame, celebrating a friend's birthday, complete…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
February 24, 2009 public
What’s Cookin’

February 24, 2009

As planned, last week was a total tasty blast, and included Tuesday’s -LIOCO dinner at Conduit and the “Three on Five” beverage battle/sommelier smackdown at Fifth Floor. Let me tell you, it’s tough to agree or even disagree with a somm sitting next to you with a…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Festa del Pesto public
The Socialite

Festa del Pesto

Last month when “The Perfect” video I did with CHOW.com on Farina’s pesto was posted, I had people telling me for weeks afterwards how the video made them crave that pesto something fierce. (I have one friend who went in for it the very next day). Well, crave…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Great! You’ve successfully signed up.
Welcome back! You've successfully signed in.
You've successfully subscribed to tablehopper.
Your link has expired.
Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.
Success! Your billing info has been updated.
Your billing was not updated.