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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tablehopper supper public
The Socialite

tablehopper supper

So the holidays have ended, and now it’s time for another gathering of the gourmand tribes for the third ~TABLEHOPPER SUPPER~. I am hosting this supper at one of my very favorite restaurants, Aziza. There is room for 24 guests total, and if the last two parties are any…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
ZAP Festival public
The Socialite

ZAP Festival

The 17th Annual ~ZINFANDEL ADVOCATES & PRODUCERS FESTIVAL (ZAP)~ has a variety of events coming up, and always draws quite the crowd. For more details, check out the site links below, but here are the highlights: Flights: A Showcase of California Zinfandels, an afternoon of seated tastings and panel discussions,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
PPQ Dungeness Island public
The Regular

PPQ Dungeness Island

You know when you have friends visiting from out of town and they want an SF seafood experience? This is not about some soup in a sourdough bowl--it's prime time to hook them up with a crab fest! And seriously now, where are you going to find…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Chatterbox

January 8, 2008

Been watch-dogging the restaurant project slated to moved into the InterContinental San Francisco for a while, and the word is finally out about ~LUCE~. This new restaurant will be opening when the hotel opens, most likely by the end of February. The executive chef is Dominique Crenn, who was…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Starlet

January 8, 2008

We had a busy New Year's Eve in the city: Laura Dern and Ben Harper were at Washington Square Bar & Grill, at 12:30am on New Year's Eve (technically, New Year's Day). Just in the nick of time, I guess. They were also…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
What’s Cookin’

January 8, 2008

A Manhattan-sized hello and MEOW from NYC—it was a miracle I even made it here considering STORM 2008 was going full-tilt when I was flying out of SF on Friday. And miracle number two: it's something like 68 degrees today. I know, huh?! Highlights thus…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Wine and Wishes public
The Socialite

Wine and Wishes

The seventh annual ~MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION'S WINE AND WISHES~ event is coming up, a gourmet food and wine tasting hosted on Treasure Island. Over 60 of San Francisco's favorite chefs and wineries will be providing hors d'oeuvres, like Ana Mandara, A16, Ozumo, SPQR,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Farina public
The Regular

Farina

Some locals have said it took a lot of chutzpah (or as the Italians would say it, "palle") to move into the Mission and open a big sprawling Italian restaurant mere blocks away from the long-standing beloved, Delfina. The unique look of FARINA (nope, this was definitely…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Chatterbox

January 1, 2008

Because I am feeling a little punchy, I decided to do some quick haikus for this week’s news. Please don’t forget these are hung over haikus, so if I got some syllable counts wrong, I don’t want to hear about it. The Excedrin hasn’t kicked in…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
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