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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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Food & Wine American Wine Awards public
The Socialite

Food & Wine American Wine Awards

This looks like quite an event: Food & Wine Magazine is offering tickets to the public for its annual ~FOOD & WINE AMERICAN WINE AWARDS~ for the first time ever. EVER! Only 100 tickets are available, on a first-come, first-served basis. Join winemakers, industry leaders, and key members…
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Brenda's French Soul Food public
The Regular

Brenda's French Soul Food

After my unofficial tablehopping crash course through New Orleans this summer, I was so fired up to learn how much the food and flavors there really had terroir. Like, where y'at? I was in NAWLINS, make no mistake, honey. I would love to move there for a few…
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The Chatterbox

September 25, 2007

Cute new restaurant alert! In the former Vogalonga space in the Mission is ~LOLO~, a friendly little spot with one heck of an intriguing concept: Latin American meets Mediterranean. A friend dined there on the opening night and said the flavors were fab and fresh—the restaurant has a focus…
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Matador public
The Lush

Matador

Anthony LaVia (who helped open Gestalt House) has taken over the Arrow Bar, and will be reopening it as ~MATADOR~. After some delays, it’s looking like a soft opening will happen the first weekend of October, and then a grand opening on the 19th. The look will include some…
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The Starlet

September 25, 2007

Now another reason why you should do the Mariquita Mystery Box: star sightings! Tracy Chapman was spotted at Pizzetta 211 while some tablehopper readers were picking up their boxes.…
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Jack Falstaff, September 25, 2007

The menu: Passed appetizers: Mini burgers, salmon sashimi, soft egg with Dungeness crabmeat, compressed melon skewers, and beef and raisin empanadas Family-Style Dinner First Course: Late-summer heirloom tomato salad, house-made burrata with crescenza and ricotta cheese, torn basil, and brown butter vinaigrette Second Course: Whole-roasted Long…
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What’s Cookin’

September 25, 2007

This week is a dangerous dining pileup, and why I am grateful for my new fitness regimen starting this Saturday: tonight is the tablehopper supper, tomorrow is the Toast of the Town event, Thursday I’m attending a test dinner at Sens, Friday I’m hitting A Taste of Greece,…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Tastes of the City public
The Socialite

Tastes of the City

Legacy, a new organization, will be hosting ~TASTES OF THE CITY~, a culinary event and auction benefiting George Mark Children’s House, the nation’s first and only freestanding home for seriously ill children and their families. With members ranging between the ages of 25 and 45, Legacy’s goal…
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Rubicon: Celebrating Ten Grand Years public
The Socialite

Rubicon: Celebrating Ten Grand Years

Congrats to ~RUBICON~, which is about to celebrate ten straight years of being awarded the highest restaurant wine honor there is: Wine Spectator’s Grand Restaurant Award! A tasting menu is being designed to complement a very special set of wines chosen by Master Sommelier Larry Stone and Wine Director…
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Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV public
The Jetsetter

Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV

This year was my sixth at ~BURNING MAN~, and boy, have my dining habits changed after my first year back in 1996, when I was “cooking” Tasty Bites from Trader Joe’s on a single Coleman burner, with no kitchen to speak of and eating out of the same bowl…
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