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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 Starlet

April 10, 2007

Dude, Dave Chappelle was all over town. He dined at the Straits Restaurant in the Westfield Centre with his wife and other family members (believed to be his two sons and brother). Since he is a pescatarian, they checked out the Vegetable Samosas, Roti Prata, Seafood Green Curry, and Wok-…
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What’s Cookin’

April 10, 2007

I am sure plenty of you out there are happy Easter finally got here so you could start eating sugar or bread or drinking again. (I wasn’t brought up to be a quitter, so I just stayed my course during that whole Lent thing.) What I was happy about…
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Dining Out for Life public
The Socialite

Dining Out for Life

The annual ~Dining Out for Life~ event is coming up, and I have a couple friends hosting dinners at restaurants around the city. My friend William is hosting at Indigo, which is offering the “Ultimate Wine Dinner” for $49 served from 8pm to close, which is a prix-fixe dinner…
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The Wino

Alex Fox on the Master Sommelier Exam

Alex Fox works as the Wine Director for Myth Restaurant in San Francisco. As unlikely as it may sound from the piece below, he plans on sitting for the Master of Wine degree in 2009. Alex Fox on the Master Sommelier Exam A few weeks back, wine professionals of all…
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Presidio Social Club public
The Regular

Presidio Social Club

I am a rather nostalgic person, with a particular soft spot for most objets from the '20s-'40s; a little kid once said I was like an old lady with my collection of handbags, scarves, and Bakelite bracelets. Thanks kid--you now get nothing in my will. (Ha…
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The Chatterbox

April 3, 2007

While it seems Laurent Manrique's Alley project in Yerba Buena Lane is running into some delays, Vijay Bist's third location for ~AMBER INDIA~ is proceeding along (the other two locations are in Mountain View and Santana Row). The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is slated to…
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The Starlet

April 3, 2007

More Tiffani from Top Chef sightings: she was at The Mix in the Castro, and spotted at NOPA as well. A tablehopper reader was at the 2nd floor of the XYZ Bar at the W Hotel Friday evening, and the model Fabio was there. (There was some sort of health/…
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What’s Cookin’

April 3, 2007

Can you hear my liver crying? The weekend was like surviving the high seas, which included a torrent of beer while at this week's entry in fresh meat. Actually, this week's installment features a couple write-ups from my visits to two bars around town: one…
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Wines of Portugal public
The Socialite

Wines of Portugal

You'd think I have it in for your liver or something. Coming up is a ~WINES OF PORTUGAL~, a first-time tasting with over 48 Portuguese wine producers and more than 400 wines. Press and trade can attend the tasting during the day, and the public tasting (with…
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