Marcia Gagliardi

Many of you know how obsessed I am with vintage San Francisco restaurant ephemera. I have a rather extensive collection of vintage menus, postcards, restaurant guides, and books, which I have started sharing on Instagram with the #tablehoppervintageseries hashtag. And my collection of tablehopper T-shirts highlight vintage SF restaurant…

The Castro is about to have their dream corner café, bistro, and bakery come to the neighborhood: LE MARAIS BAKERY will be opening in a couple of weeks in the former Samovar location. It’s a sunny corner, and the south-facing space is so inviting, full of windows and…

Newly open for dinner in Hayes Valley is Adriano Paganini’s pasta-centric A MANO (which means “by hand”), featuring pastas made in-house daily that are also affordable, ringing in at $12-$15, like paccheri with eggplant, capers, San Marzano tomatoes, and ricotta salata. (Personally, I can’t wait…

Downtown workers have a pretty sweet lunch counter to perch at, CITY COUNTER. I broke the news about the project back in March, and kudos to first-time owner Harper Matheson on getting this project open so quickly. Go ladies (it’s female-owned and designed). It’s a chic…

News broke last week in the SF Business Times that Michael Mina is partnering with Ayesha Curry to open INTERNATIONAL SMOKE in the ~RN74~ space (obviously they aren’t too worried about that sinking Millennium Tower). She did a successful pop-up at MINA Test Kitchen last year, and they…

Great news: after searching for a location for a long time for her Scandinavian-inspired KANTINE, chef Nichole Accettola has found a location—but she’ll need a change of use permit to convert the Little Hollywood Launderette into a restaurant (Castro Merchants are reportedly in favor). It’s right…

There’s a new sandwich stand in The Hall: BACK EAST SANDWICH SHOP from Baltimore transplant Chris Doiron. He was formerly a landscape designer, and then took over a deli he really loved in Baltimore. After bringing Luigi’s Italian Deli back to life, his Scooch sandwich went on to…