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(Sponsor): GoodLight Natural Candles for Restaurants--Because You Breathe What You Burn

Restaurateurs, you’ve gone to a lot of trouble and expense to source the highest-quality ingredients from carefully chosen purveyors to create the best meals for your guests. The next logical step is to replace the paraffin votives and disposable oil lanterns on your tables with clean-burning, nontoxic…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 15, 2016

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The Chatterbox

Upcoming Food Events: Fat Rice Team at Motze, Taste & Tribute for Tibet, Civil Eats

Chefs Adrienne Lo and Abraham Conlon of Chicago’s acclaimed Fat Rice are in town to celebrate the release of their cookbook, The Adventures of Fat Rice, which centers on their exploration of the unique food culture of Macau (a blend of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways). Nick Balla…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 15, 2016

The Riddler, Our Dream Champagne Bar, Is Opening in Hayes Valley in December

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The Lush

The Riddler, Our Dream Champagne Bar, Is Opening in Hayes Valley in December

Cheers to this: opening this December in Hayes Valley is THE RIDDLER, an all women-funded Champagne bar (with 30 investors!). It’s led by Jen Pelka, currently principal and founder of Magnum PR, and her background includes five years at Daniel Boulud’s Daniel in New York, as a…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 15, 2016

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November 15, 2016 - This week's tablehopper: love saves the day.

This week's tablehopper: love saves the day. Feels about right: Massimo Bottura’s Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart at In Situ. Photo: © tablehopper.com. [Sorry for the delay in today’s newsletter—my mailing list service went down and it took a few hours to get it…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 14, 2016

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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: love saves the day.

[Sorry for the delay in today’s newsletter—my mailing list service went down and it took a few hours to get it fixed, argh!] It would be the understatement of the century to say this last week was a rough one. I know we are all processing a lot,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 14, 2016

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Tawla

Anyone who has a well-thumbed and stained copy of Plenty and Plenty More and Jerusalem, who knows their musaka from their maqluba and mujadara, will really enjoy poring over the extensive menu at ~TAWLA~, an Eastern Mediterranean restaurant in the Mission. And even if you don’t know these…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 14, 2016

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El Buen Comer

The family business, there’s nothing that feels like it. And ~EL BUEN COMER~ is definitely a family affair, with chef Isabel Caudillo cooking and her husband expediting, and their sons and daughters-in-law working alongside them. Caudillo is a La Cocina graduate, and this is her first brick-…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 14, 2016

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The Chatterbox

The Saratoga, an American Supper Club and Bar, Opens in the TenderNob

Opening on Thursday November 10th is the latest beauty in the Bacchus Management Group portfolio, THE SARATOGA, which is unexpectedly nestled on the corner of Larkin and Post—yup, right there in the TenderNob, with Mr. Holmes Bakehouse just up the street and Jane on Larkin down the street. When…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 08, 2016

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Onsen Bathouse Opening in the Tenderloin, with a Destination-Worthy Restaurant Too

Opening this Friday November 11th is a very special project, ONSEN, a combination bathhouse and restaurant in the Tenderloin. Owners and husband and wife Sunny Simmons and Caroline Smith took over a former auto shop and transformed it into quite the peaceful destination. Meet your new oasis. It has a…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 08, 2016

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(Sponsored): New Cooking Classes at San Francisco Cooking School

Whether you’re looking to amp up your holiday cookie game, tackle homemade ramen, finally master a killer cioppino, or perfect classic paella, San Francisco Cooking School has a new winter schedule of classes with something for every level of cook. You’ll find a huge variety of skills-based…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 08, 2016