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(Sponsored): Take Champagne Henriot Home for the Holidays

Champagne Henriot is a family-owned Champagne house founded in 1808. Located in Reims, in the heart of the Champagne region in France, this stuff is the real deal. Their house style is driven by chardonnay with long lees aging—rich and focused, with elegance and finesse. Gift their rich and…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 01, 2015

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510 News: Firebrand Opens

FIREBRAND ARTISAN BREADS has opened in their brand-new location in The Hive in Uptown Oakland. The new location serves wood-fired breads from baker and founder Matt Kreutz, as well as pastries from Colleen Orlando. There are also sandwiches at lunch from Pal’s Takeaway and coffee from Highwire Coffee Roasters.…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 01, 2015

Booze News and Beers and Wine Specials Too

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Booze News and Beers and Wine Specials Too

By Dana Eastland. HEALTHY SPIRITS is now open in Bernal Heights, according to Bernalwood. The new liquor store has moved into the former Chuck’s Grocery space, and, like their other two locations, is focused on offering high-quality small-batch spirits. Their particular focus is on whiskey, beer, and agave spirits…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 01, 2015

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If specialty foods are your business, you're invited!

If specialty foods are your business, you're invited! Specialty food professionals—your must-attend event of the year is coming soon. It’s the Winter Fancy Food Show 2016, and it’s taking place at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, January 17th-19th. As the West Coast’s largest specialty…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 01, 2015

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December 1, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: shaken, not stirred.

This week's tablehopper: shaken, not stirred. I was definitely thankful for my family’s awesome Thanksgiving spread—grandma’s giblet gravy in the house! Photo: © tablehopper.com. I’d like to propose more four-day weekends on our calendar. Man, was that good. After a quiet Thanksgiving with the…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 30, 2015

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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: shaken, not stirred.

I’d like to propose more four-day weekends on our calendar. Man, was that good. After a quiet Thanksgiving with the fam, I spent most of my weekend writing, sleeping, catching up on work (and the final episodes of Sense8), making jook, and basically hibernating. Heaven! Although I did head…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 30, 2015

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Del Popolo Now Open in All Its Stylish, Pizza-Slinging Glory

If you don’t feel like chasing down the DEL POPOLO truck for one of Jon Darsky’s superlative wood-fired oven pizzas, now you can enjoy one of his Neapolitan-inspired pies while sitting in his handsome new restaurant in Lower Nob Hill. Look for about five to seven pizzas in…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 24, 2015

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Jérôme Waag Departing Chez Panisse to Open His Own Project in Tokyo

Some big news over at ~CHEZ PANISSE~: downstairs co-chef Jérôme Waag will be departing the restaurant in January to embark on a new project of his own in Japan. Waag has worked at Chez Panisse for something like 25 years (he started as a busboy and eventually worked his way…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 24, 2015

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Meet Homage, Coming to the FiDi from David Kurtz

We mentioned back in June that chef David Kurtz, previously of Maven, was taking over Galette 88’s space in the FiDi to open his own project, HOMAGE. We can now release some details, and FiDi workers, get excited. The name will make sense upon first glance at the menu,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 24, 2015

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Volta (Coming to SoMa from the Perbacco/Barbacco Team) Is Getting Close

We mentioned not too long ago that Staffan Terje and Umberto Gibin of Perbacco and barbacco were opening a new project, VOLTA, in the former ‘Witchcraft location in SoMa. Here’s a little update for you curious diners, because this modern brasserie is going to open in early December. The…

Marcia Gagliardi • Nov 24, 2015