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Laszlo Getting an Update, and a Look at Nicky Beyries's New Cocktails at Foreign Cinema

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The Lush

Laszlo Getting an Update, and a Look at Nicky Beyries's New Cocktails at Foreign Cinema

Last week I got to take a break from my fire hose of email (LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT OUR SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S EVE PRIX-FIXE DINNER!) and head on over to the bar at ~FOREIGN CINEMA~, where the new bar manager for both Foreign Cinema and Laszlo, Nicky…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 15, 2015

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(Sponsored): Give the Gift of a Cooking Class This Holiday!

The chefs at our Parties That Cook Kitchen in North Beach teach completely hands-on classes where guests prepare recipes in teams and get to learn tips and tricks to create a great meal. Gift that aspiring cook an International Street Food class, a healthy Mediterranean Cooking Class, Super Bowl…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 15, 2015

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The Chatterbox

510 Updates: Chef Michele Belotti Opening Belotti, Details on Itani Ramen and Shiba Ramen

Bergamo native and chef Michele Belotti, who has been at SF’s ~RISTOBAR~ since 2011, left the restaurant a couple of weeks ago and will be opening his own project in Rockridge, BELOTTI. It’s going to be a combination restaurant and pasta shop, where you can come by for…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 15, 2015

Bar Shots: Elbo Room Lives On, Ken Furusawa to 1300 on Fillmore

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The Lush

Bar Shots: Elbo Room Lives On, Ken Furusawa to 1300 on Fillmore

By Dana Eastland. After many months of speculation, meetings, and stories, it looks like beloved Mission bar ELBO ROOM is going to stay open—at least through the end of 2017. Woohoo! Eater caught the news on the bar’s Facebook page. We’ll happily drink to that. 647 Valencia…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 15, 2015

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December 15, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

This week's tablehopper: let it flow, let it flow, let it flow! Holiday heaven: a plate of blini, a martini glass filled with caviar, and you know my other glass was full of Champagne. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Greetings from Champers the elf, just checking in and making sure…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 14, 2015

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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: let it flow, let it flow, let it flow!

Greetings from Champers the elf, just checking in and making sure you are having your proper daily bubbles allotment? I will definitely be upping my intake this Saturday at Solage’s Sparkle and Savor event with Michel Gonet in Calistoga. I will actually be emceeing the event and am extra-…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 14, 2015

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The Socialite

New Year's Eve Happenings to Toast 2016 in Style

New Year’s Eve is coming in hot on Thursday December 31st, and if you’re not headed out to a party, it’s time to think about where to have dinner. OpenTable is, as ever, a great resource for reservations since everyone in town is doing something. Here are…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 14, 2015

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The Bookworm

This Season's Holiday Cookbooks by Pete Mulvihill

Another holiday season is upon us, and another rich bounty of cookbooks has sprung from Bay Area cooks. Sure, there are many other worthy food books out there (Spuntino, The Nordic Cookbook, Pop Chart Lab’s A Visual Guide to Drink, etc.). But the Bay Area’s intersection of ingredients…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 11, 2015

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The Chatterbox

Holiday (and Host/ess) Gift Ideas from the Hopper

The holidays are here, and I know you’re being hit with a million gift guides, but here are a few more ideas for what to get the food lovers in your life. We also have some past gift guides here and here that have some still very relevant and…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 11, 2015

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707 Scout

Brunch at Ninebark, Best Sonoma Restaurant Openings of 2015, More

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Napa’s recently opened NINEBARK will begin brunch service this weekend, featuring a lineup of sweet and savory dishes including bread pudding with crème anglaise, a fried oyster po’boy, smoked seafood Benedict, and the Ninebark burger. Morning cocktails…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 11, 2015