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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May 29, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: wine o'rock. public
Newsletter

May 29, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: wine o'rock.

This week's tablehopper: wine o'rock.                     At Californios, chef Val Cantu’s “Yerba Buena Fruit Cup.” Photo: © tablehopper.com. And boom, it’s Friday. That was fast. You know what also was fast? How quickly the tickets went for the tablehopper Negroni crawl in North Beach. Wow.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Huxley public
The Regular

Huxley

What is a neighborhood restaurant in this shifting city landscape of ours? HUXLEY straddles two worlds: on one hand, it’s tucked in the Tenderloin, a small space that feels very urban, with friendly, heavily tattooed servers and West Coast hip-hop dialed up. On the other hand, the urbane one,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Harbor Village Returns...to Diamond Heights! public
The Chatterbox

Harbor Village Returns...to Diamond Heights!

A tablehopper tipster alerted us to the news that the much-loved Harbor Village restaurant—the popular and well-appointed dim sum restaurant in Embarcadero Four that sadly closed 10 years ago (in 2005)—is rising from the deep freeze and reopening in the All Season Restaurant space in the Diamond Heights…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Meet the New Chef de Cuisine at Bix: Emmanuel Eng public
The Chatterbox

Meet the New Chef de Cuisine at Bix: Emmanuel Eng

Some exciting news over at ~BIX~: Emmanuel Eng is the new chef de cuisine (he was previously at Bartlett Hall). Eng actually started at Bix midway through February and has reportedly won over the crew with his work ethic and skills. Executive chef-partner Bruce Hill adds that he “also brings…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Sad News: Dottie's True Blue for Sale public
The Chatterbox

Sad News: Dottie's True Blue for Sale

We had heard rumors that DOTTIE’S TRUE BLUE CAFE might be for sale, and now Scoop has confirmed it. Owner Kurt Abney says that after 22 years in business, he is, quite simply, tired. According to the ad, the restaurant does approximately 350 covers a day, and Abney is…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
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