Marcia Gagliardi

We have quite a few new chef appointments to announce, starting with ~BIX~, who now has Edward Higgins as chef de cuisine (executive chef-partner Bruce Hill continues to be busy with Fog City). His background includes NYC’s Craft, Hearth, and Insieme, plus Ekki at the Four Seasons Hotel…

I was so sorry to receive a tweet from TO HYANG last week that they were unable to renew their lease and were going to close at the end of May. No! And then things got worse: the experience was so stressful for the chef-owner, Hwa-Soon Im, that…

A report from Eater has the news that chef Kevin Chen, who previously worked at Umami, Ebisu, and Okazu Ya, and his business partner, Judy Chen, have opened a new restaurant in the Inner Richmond. It’s called KAIJU EATS and serves a creative spin on Japanese food. The  pint-…

~TOSCA CAFE~ is now offering a special Red Sauce Sunday supper from 5pm to closing. The suppers are served family style for groups of four to eight, and will feature a selection of Italian classics like Caesar salad, garlic knots, braised meatballs, their awesome bucatini, pork shank and sausage with…

After noting some ABC license activity, we were wondering what was going into the former Sea Salt space on San Pablo in Berkeley. Scoop reports that David Stevenson of neighboring Paisan has taken over the space. He’s calling the project THE LONGBRANCH, which is an homage to the Berkeley…