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Meet the Makers: Wine and Sake Dinners for Your Radar

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The Lush

Meet the Makers: Wine and Sake Dinners for Your Radar

Check out these spiffy wine and sake dinners coming up soon. First, at ~PICCINO~ you can meet winemakers from the Alps at two different wine dinners. The first is on Wednesday May 22nd and features wines and makers from Cima Presanella in Italy. Then, on Wednesday June 19th, check out…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 14, 2013

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(Sponsored): Golden Glass Is Back This Summer: Sip with a View June 29th

Slow Food San Francisco’s 9th annual Golden Glass brings together wine and food artisans in celebration of Slow Food’s work to advocate for sustainability, biodiversity, and preservation of food traditions. On Saturday June 29th, sip wine from sustainable wine producers, enjoy tasty bites from the Bay Area’s…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 14, 2013

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East Bay Openings and News

As previously announced in tablehopper, a new project called NEXT DOOR RESTAURANT was opening in the former Addie’s Pizza Pie space in the Lorin neighborhood in Berkeley. The project (from San Francisco Housing Authority Director Henry August Alvarez III and his wife, Dionne Roberts, working with chef Sharon Lorraine…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 14, 2013

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May 14, 2013 - This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air.

This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air. This is what heaven looks like: a party platter o’ nigiri at ICHI Sushi. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Helllllo there. I think I have managed to shake last week’s Jazz Fest remnants from my head—sleep is a miraculous thing.…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

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This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air.

Helllllo there. I think I have managed to shake last week’s Jazz Fest remnants from my head—sleep is a miraculous thing. Although I am hardly detoxing: last week I attended a Winebow Italian wine tasting, had a night of Austrian wines from Willi Klinger at et. al., tasted…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

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The Socialite

Check Out the Mega Food, Wine, and Beer Lineup at Outside Lands

Leave it to San Francisco to be as excited for the lineup of food (and wine and beer) vendors as for the music lineup at OUTSIDE LANDS this year (August 9th-11th). (Some are perhaps even more fired up for the vittles.) The majority of the audience will assuredly have…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

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Save the Date: Summertini CHEFS Benefit June 7th

Get ready to enjoy some fabulous food for a fabulous cause at the ninth annual SUMMERTINI bash, which is shaping up to be the best one yet. The party is happening Friday June 7th at the Bently Reserve. This year, the restaurant lineup is just amazing! It includes A16, Nopa,…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

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The Chatterbox

Coming in September from Liza Shaw: Merigan Sub Shop

Liza Shaw—the talented powerhouse of a chef who has worked at A16, Acquerello, and most recently consulting in Wine Country on the pizzas at Redd Wood and Pizzando—is finally ready to formally announce her next venture: MERIGAN SUB SHOP. I have been hearing about (and anxiously awaiting) her…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013

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Big News from Brenda's: They're Opening a New Café (Libby Jane Café) on Polk St.

Brenda Buenviaje writes in with some great news: she and wife/business partner Libby Truesdell are opening a new café on Polk Street, just two doors down from the current ~BRENDA’S FRENCH SOUL FOOD~. Her blog mentions that it will be called LIBBY JANE CAFÉ after Libby (awwww). Anyone…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013

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Dierk's Midtown, Chalkboard Open While Empire and NVB Put on Finishing Touches

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. There’s good news and there’s, well, pretty good news about the opening of DIERK’S MIDTOWN CAFE (the offshoot of the brunch-tacular Dierk’s Parkside): The veggie stack is back. If you time it right you…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013