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October 2, 2012 - This week's tablehopper: weekend warrior.

This week's tablehopper: weekend warrior. The insane BLAT (bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato) sandwich at The Thomas. (And hello, I only ate half.) Photo: © tablehopper.com. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I adore the heat, especially warm nights with heavy full moons up in the sky.…

Marcia Gagliardi • Oct 01, 2012

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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: weekend warrior.

Anyone who knows me well knows how much I adore the heat, especially warm nights with heavy full moons up in the sky. I must admit I will be missing my Alfa Romeo tonight as I drive across the Golden Gate Bridge (don’t tell the Fiat, she’ll get…

Marcia Gagliardi • Oct 01, 2012

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The Socialite

Fleet Week Parties: Off the Pier and Sky-High Party at the Mandarin Oriental

The Blue Angels are coming this weekend! And the sailors! Fleet Week is kind of the best. Find yourself a good viewing post, because it’s going to be awesome, especially if this heat keeps up. Here are a couple of places where you can get a bite, a drink,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Oct 01, 2012

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707 Scout

Bloomfield Farms, Ghost Tours, Three Squares, Top Chef Dinner

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. “Mommy, I picked lettuce!” is the kind of gleeful exclamation you’ll hear over and over in the fields of BLOOMFIELD FARMS. Each Sunday through October, the family-operated organic farm will open its barn doors and set folks loose…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 28, 2012

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September 28, 2012 - This week's tablehopper: better, faster, shorter.

This week's tablehopper: better, faster, shorter. Tuna crudo at Commonwealth with lardo and melon. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hola amigos. Big thanks to everyone who wrote in with headache remedies for me—after four days, that damn thing finally took a hike. It made me step back and take…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 27, 2012

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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: better, faster, shorter.

Hola amigos. Big thanks to everyone who wrote in with headache remedies for me—after four days, that damn thing finally took a hike. It made me step back and take a look at my stress level, which has not been ideal lately. I hate this feeling of always being…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 27, 2012

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The Regular

Comal

I admit that as a San Franciscan I can get a bit landlocked with my restaurant choices—Bay Bridge traffic can suck up a couple of hours I don’t have to spare. Fortunately COMAL in Berkeley is literally a block from the Berkeley BART station, which also means I…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 27, 2012

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The Chatterbox

MAU to Open (Softly) on Valencia Wednesday

As previously mentioned on tablehopper, Sante Salvoni is back at the ovens and about to open a new restaurant on Valencia. His partners in the venture are Hung Dang (Tin Vietnamese in SoMa) and husband-wife team Annie Abbott and Luke Wendler. The new spot is called ~MAU~ and will be…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 25, 2012

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The Chatterbox

Company Now Open in Former Tao Café Space in the Mission

About a month ago, tablehopper broke the news about the name of the new restaurant opening in the former Tao Café space at Guerrero and 22nd Street: ~COMPANY~. Or as I like to remember it, the old Flying Saucer space. Anyway, chef-partners Karen Hoffman and Jason Poindexter (previously of Four…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 25, 2012

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The Chatterbox

Lauren Kiino Launching Two SoMa Projects

Over the weekend I got a note from Lauren Kiino of ~IL CANE ROSSO~ in the Ferry Building Marketplace about not just one but two new SoMa projects she is working on: RED DOG and FEARLESS (you may have seen the story in the Scoop here). The bigger project is…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 25, 2012