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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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Tajine Returns (Again) to Polk Street public
The Chatterbox

Tajine Returns (Again) to Polk Street

And he’s back! Chef Mohamed Ghaleb gave me a call last week to tell me he will be moving back to Polk Street with his much-loved ~TAJINE~. He moved into the Indian Aroma space on Polk, and opened over the weekend. (This will be the fourth location for his…
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Marcia Gagliardi •
Eleven O One Opens on Polk public
The Chatterbox

Eleven O One Opens on Polk

On a tip-off from Grub Street, tablehopper intern Daniel Azarkman reports that Ike Aboubzou, owner of Bite on Sutter, is bringing a new late-night option to the Polk Street bar crowds: ELEVEN O ONE, in the former space of Hank’s Eats. The menu includes many of the popular sandwiches,…
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Boozin' at Outerlands public
The Lush

Boozin' at Outerlands

After applying for a liquor license many moons ago, ~OUTERLANDS~ is launching its petite cocktail program this evening. Co-owner David Muller bartended for five years prior to opening Outerlands, working at Slanted Door (with Erik Adkins and Jennifer Collieau) and Slow Club. The concise list (we’re talking two-four cocktails,…
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Marcia Gagliardi •
Easy Creole Pops Up This Week public
The Chatterbox

Easy Creole Pops Up This Week

Grant Gooding and Jess McCarter could never find home-style Creole food in the Bay Area quite like it is in the Big Easy, that is, damn good and damn cheap. So they made their own: EASY CREOLE is starting a pop-up restaurant on Wednesday May 25th at The Residence (starts…
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Taste 12 New Zealand Wines on May 31st public
The Lush

Taste 12 New Zealand Wines on May 31st

The Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco is hosting 12 New Zealand winemakers on Tuesday May 31st for a wine tasting at MO Bar and a four-course winemaker dinner at ~SILKS~. The wine tasting is nicely affordable at $30, and includes pairings with small bites from MO Bar from 5:30pm-7:30pm.…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Starlet

Chelsea Without a Handler

Ozumo Oakland had a surprise guest last Sunday: in the middle of a huge dinner rush before the Chelsea Handler show on Sunday the 15th, the headliner herself came in for a quick pre-show bite. There were reportedly some “shrieks of delight from the many lovely women dining and pounding…
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Oakland and Berkeley Openings public
The Chatterbox

Oakland and Berkeley Openings

RUDY’S CAN’T FAIL CAFE of Emeryville (yes, the place where Green Day’s Mike Dirnt is a co-owner) is opening a second location in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood in the beginning of June, just next door to the Fox Theater. A menu of classic American diner fare with…
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Saturday June 11th is the Marin County Wine Celebration public
The Lush

Saturday June 11th is the Marin County Wine Celebration

Beautiful scenery, beautiful wines, you can’t ask for much more. The Marin County Winegrowers Association is hosting the seventh annual MARIN COUNTY WINE CELEBRATION on Saturday June 11th at the Historic Escalle Winery in Larkspur to benefit the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. You’re invited to attend from 3pm-7pm…
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