Marcia Gagliardi

The weather may be warm today, but come next week, you’ll probably be happy to cozy up in the ~BIG 4~ at the Huntington Hotel for their annual wild game dinner, running November 9th-13th. On the menu: appetizers like Brazilian piranha “chops” ($18), coffee-cacao and spice-cured Sika deer medallions…

MAMACITA in the Marina is turning five on Wednesday November 10th, and the restaurant is celebrating by offering everything on the menu for $5. Yup, the $18 duck leg “carnitas” tacos will be $5, the regular $17 carnitas, you guessed it, will be $5. Margaritas: $5. The only thing exempt…

Of course I have to do a shout-out for fellow Calabrese Rosetta Costantino, whose new book, My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy’s Undiscovered South, just came out. Here are some highlights of events and classes; read the complete list here. This Thursday November 4th is an all-Calabrian dinner…

This has good idea written all over it: on Sunday November 7th, ~18 REASONS~ is hosting The Smoothie Revolution, a brunch workshop with Vera Churilov and Aaron Drury. Here’s more: “Whether you want to detox, build muscle, or improve your skin glow, green smoothies may be the right choice…

Can our restaurant dining choices actually strengthen our ability to resist disease—and especially cancer? On Tuesday November 16th, from 6pm-9:30pm at BOCANOVA in Oakland’s Jack London Square, Rebecca Katz, nationally recognized author of the groundbreaking cookbooks One Bite at a Time and The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, will join…

An Event Recap by Daisy Chow Last Tuesday, Local Mission Eatery and Sarah Dvorak of the upcoming Mission Cheese co-hosted a MEET THE CHEESEMAKERS lab—it’s what you get when a roomful of cheese lovers spend the evening communing with four new(ish) local cheesemakers, and noshing on some…