Marcia Gagliardi

Depending on where you work (or where you ladies like to lunch), here are three new lunch specials you can check out. First up is a $28 prix-fixe business lunch at CAMPTON PLACE RESTAURANT, where they will get you in and out in an hour. The menu is available during…

Now here’s a brilliant way to handle your vacation: while Elan and Brett Emerson of ~CONTIGO~ are in Spain for their honeymoon from October 12th-30th, they invited chef Mark Denham to be the guest chef in their absence. Mark will of course be bringing in a few whole animals,…

A few new pastry chefs around town: Sarah Ballard has left ~PERBACCO~ to take a break, and her replacement is Suzanne LaFleur. Her new dessert menu features zeppole (warm orange-scented doughnuts) with salted hazelnut caramel; chocolate torrone with marinated black berries; and lingue di gatto and fig leaf panna cotta…

Coming to the Civic Center/Tenderloin area at the end of the year will be MIRTILLE, a café that will be open all day and into the evening. The owners, François and Isabelle Chevillotte, are French—this will be their first business in San Francisco. Their focus is on serving…

Since chef Michael Morrison has taken over for Justin Simoneaux at ~THE MOSS ROOM~, his menu has taken a more Asian/modern Californian turn (it’s a style he knows well, since his background includes working at Ame). The new approach can really be seen with the appetizers on the…

Hmmmm, a lunch break of delicious bites while listening to Steve Sando (author of Heirloom Beans), Gordon (“Zola”) Edgar (author of Cheesemonger), food writer and cookbook editor Sarah Billingsley, and cookbook editor Amy Treadwell—sounds like the makings of a winning afternoon, right? This lunchtime event, LITQUAKE BITES, will have…

From October 8th through November 1st, local food writer Tamara Palmer (The Feast San Francisco, SFoodie, BayAreaBites/KQED) and fabric8 are presenting LOCAL FLAVOR, a group art show that’s all about the delicious relationship between the visual and culinary arts. Featured Bay Area artists include Jason Mecier, Reuben Rude,…