Marcia Gagliardi

The next time your sweet tooth strikes, you better hope it’s on a weekday from 5pm-7pm, because that’s when you can head on over to MIETTE in Hayes Valley for $1 macarons! Yup, it’s a macaron happy hour. 449 Octavia St. at Linden, 415-626-6221. Photo © 2010 Frankeny…

Now open in the Ferry Building is SIDEKICK, the latest venture from Sue Conley and Peggy Smith of Cowgirl Creamery—they moved into the former (and adjacent) LuLu Petite space in the Ferry Building Marketplace. It’s basically a cheese and dairy bar, offering everything from a variety of mozzarellas…

A few mini-Mission items: according to Uptown Almanac, it looks like there is finally some activity in the long-closed LA RONDALLA: the space is currently gutted, and according to workers on site, the owners hope to open before Christmas. There are no changes on the liquor license, so it looks…

After some delays and final inspections, ~THE SUMMIT~ will finally be opening this Thursday September 30th. To recap a previous tablehopper posting, hours are Sun-Mon 8am-11pm and Tue-Sat 8am-2am; within that timing, pastries are available 8am-5pm, the lunchtime menu is from 10:30am-3pm, dinner is 5:30pm-11pm, and dessert service…

Looks like the HENRY’S HUNAN empire is going to open their sixth spot in the Excelsior: they will be opening their latest location in the former Granada Cafe. There will be 80-90 seats, with a full bar. The target date is the end of November or beginning of December.…

Yeah baby, it’s all about street food, all the time! The latest location for the OFF THE GRID truck and street food stand gatherings is Saturdays on McCoppin, that little dead lot right next to the U-Haul store off Valencia Street. You know, the place you go to score…