The Chatterbox

A tablehopper reader sent me this picture of the window sign in Glen Park’s wine bar spinoff of P’tit Laurent, SEL ET VIN. No official word from the owners yet about what’s going on, so stand by. 678 Chenery St. at Diamond, 415-333-2200. Yelper about town Jason…

August is chock-full of pop-up meals and shindigs (like it’s different from any other month). Here’s a sampling of the lineup that has blipped across my radar—and I am quite sure there will be more to announce in coming weeks: Chef Jeremy Fox will be at ~ORSON~…

Ready to get your hands greasy? Grab those napkins, because this Thursday August 4th is ~MAVERICK~’s Southern Fried Night, serving chicken wings and waffles, watermelon salad, fried green tomatoes, chicken fried steak, shrimp and grits, and more. And fans of FIREFLY’s “The Fried Chicken of Your Dreams” will…

20 years: not quite of legal drinking age yet, but that’s a commendable amount of time to be in business (and equally impressive: executive chef Kunihiko Oshikawa and master sushi chef Akifusa Tonai have both been with KYO-YA RESTAURANT since the restaurant’s opening in 1991). For the month…

With all the great produce that abounds in the summer, it’s a great time to develop (or hone) your cooking skills with some cool culinary classes. The CELLAR KITCHEN IN MACY’S UNION SQUARE is holding two exciting classes in August. On Saturday August 6th, 2pm-4pm, Azalina’s and…

More changes in the kitchen at ~CAFÉ DES AMIS~ in Cow Hollow: Bacchus Management Group has brought in chef Mark Sullivan (chef-partner of Spruce and The Village Pub) to overhaul the menu, while partner Gordon Drysdale is now overseeing the company’s Pizza Antica restaurants. Sullivan expects the menu to…

123 BOLINAS is coming up on a year of serving locally sourced, sustainably produced wine, beer, and food in Fairfax, and co-founders Dominic Phillips, James Gregory, Jacquelyn Mahaney, and Jeff Mahaney are ready to celebrate with a series of events now through Sunday August 7th. Tonight, August 2nd, 123 Bolinas…

Exciting news for Inner Sunset dwellers: later this year—say, October or November—~NOPALITO~ will be opening a second location in the former Bistro 9 space on 9th Avenue. The lease was just signed last week on the space, which is going to offer a significantly bigger kitchen for the…

I was waiting on a rendering of Martin Yan’s upcoming Westfield Centre project before writing about it, so here we go. Slated to open in February 2012 is M.Y. CHINA, a restaurant that will span modern and traditional Chinese cooking. Yan is working closely with rock stars Willy…

Back in April, I mentioned changes were afoot at the Capri restaurant space in the Castro. Taking its place will be CANELA, a Spanish-style restaurant from owners Mat Schuster (who has run cooking schools at Draeger’s and Whole Foods Markets), and Paco Cifuentes (who is Spanish, and will be…