The Chatterbox

DIRTY DISHES is going to be hosting their final event this Thursday December 16th: it’s going to be a combination holiday benefit for the Boys & Girls Clubs of SF Culinary Arts program and a grand finale. Proceeds from the special pre-sale only ticket package will go to the…

The Underground Market is turning one, and celebrating with a double-play of events in San Francisco and Oakland. On Saturday December 18th, swing by SomArts from 11am-4pm for take-homeables (jams, produce, soaps, desserts, etc.) and gifts, and then from 6pm-midnight for hot food and music. Please note the indoor market…

Coming up on Sunday December 19th is a new kind of show: STUDIO GOURMET, a combination talk show, live cooking demonstration, and cocktail reception with host Brad Lev at Cellar360 in Ghirardelli Square. His first guest will be chef de cuisine Martin Brock from Gary Danko. It all starts at…

An event recap by Daisy Chow, tablehopper editorial assistant. Last Wednesday, I got a chance to visit the pristine kitchen of Seasons restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco for a HOLIDAY DESSERT TASTING and hands-on pastry demo with their new pastry chef, Jeffrey Wurtz. Even though I don’…

With the departure of pastry chef Luis Villavelazquez from ~ABSINTHE BRASSERIE & BAR~ and Arlequin Café, the new executive pastry chef is the talented Bill Corbett, who is coming over from Daniel Patterson’s Coi and Plum. He was formerly at MICHAEL MINA restaurant, and prior to that, was at…

I was curious about ~STRAW~, a new Twitter follower I got last week, and then SFoodie broke the story: it’s going to be a 30-seat restaurant opening in the former J’s Pots of Soul (and the subsequent and short-lived Soul). Partners Ari Feingold, chef Naomi Beck, and Greg…

There aren’t many places in the Mission to get Mexican food and margaritas (and mezcal), but by next spring or summer, ~TACOLICIOUS~ will be opening a second location in the former New College building on Valencia Street. Chef Telmo Faria will be overseeing both locations. Highlights: an adjoining tequila…

On a quiet stretch of Brannan in SoMa, there’s a new café that has opened called SHOWPLACE CAFFÈ—it has opened in a previously vacant office area of The Showplace Motor Works. Owner Catherine Twardos, a resident of the neighborhood, was unhappy with the dearth of coffee places in…