The Chatterbox

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…

COCO5OO’s chef, Michael Morrison—a Mediterranean mixmaster known for his handmade pastas and wood oven-baked fish—has now taken the helm of THE MOSS ROOM, collaborating with owner Loretta Keller. He is also going to be the next featured chef in the LOCALIZE series of dinners from Noise 13…

A tablehopper reader tipped me off that ADDIE’S PIZZA PIE is now open in Berkeley. Berkeleyside has more details: the project is from Jennifer Millar of Sweet Adeline Bakeshop and Thomas Schnetz of Flora, serving almost ten kinds of New York-style pies, along with three kinds of frozen custard.…

Yeah, I am loving my neighborhood even more, because Sharon Ardiana’s second pizzeria-restaurant, ~RAGAZZA~, opens Wednesday September 22nd! The former Metro Kathmandu space has been spiffed up with red tiles, black walnut tables, suspended filament lights, and charming enlarged images of the women in Ardiana’s family (check out…

In early to mid-October, look for a new vendor to join the 331 Cortland Marketplace in Bernal Heights: SPICE HOUND will be offering a full selection of unique spices and gourmet salts in the space formerly occupied by Della Terra Organics. Spice Hound owner and spiceologist Tammy Tan, who started…

Ready for the ultimate brown bag lunch? 26 of San Francisco’s top restaurants are packing inspired, one-of-a-kind “brown bag” lunches to serve six, and auctioning them online to benefit the SFC Brown Bag Lunch Project. One hundred percent of proceeds from this BROWN BAG LUNCH AUCTION will go to…

Come on out and raise a drink to a great cause: Episcopal Community Services’s CHEFS (Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services) program is having a HAPPY HOUR FUNDRAISER at Taverna Aventine on Thursday September 30th, 5:30pm-7:30pm. These are the same folks who brought you SummerTini—join…

In Japanese, tabemasho means “let’s eat,” and that’s exactly what attendees will be doing on Saturday September 25th at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California’s annual fundraiser, TABEMASHO. Starting at 4pm, there will be a mochi-pounding event, then appetizers and a seated meal presented…