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The Chatterbox

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The Chatterbox
August 12, 2008
The Chatterbox

August 12, 2008

This weekend was definitely an emotional one, because a favorite San Francisco restaurant, a food and wine institution, really, closed its doors this Saturday. ~RUBICON~, after 14 years of entertaining us, wining and dining us, educating us, and enchanting us, is no more. There are a number of reasons why…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

August 5, 2008

Rumblings over at Mint Plaza: looks like ~PETER GREERTY’S GASTRO-STEAKHOUSE PROJECT~ will not be happening in the 418 Jessie space. This was going to be the hefty project, with 120 seats total. No confirmed word on whether Il Buco is moving out here into the 54 Mint space either.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

July 29, 2008

Drama over at ~CAFE MAJESTIC~: GM Ryan Maxey is uh, suddenly no longer working there, and now executive chef Ian Begg and the bar manager have given their notice. Begg’s last day will be August 6th (hello restaurant folks, here are some quality folks to snap up!). The restaurant…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

July 22, 2008

Before diving in here, have you heard of ~TALK SHOW LIVE~? It’s a monthly variety show that just moved to 330 Ritch, and yours truly is going to be a guest on Monday, August 11th. The doors open for live Django-gypsy jazz music by Café Americain and mingling at…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

July 15, 2008

Thank you all for the nice notes after last week's CHEFS dinner recap. I wanted to post this letter below from Russell Rummer, the executive chef of Roots and Daffodil, who hires a lot of graduates from the ~CHEFS PROGRAM~ in his kitchens. I'm hoping some…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

July 8, 2008

Downtown just keeps getting interesting, I tell ya. To that end, here's on update on ~GITANE~ in Claude Lane, slated to open at the end of July. Looks like we'll have yet another spiffy place to score our citywide bad habit: yes, pizza. Executive chef Lisa…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

July 1, 2008

Have you noticed some key chefs have not been around lately, or are mysteriously heading off to New York for quick jaunts? Yup, I've heard from various sources that we have quite the local lineup of chefs who have been flying to New York to compete on upcoming…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
June 24, 2008
The Chatterbox

June 24, 2008

Been hearing some rumblings about ex-Myth chef ~SEAN O’BRIEN’S~ next gig—the ink isn’t dry so he asked me to wait a week. Stand by. Let’s just say if it all goes through, he’ll be back in SF. And that’s all I am allowed…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

June 17, 2008

Whoa, ~TOP CHEF~ is really over? Wednesdays just won’t be the same… but I certainly won’t miss Lisa’s “dead eye” and surly body posture at the judges’ table—bugged me every time. I was almost convinced Blaise was going to win it, but I’m so fired…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
June 10, 2008
The Chatterbox

June 10, 2008

I love me some big news. Things have been kind of quiet about the upcoming 240-seat ~URBAN TAVERN~ project at the San Francisco Hilton on O'Farrell Street. Donna Scala was helping to conceptualize and develop the high-end gastropub for the hotel—I heard a rumor that she was…
Marcia Gagliardi
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