The Lush

San Francisco’s second annual AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 SIPS wine tasting by Bottlenotes returns to ~CRUSHPAD~. Guests attending the walk-around tasting can try over 80 wines from boutique and estate wineries around the world, including France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, California, Israel, Lebanon and even Thailand. There will…

This one’s a biggie: after ten years as the wine director of ~THE DINING ROOM AT THE RITZ-CARLTON~, Stephane Lacroix is resigning and moving to New York. He is going to be the GM at Gilt, the luxe restaurant in the New York Palace that earned two Michelin stars…

~WATERBAR~ has updated its popular happy hour offerings, renaming it the “Come Unhinged!” Happy Hour. It runs every Monday through Friday from 3pm-6pm, with $5 specialty cocktails, $5 glasses of La Marca prosecco and Nick’s Cuvée pinot grigio, and $3 bottles of Session Premium Lager, plus the featured oyster…

Upon my return home from India, I took a peek at the lineup of events for SF BEER WEEK and was completely blown away. The schedule is hefty—read it and prepare to get thirsty. And hungry. There’s a lot to choose from, but here are some that caught…

Mmmm, Sassicaia. Here’s more from ~SPRUCE~ on this sure-to-be-super (Tuscan) dinner: “Sassicaia translates to ‘a place of many stones.’ The rocky vineyard is located at 80 meters altitude and is the label responsible for creating the Super-Tuscan movement. For the first time in Italy’s history a DOC was…

San Francisco Beer Week 2010 (AKA SFBW10) is set for February 5th-14th. There’s quite the range of events coming together. Here’s a glimpse: beer dinners at The Republic, Beretta, Monk’s Kettle, Cafe Biere, and The Boilerhouse; the Beer-Chef’s beer and chocolate dinner on Treasure Island; an…

I’m a fan of food-friendly LIOCO wines—this dinner at ~SPRUCE~looks like a great way to savor a bunch of them at once! From the event announcement: “LIOCO is the result of an ongoing conversation between Matt Licklider, a seasoned wine import
 specialist, and Kevin O’Connor, former…