The Lush

As if you needed a reason to have another bloody Mary at brunch, but here’s one anyway. SEASONS at the Four Seasons Hotel has launched a Bottomless Bloody Mary Bar for weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday, featuring unlimited top-shelf vodka. Your bottomless vodka choices include Absolut, Hangar One,…

This Friday October 7th, Bottlenotes is hosting one of their tasting events, Around Napa Valley in 80 Sips. There will be over 80 Napa Valley wines poured, plus cheese, charcuterie, and more. The event organizers are giving away a pair of tickets each to the first five tablehopper readers who…

I always enjoy attending this event: Wine & Spirits magazine will host its eighth annual Top 100 Tasting Event on Wednesday October 12th, from 6:30pm-8:30pm, at City View at METREON in San Francisco. The 100 wineries from around the world selected for the Top 100 event have delivered…

After some liquor license activity a few months ago for the site that was most recently The Room Ultra Lounge, some new details have emerged about the next incarnation. It will be transformed into MONARCH, a project from Tadd Cortell (CAV Wine Bar), Manny Alferez (Triple Crown, and known by…

After the SF Cocktail Week Legends Awards wrapped up on Saturday night, I had a chance to hit the after party in HARRY DENTON’S STARLIGHT ROOM and check out the new look by Dawson Design Associates. It’s still very glitzy and glam, with lots of red and gold…

Guess what I cracked open shortly after my return from Turkey? Yup, a bottle of Champagne (Henriot, to be exact)—you won’t find that being poured by the glass in Istanbul restaurants. Mama was thirsty! And this event tomorrow night (Wednesday September 28th) at ~QUINCE~ is going to be…

There are numerous Oktoberfest events and special beer releases happening around town, but here are a couple for your radar. Through October 16th, SCHMIDT’S is offering a full lineup of Oktoberfest specials: 10 seasonal Märzen beers only available for a short time in the fall, two beer flights served…

The brown is back for the fifth annual WHISKYFEST SAN FRANCISCO on Friday October 7th. Join Malt Advocate magazine in the Grand Ballroom of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis for the country’s largest whisky celebration, featuring 250 of the finest, rarest, and most expensive single malt and blended whiskies…

You can never have too much of a good thing, right? Like beer. That’s why you should make plans to attend the San Francisco Brewers Guild’s eighth annual BREWS ON THE BAY festival on Saturday September 10th, noon-5pm, on the deck of the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien…

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and that’s just what the folks at MateVeza and ~PUBLIC HOUSE~ are doing with Beerunch, the beer ‘n’ brunch event they held in February that was such a success that they’re doing it again on Sunday September 18th. You…