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This week's tablehopper: chipmunk TV.                     True blue, Lake Tahoe, I love you. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Greetings from 6,207 feet. It’s been so fun hanging out with blue jays and chipmunks and thankfully no bears this year. I’m getting ready to descend from my Tahoe Tahoma…

This week's tablehopper: home sweet Tahoma/Stayhoma.                     Chambers Landing in the evening. Yes, it’s for real. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Greetings from dreamy Lake Tahoe, gang. I’ve been enjoying some family time here at our cabin, and bonus, my parents bring their two cats up with them,…

This week's tablehopper: teach me how to Dougie.                     This is how The Douglas Room pairs party snacks with a whisky tasting: smoky duck confit, Comté cheese, fig jam, and watercress on brioche! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey y’all. Thanks to all 40 of you who attended the tablehopper…

This week's tablehopper: pie in the sky.                     Bless the friends who show up with two homemade pies with fruit from their land. And two tubs of vanilla ice cream. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy. How was your weekend? I had a long one up in Bolinas to celebrate a…

This week's tablehopper: high-minded.                     Beautiful squash and blossom frittata with carrot top pistou by Pesha Perlsweig for our elevated brunch with Pot d’Huile. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey there! Hope you had a smashing, sunny weekend. Mine was definitely busy. I helped plan and cohost a 60-person brunch…

This week's tablehopper: set it off.                     The Corn Husker (whiskey, corn water, honey) is one way to get your heat on with Lord George’s latest Mavericks menu, Summer Road Trip! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Wait, what? What’s that? You can’t hear me? Or wait, maybe I…

This week's tablehopper: sun chaser.                     SF, I’m blowing you the biggest kiss from a fantastic Pink Saturday—and of course Karl the Fog came to celebrate Pride. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey San Francisco, that was one hell of a Pride celebration this year, well done. Strong community,…

This week's tablehopper: hot town, summer in the city.                     Keep these boozy ice creams comin’! This is a rosé ice cream at Petit Marlowe, a collaboration with Scribe Winery and Smitten. Photo: © tablehopper.com. SF, way to rock the sunny weekend! So good to play in a pool…

This week's tablehopper: sawatdee-kaaaaaaaaa!                     Megawatt smiles and cuteness during a Pencils for Kids visit to the Praratchadamri Church Project in Chiang Rai. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hiiiiii! I’m back from the land of smiles, and I really do feel like I have been living in a happy bubble…

This week's tablehopper: in pane, vita; in vino, letizia.                     Alfred’s dug out the Blue Fox valet parking sign for our event! Photo: Blair Heagerty Photography. That’s what the menu and matchbooks of the former Blue Fox say (“In Pane, Vita; In Vino, Letizia”), and on Friday…