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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…

This week's tablehopper: there will be baked Alaska.                     Garden magic at Filoli. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hello, hoppers. How you doing out there? I feel a little bit like Princess Leia in the trash compactor scene, but I’ve got this. Over the weekend, I led a 28-person group…

This week's tablehopper: starry nights.                     The sun was just setting while the fires were burning at Long Meadow Ranch’s Live Fire guest chef series this weekend. Photo: © tablehopper.com. It was such a pleasure to watch the James Beard Awards while I was eating my fava bean…

This week's tablehopper: I'm seeing Stars.                     And this is just the first page of a vintage Blue Fox menu! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Today is a really exciting day for me—I have dreamed of being able to host a vintage dinner in homage to the Blue…

This week's tablehopper: (no longer) illin' like Bob Dylan.                     Cold killing and garlic-loaded spicy beef noodle soup from King of Noodles. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Okay, sun, we see you! Please stay! I think this is it for the rain, right? Right?! I appreciate the urban jungle going…

This week's tablehopper: eggsactly.                     Spring frittata and thick slices of peppered bacon served on the old world dining table at Cafe Klaus. Photo: © tablehopper.com. It’s an eggy week, with Passover already under way, and Easter coming up this Sunday (for some places to go and tasty…

This week's tablehopper: book it.                     Flying high with an Aviation at the new Sequoia (on the fourth floor of Wayfare Tavern—details in today’s lush). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey, happy/unhappy Equal Pay Day! Women make 20 percent less than men, and the wage gap is even…

This week's tablehopper: the hopper is ready to Thai one on.                     One of the best abalone dishes I have ever had at Atelier Crenn at a lunch last week with the Basque Culinary Center. The Monterey Bay abalone was thinly sliced and topped with toasted seaweed, aioli, and…