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This week's tablehopper: booze cruise.                     The glorious Martinez at Comstock Saloon. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Did you notice the big alcohol shortage this weekend in North Beach? You can blame the tablehopper Barbary Coast cocktail crawl with Anchor Distilling Company, ha-ha. Saturday evening, a group of us gathered at…

This week's tablehopper: what's the hops?                     It’s meat pie weather! With pork belly, snails, and a suet crust (you can handle it). At Cockscomb. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Oooh, rainy day! Windy! Drama! Love it. I’m actually heading out in this mess for an invite…

This week's tablehopper: yum cha-cha-cha.                     The start to an elegant lunch at Yan Toh Heen at InterContinental Hong Kong, complete with an eye-popping jade place setting. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hi there! I am back from Hong Kong, a place that completely rocked my world on so many fronts.…

This week's tablehopper: it's (almost) dim sum o'clock.                     Roasted butternut squash and red onions with tahini and za’atar at an EatWith dinner (“Dinner in Three Acts”). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Buon giorno, or should I say, “nei ho” (Cantonese for hello!)! I will be…

This week's tablehopper: putting the fry in Friday.                     Delicata squash tempura with rosemary honey, pepato, and hazelnut cocaine (well, that’s what I called it) at The Alembic. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Greetings from the hopper infirmary, where if you call the “receptionist,” she sounds a lot like Brenda…

This week's tablehopper: jook joint.                     Today’s lunch at home: jook by Trilogi and barrel-aged sriracha by Sosu. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey there, ho there, hi there. Yours truly is a bit under the weather today. I managed to pick up someone’s nasty bug over the weekend,…

This week's tablehopper: fan-foie-kingtastic.                     Pork kimchi nabeyaki udon at Udon Mugizo. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Excuse me while I put down this lobe of foie gras, my new Chapstick. Ha! But yeah, with the almost-miraculous invalidation of the foie gras ban in California that seemed to come out of…

This week's tablehopper: city of quartz.                     My favorite dish of the trip: veal tartare crostino slathered with tonnato sauce at Bestia. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Welcome to 2015! I hope you started the new year with a bang. I had a stellar week in Los Angeles, catching up on…

This week's tablehopper: LA woman.                     Uni pâté at Union Larder. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Brrrr, how you all doing in your chilly Victorian and Edwardian abodes? Well, at least that’s the current state of my apartment, which means flannel pajamas are the attire of choice right now. (So…

This week's tablehopper: Santa baby.                     The many wonders of hot cocoa never cease to amaze. (At the Sir Francis Drake for holiday tea with Miss Hannah and her dear mother, Ms. Lisa.) Photo: © tablehopper.com. How’s your last-minute holiday shopping going? Is your eggnog consumption where it…