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This week's tablehopper: ram tough.                     A Sazerac and baked oysters Simoneaux at Boxing Room. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hopefully you got enough vitamin D flowing in your system this past sunny weekend so you don’t care about this chilly and gray Mardi Gras. Whatever, we’re not under…

This week's tablehopper: hizzy-kaya.                     The hi-low katsu with cheese at Rintaro (a kind of deliciously dirty dish elevated with excellent Riverdog chicken). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hello, my fellow spoiled citizens of the Bay Area. Yeah, that’s a 72-degree forecast we’re looking at for this weekend in…

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…