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This week's tablehopper: the year of the horse is off and running.                     One of my favorite dishes at Verbena: sardine and steelhead roe (with a parsnip chip). Photo: © tablehopper.com. You ready for an issue packed with sneak peeks and openings? Well, you’ve got it. Last week…

This week's tablehopper: pregaming.                     What I was doing last Sunday: eating fried chicken and waffles at Victory Hall and Parlor! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Kung Hei Fat Choi! Chuc Mung Nam Moi! And…that’s about the extent of my Asian language skills. Happy Lunar New Year to all…

This week's tablehopper: courting the fog, flirting with rain.                     I had a taste of the tortilla soup at La Condesa Napa, and now it haunts me. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I never thought I’d be so happy to hear the foghorn this morning, and see some rain in…

This week's tablehopper: blackberries and blue skies.                     Buoys on Lummi Island. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Why hello! You already plotting your weekend? Whaddya know, it’s sunny again. I hope everyone doesn’t start acting like we’re in LA, wearing sunglasses to dinner and having your people call…

This week's tablehopper: meat and cheese parade.                     The 21POP display at FOG Fair, complete with a wood stove (crafted by Stanlee Gatti’s team)! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey there, ho there, hi there. It was quite the action-packed weekend: I was up bright and early on Saturday morning…

This week's tablehopper: food-o-rama.                     Dim sum from a preview of Hakkasan’s Chinese New Year menu. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Ahhh, weekend, how good to see you at our doorstep. What’s that? You want to bring us 72-degree weather tomorrow? Okay, if you insist. (Although you are really…

This week's tablehopper: back in action.                     Una montaña de amor: the Dungeness crab tostada at Sabrosa. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I am beginning to feel like I moved back to LA with all this sunny weather, and no, I am not complaining for one single second. Although I will…

This week's tablehopper: wine (and whine).                     A taste of the extremely limited 2012 Vinhedos Hood pinot noir (by Mario Geisse). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Bom dia! Yup, someone has been going through all her notes and pictures from her visit to Brazil last year, and I am suddenly very…

This week's tablehopper: I'm just illin', like Bob Dylan.                     I’d much rather be drinking the utterly delicious Trouble in Paradise at Tosca. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hola, amigos. Things are a little rough over here at hopper HQ, with both yours truly and Dana, my…

This week's tablehopper: jazz hands.                     Topping it off with my dear sister at Marianne’s. Photo by Aubrie Pick. Why hello there. Happy New Year to you! I hope you’ve been having a fantastic holiday and start to the new year. I have thoroughly been enjoying the…