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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…

This week's tablehopper: sleigh bells ring, are you listening?                     Tom and Jerry’s Christmas house on 21st Street, one of my favorite things about San Francisco. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hey there, hi there, ho ho ho there. I know everyone is crazy busy right now, but I hope…

This week's tablehopper: on dasher, and dancer, and...champers?                     How to do brunch right: arancini, salumi, and Rosa frizzante at Ca’Momi in Napa. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Whooooooa Nelly, Christmas Eve is just a week away? This month is flying. Fortunately the weekend is full of holiday parties,…

This week's tablehopper: cold snapped.                     My favorite dish this week: Arctic char tartare at Salt House (handily doing double duty as a wreath). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Bonjour, friends. I am fired up that today is Friday, which means I’m punching out early to head up to Napa…

This week's tablehopper: decembrrrrr.                     A stunning “insalata di patate” (potato salad, heh heh) dish at SPQR, with three kinds of potatoes, sturgeon, ikura, and more. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I can’t take credit for today’s title (thanks Steven Oliver!) but we certainly are living it. I’d…