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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…

This week's tablehopper: hot toddy.                     The justifiably famed fried chicken at Miss Ollie’s (with seriously incendiary hot sauce on the side). Photo: © tablehopper.com. How are my fellow chilly San Franciscans? Based on all the complaining I am seeing on Twitter, I would say not so great.…

This week's tablehopper: suite judy blue eyes.                     40th birthday oysters and Billecart-Salmon. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Welcome back from your holiday weekend. How wonderful to have a couple of extra days off, I swear. Am currently enjoying a huge batch of jook I made with our leftover turkey,…

This week's tablehopper: a toast to kindness.                     A bountiful brunch table at my dear friend Roberta’s house. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Some days, this intro letter of mine is really fun to write. Today, not so much. I have been a bit heartbroken the past couple of days:…

This week's tablehopper: 20th century fox.                     Hollandaise and ham and cheese soldiers at The Cavalier. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy. Friday is here, and our city got a nice bath this week, and an air dry too (what was up with that wind last night?). I’m pretty dang…

This week's tablehopper: chugga chugga.                     HomeFarm peach and Champagne vinegar shrub at SHED. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I have a feeling I am not alone in my excitement over the cloudy, rainy skies today. I have been loving this sunny November (kind of crazy, this month), but it’s…

This week's tablehopper: love handles.                     A closer look at the newly opened Merigan’s Italian combo. Yeah, it’s amazing. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Friday Friday Friday! And there’s nary a cloud in sight. Reason number 6,843 why I live in California. This week was chock-full…

This week's tablehopper: backlash.                     A dish from a Californios dinner at Naked Kitchen: Yerba Buena Fruit Cup Under the C. Photo: © tablehopper.com. So anyone who follows food media has been watching the ripples, nay, waves of rage that followed the release of Time magazine’s “Gods of…

This week's tablehopper: tantanmen meow meow.                     Spicy tantanmen ramen at Ramen Shop in Oakland. You want this. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I haven’t been this excited to see the end of a week in awhile—Friday, so glad you showed up! Damn, you look great! I felt like…