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Subscribe to tablehopper and discover why it’s a must-read, insider newsletter for anyone who lives to eat in San Francisco, for 19 years and counting. Every Tuesday, columnist and curator Marcia Gagliardi serves up the latest SF Bay Area restaurant and bar news, events, culture tips, travel guides, and more.

Let's Have a Little Chaat
The Chatterbox

Let's Have a Little Chaat

This was definitely something I was looking forward to coming home to, in an effort to assuage my acute Indian food cravings: VIK’S CHAAT CORNER has opened in a new and larger space just a couple blocks away from its original location. Can’t wait to get my Mumbai…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

The Governator Visits Los Altos

With a promise of “I’ll be back,” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger left behind a pleasantly surprised lunch crowd at Zitune, the modern Moroccan restaurant in Los Altos. No one knows what the gov, a friend, and staffer were doing in the area, and the restaurant refused to say what kind…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Chatterbox

Molecular Gastronomy Comes to Shallow Alto

After chef Bruno Chemel’s abrupt departure from Mountain View’s Chez TJ, he has now opened his own place, BAUMÉ in Palo Alto. Named after French chemist Antoine Baumé, the contemporary French menu is going to give your wallet a workout (five courses for $78, ten for $108, fifteen…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Tenuta San Guido: Sassicaia
 Dinner at Spruce
The Lush

Tenuta San Guido: Sassicaia
 Dinner at Spruce

Mmmm, Sassicaia. Here’s more from ~SPRUCE~ on this sure-to-be-super (Tuscan) dinner: “Sassicaia translates to ‘a place of many stones.’ The rocky vineyard is located at 80 meters altitude and is the label responsible for creating the Super-Tuscan movement. For the first time in Italy’s…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
(Sponsored): Roses with a Capital R
The Sponsor

(Sponsored): Roses with a Capital R

Farm-Grown Roses at Whole Foods Market Something tells us you’ll be buying a dozen roses this weekend or next. If you pick up those dozen roses from Whole Foods Market, they will be bigger and stronger than the others you could buy. Whole Foods Market carries ethically raised…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Bar Agricole
The Hardhat

Bar Agricole

This section is written by Erin Archuleta, half of the talent behind local outfit ICHI Catering and ICHI Lucky Cat Deli (coming soon to 331 Cortland in Bernal Heights). For updates, follow @ICHISUSHI on Twitter. Outside of the foodie world, Erin works full-time championing kid literacy at 826 National.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
February 2, 2010 - a passage from India.
Newsletter

February 2, 2010 - a passage from India.

This week's tablehopper: a passage from India.                     A Chowpatty beach night vendor. Namaskar! After three remarkable weeks in Southern India, I am back! Well, almost: I am still making my way through 1,300 emails and 2,500 RSS feed headlines, but I’m getting close. And this…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Valentine's Day
The Socialite

Valentine's Day

Lurve it, hate it, VALENTINE’S DAY has its permanent place on the calendar, so there’s no way around it. You gotta get through it, somehow, whether it’s by gorging on chocolate, or hibernating for 24 hours. And of course my inbox is always crammed with a ton…
Marcia Gagliardi
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