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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.

June 30, 2009
The Chatterbox

June 30, 2009

The opening for ~TRADEMARK~ in the former Voda space in Belden Alley is looking like this Friday, or next Monday. To recap, this 85-seater is from Peter Snyderman of Elite Café and the Café Bastille/Plouf/B44 crew of Olivier Azancot and Eric Klein. The deets: it's a…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
June 30, 2009
The Lush

June 30, 2009

If all goes well, Bourbon & Branch's ~RICKHOUSE~ will be soft opening this Wednesday. (It's the bar that is opening in the former Ginger's Trois space in the Financial District.) It's quite the looker—you can take a peek at some preliminary…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Starlet

June 30, 2009

(Anyone want to play six degrees of Kevin Bacon with this lineup? It's quite the hodgepodge.) A tablehopper reader spotted Jeffery Self from Logo Network's Jeffery & Cole Casserole having drinks in the lounge at Jardinière last Thursday. Matthew McConaughey had dinner with five friends at…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
June 30, 2009
What’s Cookin’

June 30, 2009

I don't really need to explain why this week's issue is royally abridged—things are heatin' up in manuscript land. Or at least are gettin' heavy. The first part of my manuscript is due Monday… eep. May stress-related temporary blindness or carpal tunnel syndrome…
Marcia Gagliardi
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June 23, 2009
The Chatterbox

June 23, 2009

What is touted to be the City's greenest café, ~THE PLANT CAFE ORGANIC~ will open this Thursday June 25th in Pier 3 on the city's waterfront, just north of the Ferry Building. It's a spacious one: 4,600 square feet, and 112 seats. CCS…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Lush

June 23, 2009

Thanks to our city's electronic ABC permit system, yesterday I noticed what the location of Martin Cate's ~SMUGGLERS COVE~ is going to be, and I didn't even have to suffer through the brain teaser (or hurter) Cate has been hosting (it was designed to…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

June 23, 2009

A tablehopper reader was at brunch at Foreign Cinema on Sunday and saw Neil Patrick Harris. He was brunching with his partner, a producer, and another female. Another reader wrote in: "Gavin Rossdale of Bush and married to Gwen Stefani fame was having dinner at Orson this past Saturday…
Marcia Gagliardi
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June 23, 2009
What’s Cookin’

June 23, 2009

(Photo: Eggs in a cazuela from brunch at Olea.) This book is putting me into overdrive, packing my calendar full of restaurant revisits and fab tastes around town (I will admit, I love what is "research" for me right now), including the divine hummus and baked-to-order pita at…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Fourth of July
The Socialite

Fourth of July

Photo: bluePantone292 Any San Franciscan knows the ~FOURTH OF JULY~ is a foggy joke of a night, with colored fog and barbecuing while in mittens and fleece. Here are a few dining options around town where the wind and fog won't matter: CAV By popular demand they'…
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