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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.

Art's Cafe
The Regular

Art's Cafe

I have three words for you: hash brown sandwich. It's a straight-up brilliant addition to the usual line-up of breakfast suspects. Take that, omelette and French toast and eggs Benedict! In all my years of eating breakfast in diners, cafes, restaurants, truck stops, cars, ships, planes, taquerias, trains,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 19, 2009
The Chatterbox

May 19, 2009

There have been countless rumors and rumblings over what is happening at ~AQUA~. Here's what we do know: chef de cuisine Ron Boyd is off to lead R&D for Beautifull!, the company focused on healthy meals for delivery or pick-up. Boyd's replacement is Jason…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Lush

May 19, 2009

The Metro Bar on Market has been closed for renovations, and will be reopening as ~BLACKBIRD BAR~. The project from Shawn Vergara and Doug Murphy of Moby's and 440 will be something new for the Castro: a warm and cozy rustic-modern bar, more in the stylistic vein of…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 19, 2009
The Health Nut

May 19, 2009

A couple little bits for you. First, I had to share this wonderful recipe tablehopper reader Leslie wrote in: it's for a ~HEALTHY BREAKFAST OF QUINOA~. (I know, and you thought it was just for dinner.) One thing that was challenging on the cleanse was what to eat…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 19, 2009
The Sugar Mama

May 19, 2009

It's a new month, which means another book giveaway from the award-winning Ten Speed Press. This month I am giving away three copies of local writer Karen Solomon's fab book, JAM IT, PICKLE IT, CURE IT and Other Cooking Projects to three lucky tablehopper readers. All…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Starlet

May 19, 2009

The lovely Julianne Moore dined with two women at Lark Creek Walnut Creek. She had the steelhead trout and the three shared a dessert. Molly Ringwald and her daughter, Mathilda, were at MacArthur Park in Palo Alto last night—her daughter lost her first tooth there. Last Tuesday night, Pink…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
May 19, 2009
What’s Cookin’

May 19, 2009

photo by Stuart Brioza Yup, I finished the three-week cleanse. And not a moment too soon, since I was able to heartily enjoy my first glass of wine at the always-fantastico Meals on Wheels event on Sunday night. It was hard to still be eating as a vegetarian while surrounded…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Edible Pursuit #3
The Socialite

Edible Pursuit #3

Edible San Francisco is excited to announce the third ~EDIBLE PURSUIT~ is back, a food-themed trivia game night at Acme Chophouse. Once again, yours truly is the emcee. A ticketed event, Edible Pursuit will feature challenging questions about San Francisco's local food scene, kitchen know-how, food politics, and…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
tablehopper wine tasting
The Socialite

tablehopper wine tasting

I have been enjoying drinking wine with (and learning from) my friend Alex Fox for too long to keep him to myself; he's the former wine director of Myth and most recently a somm at Gary Danko. So voila, the ~FIRST TABLEHOPPER WINE TASTING~! Well, it's…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Amber India
The Regular

Amber India

tandoori-stuffed aloo Photo from Amber-India.com I don't understand why Indian places always have to be cheap and dingy and have buffets and leave you smelling like a tandoori oven when you depart (kudos to Roti and DOSA for changing that paradigm). Another member in that better-heeled bunch…
Marcia Gagliardi
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