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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.

The Starlet

April 14, 2009

Anna Gastayer from past seasons of Saturday Night Live was spotted at Perbacco. And I loved this saucy sighting from a tablehopper reader: “I saw Curtis Stone, aka the Take Home Chef, at South Wine Bar on Friday at about 5:30pm. He's quite fetching in that Aussie…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
April 14, 2009
What’s Cookin’

April 14, 2009

Looking back on my culinary excursions last week, it was the week of Little Bunny Foo Foo: I had rabbit pot pie at Mission Beach Café (and a full-tilt-boogie with dessert—j’adore the lemon velvet cream pie, whoa), and rabbit and liver sausage the following night at Poggio (plus…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Wok on the Wild Side
The Socialite

Wok on the Wild Side

This year is the ~11TH ANNUAL WOK ON THE WILD SIDE BENEFIT~ for CCSF’s Culinary & Hospitality Studies Program. The evening is prepared and presented by the students, chefs, and guests of City College of San Francisco Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies program. Four kitchens, eight chefs, and a…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Dine Out For Life
The Socialite

Dine Out For Life

~DINE OUT FOR LIFE~ and 25% of your food bill (and at some places are including alcohol sales too) will benefit the HIV prevention programs of the STOP AIDS Project, a non-profit organization providing services to those living with HIV/AIDS. Choose a restaurant and dine out with your friends…
Marcia Gagliardi
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No Restaurant Required
The Regular

No Restaurant Required

No Restaurant Required There is an explosion happening in San Francisco of irreverent and inexpensive places for food, whether it's delicious bites in bars (like Broken Record, Taco Shop at Underdogs, 15 Romolo) to curry and crème brûlée from carts. Here's a little recap of five…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
No Restaurant Required
The Regular

No Restaurant Required

No Restaurant Required There is an explosion happening in San Francisco of irreverent and inexpensive places for food, whether it's delicious bites in bars (like Broken Record, Taco Shop at Underdogs, 15 Romolo) to curry and crème brûlée from carts. Here's a little recap of five…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
April 7, 2009
The Chatterbox

April 7, 2009

I was riding my bike down Haight Street this weekend and noticed a few changes in the Lower Haight: ~VISIT THAI~ has now morphed into ~BISTRO SAINT GERMAIN~. The owner is Laurent Legendre, who also has ~LE P'TIT LAURENT~ in Glen Park. He will have the same chef,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Lush

April 7, 2009

Over in the Polk Gulch, the N’Touch Bar is going to be converted into the ~KOZY CAR BAR~. Yup, Kozy, like those vans in the 70s. The new owner is Sam Young, who currently owns the DragonBar (he was the half-owner of the following venues until 2006: The Desert…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

April 7, 2009

It’s not every day you have a Pulitzer prize winner and nun spotting all rolled into one: Sister Helen Prejean (whose book was turned into Dead Man Walking) dined at Lark Creek Walnut Creek after speaking at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church. She ordered the baby field greens…
Marcia Gagliardi
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