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Sustainable Seafood Benefit Dinner
The Socialite

Sustainable Seafood Benefit Dinner

Join the Fisheries Conservation Foundation and the American Fisheries Society for the ~SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD BENEFIT DINNER~, an evening of fine wines and an array of sustainable seafood gastronomic creations by some of San Francisco’s talented top chefs. The six-course menu will be prepared by Scott Howard, Ron Siegel of…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Celebrity Chef Cook-Off at Jack Falstaff
The Socialite

Celebrity Chef Cook-Off at Jack Falstaff

Tyler Florence and Joey Altman will be hosting a ~CELEBRITY CHEF COOK-OFF AT JACK FALSTAFF~ to benefit the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit organization working to ensure that all children have access to quality after-school programs. The event will pit four teams against one another in two separate thirty-minute challenges. Two…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Chatterbox

August 21, 2007

I am starting this week’s missive on a serious note: I know the world is horrified with what poor Peru is suffering through right now. James Schenk, the chef and owner of ~DESTINO~ is contributing a portion of his restaurant sales to assist earthquake victims in Peru. Schenk mentioned…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Starlet

August 21, 2007

JT Leroy/Laura Albert was spotted at Foreign Cinema, getting interviewed by a New York Times journalist about the current lawsuit she is involved in surrounding the contract for the film Sarah.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
What’s Cookin’

August 21, 2007

Okay, confession time. Guess who is leaving town yet again? Don’t hate me. Yes, yours truly is trucking off to Burning Man this weekend (like most San Franciscans age 28-40 over the coming week), and will be WAY off the grid until September 4. I might as well be…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Hip Tastes: All-White Tasting
The Socialite

Hip Tastes: All-White Tasting

Courtney Cochran of Hip Tastes has finished her soon-to-be-released book, Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine, (it comes out in October), and now her local tasting parties are back. Here’s more on one this Friday’s event, the ~ALL-WHITE TASTING~: With Labor Day just around the corner there&…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Annual Heirloom Tomato dinner at Millennium
The Socialite

Annual Heirloom Tomato dinner at Millennium

Pic taken at Bacco restaurant� How much are you lovin’ all the tomatoes right now? My kitchen table is like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Redux. Coming up is ~MILLENNIUM’S ANNUAL HEIRLOOM TOMATO DINNER~, a five-course dinner featuring tomatoes from Eatwell Farms, all hand-picked by the Millennium staff, with…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Laïola
The Regular

Laïola

After going on a total Spanish tapas tear in New York, you can trust I was fired up about the arrival of LAÏOLA on our local dining scene, the latest project from Joe Hargrave and Andrew McCormack of Frisson. Even more exciting (and I am not alone in this) was…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Chatterbox

August 13, 2007

More news on restaurant openings in Mint Plaza! It’s looking like Chez Papa will have some new groovy neighbors: ~SUSHI GROOVE~. Well, Sushi Groove Midtown, to be exact. This will be the fourth Sushi Groove location—there is the original location on Hyde Street, plus Sushi Groove South in…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Starlet

August 14, 2007

Haylie Duff, Rachel Hunter, and poker star Jamie Gold all dined last week at Mamacita.   Sammy Hagar was having a good time at the special Marc Vetri dinner at Zuppa on Sunday night. Hagar had plenty of opportunity to hang out with chef/owner Joseph Manzare, who is now on…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
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