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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 Chatterbox

April 17, 2007

So, the waiting game is (almost) over. ~FIFTH FLOOR~ (it seems) has honed in on their new executive chef: but I am not allowed to say who it is just yet because the deal isn’t final. So let’s just run this as a blind item. All I can…
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443
The Lush

443

The former Velvet Lounge reopened this past weekend (April 14) as ~443~. George Somers, who owns Bert & Ernie’s in Redding, partnered up with a friend from college, plus a helicopter pilot, a fireman, and a pal who owns an apartment complex. Sounds like the beginning to a good…
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The Starlet

April 17, 2007

Now, I know this wasn’t at a restaurant, but whatever: Kathleen Turner was spotted at the prepared foods section at Whole Foods on California Street! She had a real dinner with a couple friends on Sunday at Venticello after a grueling opening week of Who’s Afraid of Virginia…
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What’s Cookin’

April 17, 2007

I have to say, I am quite proud of myself for attending the Whiskies of the World event this weekend without being hung over the next day! Am I becoming more responsible? Or is my tolerance just incredible? Anyway, good thing I was feeling swell after brunch at XYZ on…
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A Taste of Tamales by the Bay
The Socialite

A Taste of Tamales by the Bay

San Francisco's first annual tamale tasting, ~A TASTE OF TAMALES BY THE BAY~ will take place to benefit Benchmark Institute, a nonprofit organization that teaches advocates in nonprofits how to use the law to help low-income communities. Guests will sample tamales from some of the finest tamale makers…
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Don Davis on Wine: The New Book Club
The Wino

Don Davis on Wine: The New Book Club

Don Davis of Uncorked Events has always had an eye for a good party. Whether having half his high school over for a night of cheap beer while the parents were out of town, renting out a mansion in Chicago during college, or gathering 1,500 people for a Moroccan-themed…
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Foreign Cinema
The Regular

Foreign Cinema

Eggs for breakfast, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: fried and deglazed in balsamic ($10), poached with grilled duck breast and shiitakes ($12), whipped in a Champagne omelette with crème fraîche and Fontina ($12)? Sigh. Swoon. Bwok. Brunch at FOREIGN CINEMA~ is a gorgeous thing, especially…
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The Chatterbox

April 10, 2007

A tablehopper reader was asking me about ~LOTTA'S BAKERY~ on Polk Street, and we gotta love the Culinary Muse for posting the details not two days later and setting me up with the contact, meow. G. Earl Darny is opening this full-service bakery on April 17 that is…
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The Starlet

April 10, 2007

Dude, Dave Chappelle was all over town. He dined at the Straits Restaurant in the Westfield Centre with his wife and other family members (believed to be his two sons and brother). Since he is a pescatarian, they checked out the Vegetable Samosas, Roti Prata, Seafood Green Curry, and Wok-fired…
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