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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.

Tamalada Navideña
The Socialite

Tamalada Navideña

This is seriously cool: Encantada Gallery of Fine Arts is hosting a ~TAMALADA NAVIDEÑA: THE ART OF THE TAMALE~. Here's more on this hands-on Mexican holiday cooking class: In Latino communities, the Christmas Tamalada is a time for sharing chismes, family stories, recipes and preparations for the Holidays.…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Azie
The Regular

Azie

*THIS RESTAURANT HAS CLOSED* There are some restaurants you never manage to try, and AZIE has been on my list for a long time. I was actually supposed to dine there with a couple friends on the night of September 11th, but for obvious reasons that reservation got cancelled. (Wow,…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Chatterbox

November 21, 2006

Over at the Westfield Centre, the Straits Group will be opening ~STRAITS UNDER THE DOME~ under the former Emporium dome. This open-air bar and lounge/restaurant will be a new hotspot for folks to meet up, maybe after a movie, where they can get a bite to eat or enjoy…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Cantina
The Lush

Cantina

Okay, not only is Duggan McDonnell one of the most badass chef mixologists in town, but he's also opening his bar concept, ~CANTINA~, into one of my favorite spaces in town, the former Johnny Wok's on Polk Street, right next to O'Reilly's…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Starlet

November 21, 2006

Marisa Churchill (just booted from last week's episode of Top Chef) was spotted at CIRCA having drinks at the bar. Drowning her sorrows? Perhaps some sales of her 2007 calendar will perk her up (yes, the former executive pastry chef at Ame has her own calendar, with pics…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Perbacco
The Regular

Perbacco

Okay, check it out: a new Italian restaurant has opened and whaddya know, it's not some 49-seat number that's tucked into [insert your neighborhood here] with wood chairs, a traditional menu of minestrone, a radicchio salad with gorgonzola cheese, and a few classic pasta (don'…
Marcia Gagliardi
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The Chatterbox

November 14, 2006

First it was Enrico's, and now another San Francisco landmark has closed its doors: ~THE MANDARIN RESTAURANT~ at Ghirardelli Square, founded by Cecilia Chang in 1968, served its last meal on Sunday night. The restaurant is being converted into the Fairmont Heritage Place at Ghirardelli Square, a private…
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