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(Sponsored): Trade and Media, Save the Date: Washington State Wine Is Coming to Oakland

Attention wine trade, restaurant industry, and media! Join us on Thursday April 6th when Washington State Wine comes to Oakland for a Trade and Media Seminar at Sunset Magazine’s Headquarters in Jack London Square from 11am-12:30pm, with lunch provided. This is a global comparative tasting of riesling, syrah,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 07, 2017

The Chatterbox

510 Updates: Mockingbird's New Nest, Drip Line, Old Kan, Lunch at The Wolf

Some exclusive news for you: MOCKINGBIRD is reopening at the end of March in their new (and expanded) location in downtown Oakland (they originally opened on San Pablo Avenue in 2013, and closed in 2016). Melissa Axelrod and William Johnson are confirmed for an opening by late March. The bistro…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 07, 2017

The Lush

Cultivar San Francisco Wine Bar Opening in the Marina, Cider Summit, Brandy Par-tay, New Spirits Shop

The Marina will be getting a wine bar this spring featuring small-production and coveted Napa Valley wines—with some European selections as well—called CULTIVAR. Siblings Jody Harris and Gingy Harris Gable are SF natives. Their family started Caspar Estate in Napa, and Jody created Cultivar Wine. There will be…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 07, 2017

March 7, 2017 - This week's tablehopper: the fempire strikes back.

This week's tablehopper: the fempire strikes back. And so it begins… The initial table setting at Single Thread. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Did you have a nice weekend? Mine started with a preview of the new vendors and offerings at Off the Grid, check out my recap in the…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 06, 2017

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: the fempire strikes back.

Did you have a nice weekend? Mine started with a preview of the new vendors and offerings at Off the Grid, check out my recap in the chatterbox. I was invited to attend CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) Feast on Saturday, honoring The People’s Kitchen Collective, Roy Choi,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 06, 2017

Biz

Motze

Some restaurants just aren’t like the others. They may have a challenging name to pronounce (Coi comes to mind), or serve hard-to-classify food (e.g., The Progress), or just have such a quirky format that you surrender and roll with it (like the early days of Mission Chinese Food)…

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 06, 2017

The Chatterbox

China Live Opens with a Firecracker Bang on Broadway

Last week was a preopening party for ~CHINA LIVE~, giving guests a look at the first floor of the mega culinary and cocktail multifloored project opening on Broadway this Wednesday March 1st. The first floor includes the Market Restaurant and Bar Central, Oolong Café, and a carefully curated retail area,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 28, 2017

The Chatterbox

Preview Peek of Hitachino Beer & Wagyu, Opening Very, Very Soon

Back in the summer of 2015, tablehopper was first to report on the opening of a Hitachino-affiliated project in San Francisco, and I’m so happy to see HITACHINO BEER & WAGYU is almost ready to open its doors, the first Hitachino-operated location in North America. The Kiuchi family has…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 28, 2017

The Chatterbox

Sharon Ardiana (Ragazza, Gialina) Opening Ardiana in La Nebbia Space

Congrats to Sharon Ardiana (Gialina, Ragazza) and the residents of Noe Valley, who are lucky to have ARDIANA opening in the former La Nebbia space in late spring/early summer. Working with her on the new project is Ardiana’s business partner and Ragazza GM, Greg Hinds (Hog Island Oyster…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 28, 2017

The Chatterbox

Rice Paper Scissors Ladies Land a Brick-and-Mortar Location

After popping up for six years (I remember trying their banh mi one night on Divisadero, right on the street) and looking for a space for the past few years, Katie Kwan and Valerie Luu of Vietnamese pop-up Rice Paper Scissors have found a restaurant space in the Mission on…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 28, 2017

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