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The New Yawker

Where the World's 50 Best Chefs Eat When They're in New York

As you know, last week I had quite the time attending the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards and after-party. I interviewed a number of top chefs about where they were eating (or like to eat) when they’re in New York; you can read my post on Time…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 21, 2016

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Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 21, 2016

The Chatterbox

New Service Includes Brunch at Volta, Weekday Lunch at Myriad

The next time you’d like to do some brunch followed by downtown shopping, take note that ~VOLTA~ is now serving brunch Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30am-2:30pm. There are poached eggs with smoked salmon, sautéed spinach, pain de mie, and dill hollandaise, or a tartine with toasted…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 21, 2016

The Lush

Wine Down Opens, and a Taste of Mendocino in SF This Saturday

Remember when I told you about WINE DOWN, the laid-back wine bar coming to SoMa? Well, Sarah Garand and Jaime Hiraishi got the place open and are ready to greet you after work with an affordable but quality glass of local wine (think $10 and thereabouts), craft beer, and…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 21, 2016

June 21, 2016 - This week's tablehopper: late lunch club.

This week's tablehopper: late lunch club. Kingfish and osetra caviar tartare with smoked crème fraîche emulsion and roe at Le Bernardin. Photo: © tablehopper.com. I swear, I keep having to pinch myself, and it’s not because I added a new waistline roll from all the pizza, bagels,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 20, 2016

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: late lunch club.

I swear, I keep having to pinch myself, and it’s not because I added a new waistline roll from all the pizza, bagels, and cacio e pepe I’m eating out here… I just got home from a spectacular four-and-a-half-hour lunch (whoops) at Le Bernardin…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 20, 2016

The Chatterbox

Corey Lee's In Situ Opens at the New SFMOMA

As if the reopening of SFMOMA wasn’t exciting enough, and now chef Corey Lee’s (Benu, Monsieur Benjamin) ambitious concept IN SITU is opening today. To recap, each dish on the menu is from a different chef, painstakingly re-created (as much as ingredients allow) by Lee and his…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 14, 2016

The Lush

Liholiho Yacht Club Opens Louie's Gen-Gen Room in the Basement

And now the folks at ~LIHOLIHO YACHT CLUB~ are giving us yet another reason to come by their ever-hot and packed place: they have opened a bar in the basement called LOUIE’S GEN-GEN ROOM. But it won’t get too crazy down there: the space is reservation…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 14, 2016

The Chatterbox

Now Open: Tawla, Souvla on Divis, El Buen Comer, Chicks and Love Pizza

Another exciting addition to our Mediterranean scene in SF is TAWLA, newly open in the Mission from first-time restaurateur Azhar Hashem, working closely with chef Joseph Magidow (formerly of Delfina). Hashem is Jordanian, and the menu meshes Eastern Med dishes (think Greece, Turkey, Iran, and the Levant—Syria, Lebanon,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 14, 2016

The Lush

Pacific Cocktail Haven (P.C.H.) Opens in Former Cantina

The changes to the former Cantina on Sutter have been unveiled with the opening of P.C.H. (Pacific Cocktail Haven) from bar director-partner Kevin Diedrich and managing partners Andy Chun and Jan Wiginton (Sidecar Hospitality: Press Club, Schroeder’s). Opening on June 16th, the new name and concept…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jun 14, 2016

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