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The Lush

Alliteration Alert: Perfect Portuguese Pairings in The Presidio

You know that Portuguese wines are undiscovered, value-rich, and delicious, right? If not, check out tablehopper’s piece on Lisbon from earlier this year, and be sure to check out the Perfect Portuguese Pairings event in the The Presidio on Friday October 16th. Teams of restaurant and retail professionals…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 22, 2015

(Sponsored): A Video of You Preparing Your Favorite Italian Dish Could Win You a European Cruise!

Scoma’s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and in honor of the milestone, we are holding a national video recipe contest where the winner receives an amazing European cruise for two on Celebrity Cruises. All the rules can be found here, but here’s the general 411: entrants…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 22, 2015

The Chatterbox

Farm Burger Opens North Bay Location

FARM BURGER, the small, Southern-based chain that opened its first West Coast location last year, has opened another Bay Area location. This time, it’s in San Anselmo, and they’re offering the same responsibly sourced items at reasonable prices (burgers start at $7.75) that can be found…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 22, 2015

September 22, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: surrealistic pillow.

This week's tablehopper: surrealistic pillow. My kind of pillow: a massive ricotta raviolo with Mission figs and rosemary brown butter at Gardenias. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Whooooosh, today’s column took me and associate editor extraordinaire Dana Eastland for quite the whirl today. Fortunately, we love espresso and coffee,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 21, 2015

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: surrealistic pillow.

Whooooosh, today’s column took me and associate editor extraordinaire Dana Eastland for quite the whirl today. Fortunately, we love espresso and coffee, so things got done over here. (Thank you, Dana!) Another whirlwind was the SF Cheese Fest on Saturday, an event put on by the California Artisan Cheese…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 21, 2015

The Socialite

Litquake's Eat, Drink, and Be Literary Is Not to Be Missed

On Sunday October 11th, San Francisco’s rad literary festival Litquake is devoting an entire day to the interception of food and literature: Eat, Drink, and Be Literary. Obviously, we’re totally excited (which is why we are a media sponsor), and you should be too. The day runs from…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 21, 2015

The Regular

Cala

This place has not been formally reviewed by the tablehopper, but it has been mentioned in related articles... Related Articles * Mexico City's Gabriela Cámara Opens Cala in Hayes Valley Stars Sighted * Jake Gyllenhaal * Gwyneth Paltrow 149 Fell St. San Francisco (at Franklin St. ) 415-660-7701 calarestaurant.com…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 21, 2015

707 Scout

How to Feed 1,000 with One Stove? Ask Andy Wild #valleyfire

When he casually strolled over to the Calistoga Fairgrounds last Saturday night, chef Andrew Wild wasn’t planning to become the emergency food coordinator for nearly 1,000 Valley Fire refugees. But by 9:30pm, the local caterer and owner of Wild About Food and Drink had been tapped to…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 18, 2015

September 18, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: beat the heat.

This week's tablehopper: beat the heat. Get it while you can: melon and burrata salad with Japanese cucumber (and poppy seeds) at Central Kitchen. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Your sunny weekend is here, right on time. Start chilling that bottle of rosé now. Maybe you have some beach time…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 17, 2015

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: beat the heat.

Your sunny weekend is here, right on time. Start chilling that bottle of rosé now. Maybe you have some beach time planned (really, you should!), or you’re scheming on where to find an outdoor table for dinner (psssst, the new Gardenias has a pretty back patio!). And if you’…

Marcia Gagliardi • Sep 17, 2015

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