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The Chatterbox

Slow Club Closing After 24 Years; The Morris from Paul Einbund Taking Its Place

There was a collective sigh among SF old-timers this week over the news about the upcoming closure of the ~SLOW CLUB~, after a 24-year run in the Mission/Potrero Flats. Erin Rooney, owner of the Slow Club since 1998 (Steve Decosse opened it in 1991), sent out an email saying…

Marcia Gagliardi • Aug 21, 2015

707 Scout

Fermentation Festival, New Healdsburg Restaurants, Pub Redeemed, Miminashi

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Farm to Fermentation Festival 2015: Bigger and badder (meaning better) than ever, this celebration of all that ferments happens Saturday August 22nd at Santa Rosa’s Finley Community Center. Taste and learn about homemade miso, turmeric fermentation, beet kvass,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Aug 21, 2015

August 21, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: from taco to Tahoe.

This week's tablehopper: from taco to Tahoe. 7 of the 16 tacos at EDSF’s Taco Knockdown last night. And one very cute taco shirt (and man wearing it). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hola, amigos. Last night’s Taco Knockdown—the opening event for this weekend’s Eat Drink…

Marcia Gagliardi • Aug 20, 2015

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: from taco to Tahoe.

Hola, amigos. Last night’s Taco Knockdown—the opening event for this weekend’s Eat Drink SF—definitely fulfilled my taco quotient for the week. As a judge, I had to taste 16 tacos, but we’re talking about tacos made by badass San Francisco chefs, so all of us…

Marcia Gagliardi • Aug 20, 2015

The Regular

Middle'terranea

I had just finished my first float in a sensory deprivation tank a couple of blocks away*, and was in a blissed-out, easy-breezy, super-relaxed state of mind (no Purple Kush needed). Walking into MIDDLE’TERRANEA, at the new Mina Test Kitchen, it was initially a bit of sensory overload. The…

Marcia Gagliardi • Aug 20, 2015

The Chatterbox

Fiorella, a New Italian Restaurant and Enoteca Coming to the Outer Richmond

Folks in the Outer Richmond are going to be getting a neighborhood Italian restaurant and enoteca this winter called FIORELLA. The project is going into the former Shimo and is from Boris Nemchenok (of Lower Haight’s Uva Enoteca), who is partnering with chef-partner Brandon Gillis (formerly Franny’s in…