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What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: ram tough.

Hopefully you got enough vitamin D flowing in your system this past sunny weekend so you don’t care about this chilly and gray Mardi Gras. Whatever, we’re not under five feet of snow like other cities, so let the good times roll. Here’s a little roundup of…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 16, 2015

707 Scout

Zin Owners Head South of the Border, Fermentation Heavyweights at Shed

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Former Zin owners Jeff and Susan Mall are heading south of the border to take over food and beverage operations at RANCHO PESCADERO in Baja, Mexico. Que? Yup, it’s true. The Malls have been consultants for the resort…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 13, 2015

February 13, 2015 - This week's tablehopper: hizzy-kaya.

This week's tablehopper: hizzy-kaya. The hi-low katsu with cheese at Rintaro (a kind of deliciously dirty dish elevated with excellent Riverdog chicken). Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hello, my fellow spoiled citizens of the Bay Area. Yeah, that’s a 72-degree forecast we’re looking at for this weekend in…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 12, 2015

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: hizzy-kaya.

Hello, my fellow spoiled citizens of the Bay Area. Yeah, that’s a 72-degree forecast we’re looking at for this weekend in SF. Hell to the yes. Time to start plotting where you want to have brunch outside (because that’s how we do it here in February). This…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 12, 2015

The Regular

Izakaya Rintaro

Fires are always awful, but some are more tragic than others: when Chez Spencer experienced a fire in 2013, that was definitely a big loss for SF—I’m not the only one who adored that lofty industrial-chic space, all the way from when it sprung up as Citizen Cake.…

Marcia Gagliardi • Feb 12, 2015

The Chatterbox

Now Open: Ginto Izakaya Japonaise

There’s a massive new project on Market Street from Japanese company Ramla, called GINTO IZAKAYA JAPONAISE. Eater reports that the restaurant corporation currently has more than 100 eateries around the world. This it their first outpost of the Ginto concept in the United States, though their Oto-Oto and Gyoro-Gyoro…