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(Sponsored): Tickle Your Taste Buds at Eat Drink SF! August 1st-3rd at Fort Mason

Eat Drink SF, San Francisco’s annual food, wine, and spirits festival (formerly known as SF Chefs), heads to Fort Mason Center, August 1st-3rd, 2014. The epic foodie festival weekend features tastes and flavors from the Bay Area’s finest chefs, mixologists, brewers, and wine experts including bites from A16,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 08, 2014

The Chatterbox

510 News: Shakewell Opens, Fentons, Half Orange, Calavera, Off the Grid

After hitting a few delays, the team behind SHAKEWELL in Oakland are happy to announce they are officially opening on Thursday July 10th. In our original piece, we noted that owners Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent are opening their eclectic Cal-Spanish concept on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. You can look…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 08, 2014

The Lush

Bar Bites: Blackbird Turns Five, ABV Soft Opens Tonight, New Trick Dog Menu, More

Congrats to BLACKBIRD in the Castro, which is turning five on Sunday July 20th, and you know there will be a party. At 8pm that evening, come by to check out their new barrel-aged cocktail menu (15 drinks in all!) that have been aging since Blackbird opened! The barrel-aged program…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 08, 2014

July 8, 2014 - This week's tablehopper: eat, drink, repeat.

This week's tablehopper: eat, drink, repeat. Can’t stop thinking about this summery dish at Bar Tartine: squash and tomato salad with quinoa greens and bottarga. Photo: © tablehopper.com. How fabulous was that three-day weekend? I know I’m not the only one who needed it. For those…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 07, 2014

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: eat, drink, repeat.

How fabulous was that three-day weekend? I know I’m not the only one who needed it. For those of you who stayed in the city, I hope you enjoyed our annual colored fog. I took it easy over the weekend and enjoyed some home-cooked meals, although last week I…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 07, 2014

The Socialite

Très Delicious: Bastille Day Is Coming Monday July 14th

Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate all things French on Monday July 14th for Bastille Day. Ready for some berets, stinky cheese, and lovely wine. Bon! Raise a glass to liberté, egalité, fraternité at ~CAFÉ DES AMIS~ on Bastille Day. They’ll be offering an all-day happy hour from…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 07, 2014

The Chatterbox

Newly Open: Pabu and The Ramen Bar from Michael Mina and Ken Tominaga

Two big openings are happening simultaneously at 101 California Street: PABU and THE RAMEN BAR from Ken Tominaga (of Hana in Rohnert Park) and Michael Mina. Let’s start with The Ramen Bar first, the more casual of the two, which just opened yesterday (Monday June 30th). Tominaga’s ramen…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 01, 2014

The Chatterbox

Chubby Noodle Marina Now Open and Slinging Tasty Vittles

After blowing things up for their grand opening this past weekend, CHUBBY NOODLE MARINA is now open for regular business. Chef-owner Pete Mrabe keeps fine-tuning and tweaking the 12-item menu, which has a few dishes in each section (noodles, seafood, meat, and dim sum). The dim sum picks include chicken…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 01, 2014

The Chatterbox

Loretta Keller Sells Coco500, Marlowe Moving In (and Getting a Nice Upgrade)

Here’s some big news on the San Francisco restaurant scene: chef Loretta Keller has sold her beloved ~COCO500~ to partners Anna Weinberg, James Nicholas, and Jennifer Puccio of Marlowe, The Cavalier, and Park Tavern. The corner space, which housed Keller’s Bizou before Coco500, will become the new location…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 01, 2014

The Chatterbox

The Reign of Hideki at Oyaji Comes to an End; New Owner Taking Over the Business

Some big changes at Outer Richmond’s izakaya mainstay, ~OYAJI~, namely that chef-owner and top dog boozer Hideki Makiyama has sold the restaurant after something like 11 years of holding it down and is said to be returning to Japan. He is reportedly going to try to open something in…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 01, 2014

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