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May 2, 2014 - This week's tablehopper: let's eat.
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May 2, 2014 - This week's tablehopper: let's eat.

This week's tablehopper: let's eat.                     A straight-up extravaganza of salumi and charcuterie at Trou Normand. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Alas, our warm nights this week have wound down, just when I was enjoying holding meetings in the Panhandle, and digging all my sundresses and sandals out…
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This week's tablehopper: let's eat.
What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: let's eat.

Alas, our warm nights this week have wound down, just when I was enjoying holding meetings in the Panhandle, and digging all my sundresses and sandals out of the back of my closet. Riding a bike in the warm, windless evening air is enough to convert anyone into a cyclist…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Matt Straus: On Being a Sommelier
The Wino

Matt Straus: On Being a Sommelier

Matt Straus is a chef, sommelier, writer, and the owner of Heirloom Cafe, which opened in 2010. On Being a Sommelier I did not enjoy watching the film Somm, which was released last year and is about four young men and their breathless pursuit of something called a “master sommelier”…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Kin Khao
The Regular

Kin Khao

In the latest chapter of “build it and they will come” is KIN KHAO, the very personal Thai restaurant from Pim Techamuanvivit, known in international culinary circles for her blog, Chez Pim, her award-winning jams, and as the globe-trotting girlfriend of Manresa’s David Kinch. It was a…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Big 4 Chef Named: Kevin Scott
The Chatterbox

Big 4 Chef Named: Kevin Scott

After hearing some rumors about who the chef was going to be for the ~BIG 4~, replacing longtime chef Gloria Ciccarone-Nehls, the official hire has just been named: Kevin Scott, formerly of Paragon, Bar Jules, and Hog Island Oyster Bar. He will be working with the Puccini Group operations…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Dirty Habit Opens Thursday May 1st
The Chatterbox

Dirty Habit Opens Thursday May 1st

After completing its run of preview parties for local tech companies (including Uber and Twitter), the (unfortunately named) DIRTY HABIT is opening to the public this Thursday May 1st. The former Fifth Floor in the Hotel Palomar has been converted into this bar-centric project, led by chef David Bazirgan…
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