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The Sugar Mama

(Sponsored): Win Tickets and Experience the Best at SF Chefs!

Experience the best at SF Chefs, San Francisco’s food, wine, and spirits festival presented by Visa Signature on Union Square through August 4th. With tastings, competitions, demos, dinners, parties, and more, there’s something for every palate. Tickets are on sale now! In celebration of the festival’s fifth…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 30, 2013

The Chatterbox

510 News: Homestead and Rico's Diner Open This Week, Trabocco on the Docket for Alameda

As previously mentioned on tablehopper, HOMESTEAD was going to be opening soon in Oakland, and the time is now: the restaurant is scheduled to open for dinner this Thursday August 1st. UPDATE: They moved the opening to August 7th. You can read the original details here, and the menu is…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 30, 2013

July 30, 2013 - This week's tablehopper: food frenzy.

This week's tablehopper: food frenzy. Fancy feast: reserve caviar, corn pudding, grilled tomato gelée (in the lounge at Saison). Photo: © tablehopper.com. You ready to strap your feed bag on for the month of August? It’s shaping up to be a doozy, starting with the kick-off…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 29, 2013

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: food frenzy.

You ready to strap your feed bag on for the month of August? It’s shaping up to be a doozy, starting with the kick-off for SF Chefs this weekend (check out today’s sugar mama for a ticket giveaway). Next weekend is Outside Lands (or as my sister…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 29, 2013

(Sponsored): Don't Miss the Third Annual West of West Wine Festival in Sebastopol

Don’t miss the third annual West of West Wine Festival showcase of acclaimed West Sonoma County and Sonoma Coast wines at this weekend-long event at The Barlow, a brand-new food and wine mecca in Sebastopol. Forty top producers and growers will host the trade and public to…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 26, 2013

707 Scout

Food at the Sonoma County Fair, Best Hotels in the World

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. Lobster corn dogs. Fried avocados. The Krispy Kreme hamburger. The annual Sonoma County Fair has become a pilgrimage for culinary adventurers who can’t wait to challenge their palates (and gullets) with the good, the not so good, and…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 26, 2013

July 26, 2013 - This week's tablehopper: healing waters.

This week's tablehopper: healing waters. The restored 1954 Gaggia lever machine at Iron & Steam Espresso Bar. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Greetings from Lake Tahoe, which is offering plenty to watch: from a crazy downpour and thunderstorms when I arrived yesterday to the always-charming chipmunk TV. Oh yes,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 25, 2013

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: healing waters.

Greetings from Lake Tahoe, which is offering plenty to watch: from a crazy downpour and thunderstorms when I arrived yesterday to the always-charming chipmunk TV. Oh yes, and entertainment from my parents’ cats (Merna and Sophie), who also get to enjoy our summer cabin—although they are not digging…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 25, 2013

The Regular

Hard Water

The first time I walked into HARD WATER, I was like, wait, that’s it? It’s not a large space by any means, but it packs a big wallop, in the form of its absolutely insane whiskey collection. There’s a back wall, lit from behind, that illuminates bottle…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 25, 2013

The Chatterbox

First Look at Café Claude Marina (Opening in Mid-September)

Last week I got a look at the glammy CAFÉ CLAUDE MARINA that we mentioned was coming awhile back—while the design is very close, we’ll have to wait until mid-September to enjoy a glass of wine and frites there. The building dates back to the early 1900s,…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jul 23, 2013

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