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The Chatterbox

East Bay Openings and News

As previously announced in tablehopper, a new project called NEXT DOOR RESTAURANT was opening in the former Addie’s Pizza Pie space in the Lorin neighborhood in Berkeley. The project (from San Francisco Housing Authority Director Henry August Alvarez III and his wife, Dionne Roberts, working with chef Sharon Lorraine…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 14, 2013

May 14, 2013 - This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air.

This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air. This is what heaven looks like: a party platter o’ nigiri at ICHI Sushi. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Helllllo there. I think I have managed to shake last week’s Jazz Fest remnants from my head—sleep is a miraculous thing.…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: lurve is in the air.

Helllllo there. I think I have managed to shake last week’s Jazz Fest remnants from my head—sleep is a miraculous thing. Although I am hardly detoxing: last week I attended a Winebow Italian wine tasting, had a night of Austrian wines from Willi Klinger at et. al., tasted…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

The Socialite

Check Out the Mega Food, Wine, and Beer Lineup at Outside Lands

Leave it to San Francisco to be as excited for the lineup of food (and wine and beer) vendors as for the music lineup at OUTSIDE LANDS this year (August 9th-11th). (Some are perhaps even more fired up for the vittles.) The majority of the audience will assuredly have…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

The Socialite

Save the Date: Summertini CHEFS Benefit June 7th

Get ready to enjoy some fabulous food for a fabulous cause at the ninth annual SUMMERTINI bash, which is shaping up to be the best one yet. The party is happening Friday June 7th at the Bently Reserve. This year, the restaurant lineup is just amazing! It includes A16, Nopa,…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 13, 2013

The Chatterbox

Coming in September from Liza Shaw: Merigan Sub Shop

Liza Shaw—the talented powerhouse of a chef who has worked at A16, Acquerello, and most recently consulting in Wine Country on the pizzas at Redd Wood and Pizzando—is finally ready to formally announce her next venture: MERIGAN SUB SHOP. I have been hearing about (and anxiously awaiting) her…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013

The Chatterbox

Big News from Brenda's: They're Opening a New Café (Libby Jane Café) on Polk St.

Brenda Buenviaje writes in with some great news: she and wife/business partner Libby Truesdell are opening a new café on Polk Street, just two doors down from the current ~BRENDA’S FRENCH SOUL FOOD~. Her blog mentions that it will be called LIBBY JANE CAFÉ after Libby (awwww). Anyone…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013

707 Scout

Dierk's Midtown, Chalkboard Open While Empire and NVB Put on Finishing Touches

By 707 correspondent Heather Irwin. Sign up for the BiteClub Newsletter. There’s good news and there’s, well, pretty good news about the opening of DIERK’S MIDTOWN CAFE (the offshoot of the brunch-tacular Dierk’s Parkside): The veggie stack is back. If you time it right you…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013 - This week's tablehopper: and all that jazz.

This week's tablehopper: and all that jazz. The doors into the kitchen at Commander’s Palace. Probably the only “no” you’ll find in New Orleans. Photo: © tablehopper.com. It’s rather unbelievable that I’m home in one piece. Well, sort of. The jury is still out…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 09, 2013

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: and all that jazz.

It’s rather unbelievable that I’m home in one piece. Well, sort of. The jury is still out on my liver. Anyway, my past week in New Orleans for Jazz Fest was one for the books. That bucket list item was way checked. The Crescent City is such a…

Marcia Gagliardi • May 09, 2013

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