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So Many Celebrations in One Bag: Don't Miss Out on the tablehopper Thank You x 15 Gift Bag!

The Chatterbox

So Many Celebrations in One Bag: Don't Miss Out on the tablehopper Thank You x 15 Gift Bag!

The Hopper Holiday Restaurant Gift Bag was such a hit (thanks to you!) that I’m doing it again, although this time we’re celebrating tablehopper’s fifteenth anniversary! Can you believe it? February will be tablehopper’s quinceañera—along with the Lunar New Year (Happy Year of the Ox!…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 29, 2021

This week's tablehopper: it's in the bag.

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: it's in the bag.

Howdy, hopper readers! It’s Friday. We made it. (Some of us, just barely.) I’m so ready for happy hoppy hour. In honor of tablehopper’s fifteenth anniversary next month (!!), I’m truly excited to launch the tablehopper thank you x 15 gift bag today! I hustled to get…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 28, 2021

Exciting Updates at the La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, Where You'll Now Find Jay Foster, Marketplace Manager!

The Chatterbox

Exciting Updates at the La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, Where You'll Now Find Jay Foster, Marketplace Manager!

Some uplifting news over here (my favorite): I know many of you listened to Jay Foster’s episode of On the Fly (our second-most-listened-to episode!), and it was a particular kind of heartbreak to hear about the discrimination he was subjected to in the workplace as a Black man and…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 27, 2021

New Openings: DamnFine Pizza in the Outer Sunset, Jaranita

The Chatterbox

New Openings: DamnFine Pizza in the Outer Sunset, Jaranita

Now open in the Outer Sunset is a wood-fired pizza place, DAMNFINE serving some classics like a Margherita, to a pesto and purple potato pizza (with pancetta and Parmesan, alllll the Ps), to a clam pizza with garlic butter, mozzarella, and herbed ricotta, eight pizzas in all. You can read…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 27, 2021

Tasty Menus, from Lunar New Year to Family Meal from Jason Fox

The Chatterbox

Tasty Menus, from Lunar New Year to Family Meal from Jason Fox

In my previous column, I mentioned how supervisors Aaron Peskin and Sandra Lee Fewer—along with Chinatown neighborhood groups and SF New Deal—were trying to help keep FAR EAST CAFE supported through this challenging time after they announced they were closing (during their 100th birthday year, too tragic). One…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 27, 2021

Oakland Dispatch: Miss Ollie's to Sanctuary, Huangcheng Noodle House Reopens, Ghost Town Brewing, Popoca

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Oakland Dispatch: Miss Ollie's to Sanctuary, Huangcheng Noodle House Reopens, Ghost Town Brewing, Popoca

I got a chance to catch up with chef-owner Sarah Kirnon of MISS OLLIE’S in Old Oakland, and she tells me things are in process for the next iteration, Sanctuary, with co-founder Miles Dotson. A recent mission statement states: “Sanctuary was birthed from chef Sarah Kirnon’s passion to…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 27, 2021

This week's tablehopper: blame it on the rain.

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: blame it on the rain.

Hello, dear readers. I hope you’re keeping toasty during this cold and wet and windy AF weather. (My apartment is fuh-reeezing right now.) Yup, my column is a day late, partially due to an inability to focus and write—honestly, I have been so lethargic the past couple days.…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 26, 2021

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