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Closures Brief, Lengthy, and Open-Ended
707 Scout

Closures Brief, Lengthy, and Open-Ended

By 707 correspondent, Deirdre Bourdet. Traditionally, January marks the absolute nadir for restaurant business in Napa and Sonoma, and this one is no exception. Lots and lots of places are battening down the hatches for the winter—some for renovations, some for vacation, and others for more mysterious reasons. In…
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The New Year Brings a Slew of Closures
The Chatterbox

The New Year Brings a Slew of Closures

It’s a new year, which always brings a bunch of news about post-holiday closures. Inside Scoop broke the news that Loretta Keller’s ~THE MOSS ROOM~ abruptly closed January 1st, and Charles Phan is taking it over. Phan, who runs the Academy Café at the California Academy of Sciences,…
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The Starlet

Going Far Afield for James Franco

This is a little far afield for my usual coverage, but again, for James Franco, exceptions must be made. He had dinner at Calafia Café in Palo Alto with his mother and brother. (Yes, just like his collection of stories, Palo Alto.)…
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Changes at Criolla Kitchen in the Castro
The Chatterbox

Changes at Criolla Kitchen in the Castro

Grub Street noted some ownership and menu changes at ~CRIOLLA KITCHEN~ in the Castro, and one of the new partners in the venture got in touch with me to share an update. One of the original managing partners is moving on, and Hans Purohit (Ristobar) and Adam Wilson (Beretta, Zeki’…
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The Starlet

Adrian Grenier and Entourage at AQ

Just before Christmas, Adrian Grenier came in to AQ for dinner and hung out in the downstairs whiskey lounge with his group—my source says he was “with his ‘model girlfriend’ and a group of friends including one of the Twitter founders.”…
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New Year, New Openings
The Chatterbox

New Year, New Openings

Just before the holiday break I received an email from Manhal Jweinat, the owner of MANZONI in Glen Park, telling me he was due to open at the end of the week. Poor guy, I tortured him for months with check-ins and questions about his opening (since 1998, to be…
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The Starlet

Ben the Bachelor Spotted at Cotogna

A tablehopper reader spotted Ben Flajnik at Cotogna, the Sonoma winemaker who is starring in the latest season of The Bachelor (it just started last night). Yup, the same guy who was turned down by Ashley Hebert on The Bachelorette. My spotter says, “It looked like a late lunch meeting,…
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