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Chef Ravi Kapur Leaves Prospect
The Chatterbox

Chef Ravi Kapur Leaves Prospect

Wow, this was some news I did not expect to come home to: after 10 years with the Boulevard (and Prospect) team, Inside Scoop reports chef Ravi Kapur has decided to leave Prospect. The reason: he and his wife have a new five-month-old son, and he wants to…
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Lower Haight News: RNM to Become Maven
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Lower Haight News: RNM to Become Maven

A tipster in the Lower Haight alerted me that a former Beretta employee snagged the long-vacant RNM space, and Haighteration confirms the gossip: Jay Bordeleau (Beretta, Nectar, Bacar, Mecca) and David Kurtz (Michael Mina, Coi, Saison, Gary Danko) will be opening ~MAVEN~ before the end of the year. Maven’…
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Chef Change-Ups at Zero Zero and Delfina
The Chatterbox

Chef Change-Ups at Zero Zero and Delfina

Over at ~ZERO ZERO~, chef de cuisine Chris Whaley has departed, with Colin Dewey taking his place. Colin is returning from a stint in New York, working for Mario Batali and Lidia Bastianich—he previously worked with chef Bruce Hill as a sous chef and chef de cuisine at Bix,…
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The Starlet

Hillary Clinton Making the Rounds

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in town, and was spotted at Boulevard (along with George Shultz and Leon Panetta), and a reader emailed me hot from the dining room at Zuni CafĂ© to say she was “dining at Zuni Cafe right now!!!” Grub Street has some color on Hillary’…
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