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Get Classy! Upcoming Events at The Boothby Center
The Lush

Get Classy! Upcoming Events at The Boothby Center

This month, The Barbary Coast Conservancy of the American Cocktail is hosting three upcoming classes well worth considering (for those 21 and up, ahem). All classes take place at the Conservancy’s home, ~THE BOOTHBY CENTER FOR THE BEVERAGE ARTS~ located at 1161 Mission Street between 7th and 8th Streets.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
The Starlet

Hot Roddin'

Meanwhile, Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod from the NY Yankees) was in for dinner at Twenty Five Lusk with five guests last night (Monday May 30th). Alex ate the NY strip steak (seems appropriate) with steamed vegetables, and they all shared salmon pastrami, tuna sashimi, and beef tartare. As for beverages, they…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
(Sponsored): Fresh. Hot. Meatpaper.
The Sponsor

(Sponsored): Fresh. Hot. Meatpaper.

The latest issue of your quarterly journal of meat culture is available now. As usual, Meatpaper 15 presents a wide-ranging feast of topics. You are cordially invited to join us as we learn about meat glue, animals that eat people, Cree hunting traditions, beef in India, the challenges of lamb…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
Oliveto
The Regular

Oliveto

Predecessors. Big shoes to fill. Legacies. Nope, it’s never light stuff. So when chef Paul Canales left his post as executive chef of OLIVETO after six years (he was at the restaurant for 15 years altogether), and it was announced Jonah Rhodehamel was taking the helm, I was like,…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi
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