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Subscribe to tablehopper and discover why it’s a must-read, insider newsletter for anyone who lives to eat in San Francisco, for 19 years and counting. Every Tuesday, columnist and curator Marcia Gagliardi serves up the latest SF Bay Area restaurant and bar news, events, culture tips, travel guides, and more.

Easy Creole Pops Up This Week
The Chatterbox

Easy Creole Pops Up This Week

Grant Gooding and Jess McCarter could never find home-style Creole food in the Bay Area quite like it is in the Big Easy, that is, damn good and damn cheap. So they made their own: EASY CREOLE is starting a pop-up restaurant on Wednesday May 25th at The Residence (starts…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Taste 12 New Zealand Wines on May 31st
The Lush

Taste 12 New Zealand Wines on May 31st

The Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco is hosting 12 New Zealand winemakers on Tuesday May 31st for a wine tasting at MO Bar and a four-course winemaker dinner at ~SILKS~. The wine tasting is nicely affordable at $30, and includes pairings with small bites from MO Bar from 5:30pm-7:30pm.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

Chelsea Without a Handler

Ozumo Oakland had a surprise guest last Sunday: in the middle of a huge dinner rush before the Chelsea Handler show on Sunday the 15th, the headliner herself came in for a quick pre-show bite. There were reportedly some “shrieks of delight from the many lovely women dining and pounding…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Oakland and Berkeley Openings
The Chatterbox

Oakland and Berkeley Openings

RUDY’S CAN’T FAIL CAFE of Emeryville (yes, the place where Green Day’s Mike Dirnt is a co-owner) is opening a second location in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood in the beginning of June, just next door to the Fox Theater. A menu of classic American diner fare with…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Saturday June 11th is the Marin County Wine Celebration
The Lush

Saturday June 11th is the Marin County Wine Celebration

Beautiful scenery, beautiful wines, you can’t ask for much more. The Marin County Winegrowers Association is hosting the seventh annual MARIN COUNTY WINE CELEBRATION on Saturday June 11th at the Historic Escalle Winery in Larkspur to benefit the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. You’re invited to attend from 3pm-7pm…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

Greek to Me

A tablehopper reader spotted singer Constantine Maroulis in Bernal Heights on Sunday afternoon, “sitting on the bench outside Avedano’s, chatting with a friend, enjoying a panino and the sunshine.” He was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol, and performed in Rock of Ages at the…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

Constantine Maroulis

Greek to Me May 24, 2011 A tablehopper reader spotted singer Constantine Maroulis in Bernal Heights on Sunday afternoon, “sitting on the bench outside Avedano’s, chatting with a friend, enjoying a panino and the sunshine.” He was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol, and performed…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Healthy Bites
The Health Nut

Healthy Bites

Oh yeah, am in the home stretch. I will be gradually reintroducing dairy and eggs (how I have missed you) into my diet at the end of this week, but otherwise, I think eating vegetarian at home as much as possible, if not vegan, will be a great way to…
Marcia Gagliardi
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(Sponsored): Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
The Sponsor

(Sponsored): Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Since 2001, Gastronomica has been feeding readers’ sensual and intellectual appetites with food-focused writing and art. Subscribe today and find out why Alice Waters, New York Magazine, The Paupered Chef, Utne Reader, Saveur, and others are raving about Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. In the summer issue, on…
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