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This week's tablehopper: where to begin?

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: where to begin?

Hello my friends. It’s so hard to be writing to you in such desperate, heart-breaking times. It’s mind-blowingly awful out there (so many boarded-up businesses, it’s really hard to see); there is so much loss and fear and sadness and struggle across the board, but I keep…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 19, 2020

Reem's Mission Has Soft-Opened--It's Time for Mmmmmmana'eesh!

The Chatterbox

Reem's Mission Has Soft-Opened--It's Time for Mmmmmmana'eesh!

Wow, that was fast! Congrats to Reem Assil (Reem’s California) for getting REEM’S MISSION open in the former (and missed) Mission Pie location relatively quickly. Considering how slowly things move in restaurant opening and permit land, it’s downright impressive! Her new Arab bakery and café will be…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

Openings This Week: Hahdough in Nopa, Taco Boys in the Castro

The Chatterbox

Openings This Week: Hahdough in Nopa, Taco Boys in the Castro

Back in June, I wrote about HAHDOUGH’s upcoming brick-and-mortar bakery, and now Nopa can claim a German bakery to the neighborhood’s roster of cool businesses. To recap, it’s from baker Ha Do, known for her stand at the Inner Sunset and San Mateo farmers’ markets. She has…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

Restaurant Updates, Tweaks, New Hours, Service, and More

The Chatterbox

Restaurant Updates, Tweaks, New Hours, Service, and More

There are some restaurant changes and tweaks happening, starting with PRAIRIE in the Mission—chef Anthony Strong is pivoting to highlight even more of a live-fire format on his menu (check it out) and there’s a new dining experience in their new private dining room: The Campfire Room. It’…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

The Starlet

Lady Gaga

Stupid Fun March 12, 2020 If you’re going to have a star sighting to lighten up the current mood, it may as well be the fabulous Lady Gaga, who mugged for the camera with chef Dominique Crenn (and gave her a cute smooch) in the kitchen of BAR CRENN…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

The Starlet

Stupid Fun

If you’re going to have a star sighting to lighten up the current mood, it may as well be the fabulous Lady Gaga, who mugged for the camera with chef Dominique Crenn (and gave her a cute smooch) in the kitchen of BAR CRENN over the weekend. Gaga reportedly…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

The Starlet

Lady Gaga

Stupid Fun March 12, 2020 If you’re going to have a star sighting to lighten up the current mood, it may as well be the fabulous Lady Gaga, who mugged for the camera with chef Dominique Crenn (and gave her a cute smooch) in the kitchen of BAR CRENN…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

Closures All Over the City, from James Beard Winners to Beloved Pubs

The Chatterbox

Closures All Over the City, from James Beard Winners to Beloved Pubs

There are some unfortunate closures to announce: ~BAR AGRICOLE~ is closing on April 15th, after ten years in their award-winning and beautifully designed SoMa space. What they didn’t mention in their newsletter is they are moving to a “luxury residential complex at 1550 Mission St., in late 2020” (via…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

Oakland Bar Updates: Sobre Mesa Opens, While NIMBY Neighbors Close Here's How Bar

The Lush

Oakland Bar Updates: Sobre Mesa Opens, While NIMBY Neighbors Close Here's How Bar

¡Hola, hermosa! Chef Nelson German of alaMar Kitchen & Bar has just opened SOBRE MESA in downtown Oakland, an Afro-Latino cocktail lounge that is a spacious, tropical oasis inspired by the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other Latin countries. Chef German says he wants guests to feel like they’…

Marcia Gagliardi

Marcia Gagliardi • Mar 12, 2020

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