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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.

The Starlet

Bromance: Clive Owen and Lars Ulrich on the Town

Hottie actor Clive Owen—presumably in town for the filming of Hemingway & Gellhorn with Nicole Kidman—was spotted with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich in Harry Denton’s Starlight Room (not together) last Wednesday, but then two nights later, they were spotted together having drinks in the lounge at Twenty…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Some Cool Upcoming Cooking Classes
The Chatterbox

Some Cool Upcoming Cooking Classes

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge, the COOKING SCHOOL AT CAVALLO POINT is hosting some unique classes, including In My Kitchen: Ayurvedic Journey to the Soul with Nalini Mehta on Saturday February 19th (1pm-5pm), $125 plus tax; and on Wednesday February 23rd, it’s SF Food Cart Wednesday with Azalina’…
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Farmers Market Happy Hour Coming Up on February 23rd
The Lush

Farmers Market Happy Hour Coming Up on February 23rd

The Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) and the Northern California Chapter of the United States Bartenders Guild (USBG) are kicking off the 2011 FARMERS MARKET HAPPY HOUR SERIES at the Ferry Building on Wednesday February 23rd from 5:30pm-7:30pm. I’m a fan of these events,…
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It's Time to Get to Homeroom (in Oakland)
The Chatterbox

It's Time to Get to Homeroom (in Oakland)

And now, an East Bay report from tablehopper intern Daniel Azarkman: It sounds like a foodservice fairy tale. HOMEROOM started as a conversation at a café between two people who didn’t know each other all that well. Though Erin Wade had worked as a cook in New York and…
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Wreck Room Opens Wednesday
The Lush

Wreck Room Opens Wednesday

R Bar owners Tod Alsman and Chris Fogarty have finished the long haul of transforming the Nob Hill Tavern Sports Bar into the newly opened WRECK ROOM. Eater reports the bar will be open for its regular business hours of 4pm-2am as of tomorrow (Wednesday). Also mentioned: “the bar now…
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YBCA Returns with Bay Area Now 6, Part I: Ideas
The Socialite

YBCA Returns with Bay Area Now 6, Part I: Ideas

Hey, you tired of just expanding your stomach and want to expand your mind too? As part of its Bay Area Now 6 event, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is hosting a series of six roundtable conversations highlighting six areas of influence: food, futurism, community activism, radical identities,…
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