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The Chatterbox

Updates (Helmand Palace Has Reopened), New Menus (Breakfast Tacos, 1760)

After being closed for a seismic upgrade and renovations—while Van Ness Avenue continues to be torn up and a complete disaster—~HELMAND PALACE~ has reopened. The dining room got an update, as well as the exterior. Show them some support and head in for their famed kaddo! The restaurant…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 14, 2020

The Chatterbox

Unfortunate Closures Include Mijita, Brown Sugar Kitchen, Cafe Flore, Fringale, More

It’s a new year, with a fresh round of closures that totally sucks. Over at the Ferry Building, Traci Des Jardins has shuttered MIJITA after serving her amazing chilaquiles there for 15 years. The Chronicle reports she was at the end of her lease, and may repeat the concept…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 14, 2020

The Lush

Nightingale Opens in the Financial District, Winter Cocktails of the Farmers Market

I’ve been admiring the disco fern bar aesthetic of NIGHTINGALE on Instagram for a few weeks, and this new bar from Future Bars (Bourbon & Branch, Pagan Idol, Local Edition, Rickhouse, The Devil’s Acre) is now open in the former Gitane in the Financial District. The two-level…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 14, 2020

January 14, 2020 - This week's tablehopper: I smell a rat.

This week's tablehopper: I smell a rat. The bubbly beginning to my weekend caviar and Champagne and bagel brunch of my dreams. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy gang. Thanks to all of you who wrote in with your comments and kudos and gripes and additions to my annual the…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 13, 2020

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: I smell a rat.

Howdy gang. Thanks to all of you who wrote in with your comments and kudos and gripes and additions to my annual the bore list of ten things I don’t want to see in the new year, you always entertain me! Now it’s time for some catch-up…

Marcia Gagliardi • Jan 13, 2020

The Bore

We Have Already Seen These Things Aplenty, No More in 2020!

It continues to be a tough time in the restaurant industry in San Francisco, with so many sad closures. But it also means that only the strong or beloved (or well-funded) may survive. Since restaurants need diners to keep coming back, let’s review some things they can do…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 30, 2019

December 31, 2019 - This week's tablehopper: 2020 vision.

This week's tablehopper: 2020 vision. M.Y. China’s off-the-menu ice cream and sugar egg puff/sugar cloud with a Rémy Martin XO Old Fashioned is how we ended the tablehopper Crab and Cognac Feast. Boom! Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy, gang! We made it. Barely. Tomorrow…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 30, 2019

What’s Cookin’

This week's tablehopper: 2020 vision.

Howdy, gang! We made it. Barely. Tomorrow we begin a new decade, which feels like an extra-fresh start. I say make a resolution you want to keep, one that makes you happy. One year, my resolution was to cook for friends once a month. It was a good one—…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 30, 2019

The Chatterbox

It's All About Crab and Cognac for the tablehopper Holiday Supper on December 28th!

SORRY EVERYONE, THIS EVENT SOLD OUT IN 90 MINUTES! THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST! A couple weeks ago, I posted some pics from an ~M.Y. CHINA~ media dinner I attended, celebrating the restaurant’s seventh birthday with an over-the-top menu of seven different preparations of crab. It was…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 17, 2019

The Chatterbox

Chef Timothy Hollingsworth Opening a Restaurant in SF

Big news that came in (just before I was going to send this out!): chef Timothy Hollingsworth (known for his 13 years at The French Laundry, and now his restaurant Otium in LA) is returning to the Bay Area with his restaurant, ALL THESE YEARS, opening in San Francisco in…

Marcia Gagliardi • Dec 17, 2019

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