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| | | | | | Okay, these ~TABLEHOPPER SUPPERS~ are just too much fun, and there are so many places to host them, so I’m going on a monthly schedule for now and am hosting another one this March! This supper is special for a variety of reasons: first, it’s at the ever-charming Piccino in Dogpatch, which has a... Read More | | | | | | This looks like a can’t-miss event to me: Piccino Café is pairing up with Biondivino wine shop for a couple ~UPCOMING WINE DINNERS~. The five-course prix-fixe menu will feature Piccino’s trademark simple, Italian-inspired food, paired with special artisan-made, highly individual wines from Bi... Read More | | | | | | Outside Italy, not everyone knows that the Italian language the way it is spoken today is a modification of the traditional dialect spoke in Tuscany during the first centuries of the previous millennium- and we have Dante to thank for it! That’s why Tuscany doesn’t really have a dialect, only a ver... Read More | | | | | | Rumblings over at Mint Plaza: looks like ~PETER GREERTY’S GASTRO-STEAKHOUSE PROJECT~ will not be happening in the 418 Jessie space. This was going to be the hefty project, with 120 seats total. No confirmed word on whether Il Buco is moving out here into the 54 Mint space either. This Friday August... Read More | | | | | | Here's on update on ~CLOCK BAR~ by Michael Mina, opening next Tuesday July 15th in the Westin St. Francis hotel in Union Square. The team includes GM Matthew Meidinger, bartender Marco Dionysos (formerly of Tres Agaves), and seasoned bar team Ray Cortez Brown, Estanislado Orona, and Maren West. CLOC... Read More | | | | | | Last night was the first night of food service for ~TAVERNA AVENTINE~, the new bar and eatery from Vintage 415 and Gian-Paolo Veronese in the FiDi/Jackson Square neighborhood. To recap, it’s an Old World-inspired space, with two bars serving some historic SF cocktails and wine and beer, or you can d... Read More | | | | | | Drama over at ~CAFE MAJESTIC~: GM Ryan Maxey is uh, suddenly no longer working there, and now executive chef Ian Begg and the bar manager have given their notice. Begg’s last day will be August 6th (hello restaurant folks, here are some quality folks to snap up!). The restaurant is currently looking... Read More | | | | | | Plenty of local folks were upset when ~COCO500’s~ Jen Biesty got cut from Top Chef a few weeks back (I hoped to see her in the final three). More departures are in her future: she is also leaving Loretta Keller’s Coco500 at the end of May, just shy of three years of being there. (Coco500 is celebrat... Read More | | | | | | I've been tracking this one down for a while, and while details are still forthcoming, I know some culinary globetrotters will be happy to hear chef ~NORIYUKI SUGIE~, most recently of New York's Asiate at the Mandarin Oriental, is involved in a project in the Upper Haight. I know, the Haight, how un... Read More | | | | | | True to my name, I’ve had quite the week of tastes, many of them new, so I thought I’d do a fun mini-recap. Taste-hopping, if you will. First, have you tried the roasted corn ice cream with skillet bread and honey and bacon brittle at Nopa? Mother of God. And with some bourbon to sip on the side? Uh... Read More | | | |
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