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My name is Marcia (rhymes with Garcia) Gagliardi,
and I’m a freelance food writer in San Francisco. I’m
known by many as the “concierge” and “the enthusiastic
reviewer” because I simply adore the experience of dining
and going out, and for the past twelve years have been adventuring
throughout the City far and wide like a culinary swashbuckler.
I write a weekly column, Foodie
411 for the SFCVB on their “Taste” site;
a monthly gossip column, “The
Tablehopper” for
The
Northside; and features for Travel
+ Leisure,
Fodor’s,
San
Francisco magazine, Travel
Weekly, Where
Magazine, DiningOut
Magazine and Edible
San Francisco. I had a good time contributing to the
BlackBook List: San Francisco 2006 guidebook and writing up
some Food and Drink nominations and stories for the San
Francisco Bay Guardian. I was the Regional Managing Editor
for Northern California for Gayot.com (2006–2008),
but continue to write the weekly news and events for Gayot. I
also wrote Where Magazine’s “Hot
Tips-Dining” column
each month of 2004, plus restaurant and nightlife reviews for
Citysearch.com.
Since I’m always out and about, I get countless
calls and emails from my friends and colleagues, asking, “Hey,
what new place should I take my hairstylist to on Saturday?”
(That depends; has your stylist ever made you cry?) and
“Where can I get a good cocktail in Polk Gulch after work?”
(Get thee to Vertigo.) and the one I hear the most after
I tell someone I’m a food writer, “What’s your
favorite place?” (Right now? The food at Laiola is
mighty fine.). Since the questions keep coming, my answer
is my weekly newsletter, “the
tablehopper” and my complimentary concierge service, “tip
please.”
If you want to read a few of my reviews and features,
here are some links:
Travel + Leisure
“New
Takes on Favorite Cocktails,” March
2008
view jpeg of actual article
Fodor's
Nick’s Cove & Cottages—lodging
review
“In
San Francisco, Munch on Mexican,”
New
Hotels and Restaurants, Nov. 2007
San Francisco Magazine
“Black Magic,” The Talk, July 2008
“Come
Together (over meat),” Night Watch, June 2008
“From
Projects to Prosciutto,” Street
Detail: North Mission, May 2008
“Barstool
Dining,” Night Watch, April, 2008
“Dishes
on the Downlow,” The Talk, February 2008
“Eat and Greet,” Night
Watch, February 2007
“Wine Minus the Snob Factor,” Night
Watch, October 2007
“For Urban Pioneers,” Street
Detail: Dogpatch, August 2007
“Tap Into Quality Wine,” The
Talk, August 2007
“Heavy Pedal,” Night
Watch, July 2007
“Hot Sauce Heaven,” The
Talk, May 2007
"Adult
Entertainment," Night Watch, January 2007 (104 KB
pdf)
"Learn
to Shake It Like a Pro," January 2007 (248 KB pdf)
Contributors'
page
San Francisco Convention and Visitors
Bureau
Foodie 411 (weekly blog on Taste SF)
Travel Weekly
Vegas Dining (page 50), February 11, 2008
Vegas Dining (page 46), January 14, 2008
Vegas Dining (page 90), December 10, 2007
Gayot
Weekly
News
Events
The Northside
My
monthly gossip column, “The Tablehopper”
San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Comfort,
Food, and Joy," Holiday Guardian Guide, December 6, 2006
"Foreign
Cures: The City's Best International Hangover Helpers," June
14, 2006
DiningOut Magazine:
“The
Man, The Myth, The Legend: The World According to Tom Duffy,”
Fall/Winter, 2006 (1 MB pdf)
“Beyond the Bento
Box,” Premier Issue/Cover Story, 2005 (1.7 MB pdf)
Edible San Francisco:
“The
Abalone Rangers,” April/May
2008
“The Mermaids
of the Wharf,” Spring, 2006 (112 KB pdf)
“How Pie will Change the World,”
Winter, 2006
(2 MB pdf)
CHEFS Catalog
Monthly
In-Season copy
Citysearch:
Restaurants:
COCO500
Ristorante
Ideale
Where Magazine:
“San
Francisco - The New Guard: San Francisco’s
Fresh Crop of Talented Chefs Under 35,” 2007
“Aw Shucks!
17 Things You Need to Know About Bay Area Oysters,” September,
2005 (650 KB pdf)
“Martinis, Meat
and Mile-High Views,” April, 2005 (1.1 MB pdf)
“Hot Tips: Dining,”
July, 2004 (488 KB pdf)
Above photo by Andrea
Scher.
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