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This week's tablehopper: where to begin?                     I didn’t know it at the time, but my last meal out was an extra-special one at the counter of The Bump Bar by California Caviar. I so look forward to being able to see a server’s smiling face like…

This week's tablehopper: quesa-beeria.                     The amazing Szechuan poached fish (flounder) in flaming chili oil at Chili House. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hi. Sorry this is a couple days late, but to be honest, someone has been a little distracted lately. I also had to unexpectedly spend my Tuesday at…

This week's tablehopper: love and quiches.                     The decadent quiche Lorraine at the just-opened Maison Danel. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy! It’s another sunny day in SF…here’s wishing you a happy Mardi Gras! [throwing beads at you] I’m so looking forward to celebrating tablehopper’s 14th…

This week's tablehopper: here's to 14 years, pho-ck yes!                     I can’t celebrate a tablehopper birthday without Champagne and caviar. As my dear friend Roberta Klugman says, “A day without Champagne is just stupid!” Photo: © tablehopper.com. Happy summer! Kidding. But seriously, this weather right now.…

This week's tablehopper: say cheeeeeeese.                     A wedge of Gorgonzola the size of a cake. (At the annual Casa de Case Cena al Magazzino.) Photo: © tablehopper.com. Howdy, gang. You ready for me to make you hongry? I’m already thinking ahead to my dinner tonight at 1760, with…

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…

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 we begin…

This week's tablehopper: crab and Cognac.                     Get excited for SEVEN preparations of crab at the tablehopper crab and Cognac holiday supper at M.Y. China with Rémy Martin! Photo: © tablehopper.com. High, gang! How is it December 17th? I swear, this holiday is just flying by (but then…

This week's tablehopper: wavy gravy.                     If you’re going to call your party High Ho Silver, you better have a 1977, 24-foot, silver Lincoln Continental stretch limo to put in the middle of it. Photo: Cynthia Glassell Photography. Hey, everyone! Here I am! Sorry for the radio silence…

This week's tablehopper: grinding hard.                     The Hash ‘Em Up dish at Hilda and Jesse: a spunky spin on the Mickey D’s hash brown, with pork sausage, fermented green garlic, squash, okra, and pepper relish, with a hit of dill and horseradish. Photo: © tablehopper.com. Hello, my friends.…