The Socialite

Congrats to ~RUBICON~, which is about to celebrate ten straight years of being awarded the highest restaurant wine honor there is: Wine Spectator’s Grand Restaurant Award! A tasting menu is being designed to complement a very special set of wines chosen by Master Sommelier Larry Stone and Wine Director…

Legacy, a new organization, will be hosting ~TASTES OF THE CITY~, a culinary event and auction benefiting George Mark Children’s House, the nation’s first and only freestanding home for seriously ill children and their families. With members ranging between the ages of 25 and 45, Legacy’s goal…

Cortez Restaurant will host a ~MUSHROOM DINNER~ (no, not the kind that will make everything start moving and fizzing and morphing around you, that would be illegal). This dinner is featuring mushrooms from purveyor Todd Spanier from King of Mushrooms who will be in attendance to answer questions about the…

There’s more to food and fashion besides edible panties (yes, really): the Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s annual ~TOAST OF THE TOWN EVENT~ is themed “Where Food Meets Fashion” this year, with an all-star line up of chefs, and the first-ever edible catwalk. The event will showcase cutting-edge edible…

This Thursday is the ~MARCH OF DIMES SIGNATURE CHEFS AUCTION~ event, a culinary evening in support of an invaluable cause: giving every baby a healthy start in life. Bay Area chefs will prepare their signature dishes for a walk-around tasting, and California wineries will provide some pours. Following the tasting,…

Yup, it’s time to do it again, people! Another ~TABLEHOPPER SUPPER~ in full effecty wecty. This time we’ll have room for 30 folks total, all obviously way into food and wine and meeting strangers. We’ll start with passed apps and something to drink from 6:30pm–7:…

Coming up is one of the best chef events of the year: the annual ~CUESA Sunday Supper~ fundraiser. A four-course dinner will be served in the Ferry Building's Grand Hall ($175http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif includes dinner and reception), plus they are offering a reception-only…

Tyler Florence and Joey Altman will be hosting a ~CELEBRITY CHEF COOK-OFF AT JACK FALSTAFF~ to benefit the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit organization working to ensure that all children have access to quality after-school programs. The event will pit four teams against one another in two separate thirty-minute challenges. Two…

Join the Fisheries Conservation Foundation and the American Fisheries Society for the ~SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD BENEFIT DINNER~, an evening of fine wines and an array of sustainable seafood gastronomic creations by some of San Francisco’s talented top chefs. The six-course menu will be prepared by Scott Howard, Ron Siegel of…

Pic taken at Bacco restaurant� How much are you lovin’ all the tomatoes right now? My kitchen table is like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Redux. Coming up is ~MILLENNIUM’S ANNUAL HEIRLOOM TOMATO DINNER~, a five-course dinner featuring tomatoes from Eatwell Farms, all hand-picked by the Millennium staff, with…