Happy Happy Happy
by Kevin Blum, City Dish
1) $5 Wines By the Glass at luella
It’s that time again… luella restaurant on Russian Hill is celebrating its five-year anniversary with $5 wines by the glass.
Guests can enjoy this celebratory pricing Sunday – Thursday in the dining room and at the bar. General manager Leah Lidsky manages luella’s eclectic wine list, featuring a mix of countries and varietals chosen to pair with chef Ben de Vries’ contemporary American menu. The wines will change throughout the month.
WHEN: Sundays – Thursdays (in March). 5:30pm – 10pm.
WHERE: luella
1896 Hyde St. @ Green
2) Yelp Drinks Week (Mar. 1 – 7th)
Don’t miss Yelp Drinks, a WEEK-LONG happy hour. From Monday, March 1st to Sunday, March 7th, 25 of San Francisco’s top bars and restaurants will offer 3 lip-smackingly delicious alcoholic beverages for 50% off, all day.
Participating restaurants and bars include: Rye, Gitane, Dosa on Fillmore, Royal Exchange, The Parlor, Yoshi’s, and 15 Romolo.
WHEN: Monday, March 1st – Sunday, March 7th.
WHERE: Participating Bars
3) $2 Late Night Cocktails at 540 Club
Attention all night owls, insomniacs, and cheapskates!
The Richmond’s 540 Club offers a terrific late night happy hour on Tuesday nights (10pm – 12am). Enjoy $2 cocktails, including Lemon Drops, Manhattens, Martinis, and more. Where else can you get hammered for under 10 bucks? The 540 Club has everything you could ever want in a bar, including: DJs, darts, rotating art shows, a kick-ass juke box, coat hooks under the bar, and a smoking patio for all you sinners out there.
WHEN: Tuesdays. 10pm – 12am.
WHERE: 540 Club
540 Clement St. @ 7th Ave.
4) North Beach Pizza Lovers Tour with GraceAnn Walden
Love pizza? Join food maven GraceAnn Walden for the only tour in San Francisco that will give you a full North Beach experience including Italian history, food knowledge and a spectacular meal at Tony’s Pizza Napoletano.
Tour participants will dine on 3 kinds of pizza, meatballs, salad, and green beans with garlic. The tour takes you behind the scenes of a focaccia bakery, a chocolatier, a butchery, and more. The tour begins across the street from St. Peter & Paul Church. The walking tour will cover 8 blocks total, with several stops.
Tickets are $80. Private tours are also offered on weekdays for 10 participants or more. Make a reservation to gaw@sbcglobal.net.
Send your check and cell phone number to: G.A. WALDEN – PO Box 475877. SF, Ca. 94147.
WHEN: This Saturday, March 6th. 10:30am – 3:30pm.
Private tours are available on weekdays.
WHERE: St. Peter & Paul Church
666 Filbert St. in North Beach
RSVP: gaw@sbcglobal.net
5) Free Art Exhibition, Beer, & Food
OgilvyWest, the world renowned marketing firm, is hosting an eclectic new art exhibition this Thursday at their Sutter Street offices.
“Samplings from Creativity Explored” features provocative artwork from the SF non-profit, which serves as a studio, gallery, and community for artists with developmental disabilities. Curator and CE Studio Manager Paul Moshammer has chosen works that represent a diverse cross-section of CE artists’ subjects, styles, and materials including painting on canvas, mixed-media, collage, acrylic, three-dimensional sculptural work, and even 3D-imagery. All the work serves as a captivating means of challenging & transforming people’s assumptions about disability. There will be complimentary beer and appetizers.
WHEN: Thursday, March 4th. 5pm – 9pm.
WHERE: OgilvyWest SF Office
111 Sutter St. @ Montgomery
6) Celebrity Book Signing/Latin Dinner Party at Destino
Rachel Rays’s BFF and the Food Network’s newest cooking star Daisy Martinez is coming to Destino next Monday to introduce her new cookbook: “Daisy: Morning, Noon, And Night.”
Chef James Schenk will utilize Daisy’s vibrant Pan Latin recipes (Celery Root, Jicama & Red Pear Salad; Risotto with Pigeon Peas; Peruvian Pork Roast with Onion Pepper Stir Fry; Mango-Passion Fruit Panna Cotta) to create an unforgettable evening of food and drink from around the Spanish-speaking world while you get to schmooze with the first Latina to host a national cooking show. The festivities will kick off from 6pm – 6:30pm at Pisco Latin Lounge next door with a no-host cocktail reception with Dailsy + passed apps. Tickets are $150 per couple for a delicious 4-course dinner with wine plus an autographed copy of Daisy’s new cookbook.
* Special $20 Singles Discount For The First 20 Who Sign Up For the City Dish Foodie Table. Be sure to type in promo code “CITYDISH” when purchasing your ticket.
WHEN: Monday, March 8th. 6pm – 10pm.
WHERE: Destino
1815 Market St. @ Octavia
7) Oscar Party at the Top of the Mark
To celebrate the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this Sunday, the Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel is hosting a glamorous Oscar night party.
Guests can enjoy Champagne, shrimp cocktails, caviar, and 360 degree views of San Francisco while watching the Tinseltown telecast on two big screens.
To reserve your seat on the red carpet, please call 415.616.6916.
CLICK HERE for more info.
WHEN: Sunday, March 7th. 5pm – 10pm.
WHERE: Top of the Mark
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
$30 Sushi Prix Fixe at Sushi Ran
When you visit Sushi Ran Monday through Wednesday nights, ask for the Sausalito Red Elephant Menu. The first course includes a choice of miso soup, soup of the day (when available), or seasonal greens with tahini-miso dressing and sesame wafers. The second course includes a choice of miso-glazed black cod obento, Vietnamese shaking beef obento, teriyaki Atlantic salmon obento, or the sushi special (1 maguro, 1 sake, 1 hamachi plus three more chef’s choice selections). For dessert, choose from Fiorello’s gelato or fresh fruit sorbets.
WHEN: Monday – Wednesday. 5pm – 11pm.
WHERE: Sushi Ran
107 Caledonia St. in Sausalito
