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Customer Expectations, Then and Now
Tra Vigne. Photo: Flickr/asmythie In 1987, a successful restaurant (or at least my successful restaurant) had a simple checklist: Beautiful courtyard (check) Well-executed pasta dish (check) Great...
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Juggling Charity Work and My Day Job
Photo: David Paul Morris/The Chronicle The Spotted Frog Foundation calls and asks if you’ll help with their benefit. You say yes, because you care about the spotted frog, so you pack up your tools, and...
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Here comes Michael Chiarello's Bottega cookbook
This would be the book cover. The Bottega cookbook is finally here, and it’s ready to be the newest addition to the Bay Area restaurant cookbook collection. It’s also the latest offering by Michael...
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Bottega expands: kitchen, private dining, menus and staff
Chiarello is smiling bigger, too Poof! In one fell swoop, Bottega has gotten bigger, from its building, to its menu, to its staff. Chef-owner Michael Chiarello just unveiled a separate, 750 square foot...
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Regarding the rumor that a severed horse head showed up at Bottega: It was a...
Bottega at night. Photo: The Chronicle There’s a wonderful rumor floating around Wine Country that, in an event mimicking that famous scene from The Godfather, a severed horse head was left on the back...
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No, Michael Chiarello is not opening a molecular gastronomy restaurant
The bar at Bottega. Photo: The Chronicle Last week, reports surfaced that Bottega‘s Michael Chiarello was opening a 40-seat “molecular gastronomy-ish concept” in Napa. This is not the case, according...
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