Polenta will occupy the former Alamo Square Seafood Grill at 803 Fillmore Street after a significant remodel and aims to serve regional Italian cuisine from Friuli at neighborhood scale. Owner Giulio de Monte Gaspardo, a former sommelier at Bottega in Yountville, plans a wine list dominated by Friulian producers. The menu will highlight German and Eastern European influences on Friulian cooking, including goulash and polenta. No firm opening date is set; Gaspardo hopes for early fall. Folia Bar & Kitchen at the new Appelation Healdsburg hotel will name Reed Palmer chef de cuisine, focusing on live-fire cooking, house-made charcuterie, and Sonoma-focused wines, and is expected to open in early September with Andys Beeline Rooftop. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is promoting SF Tomato Week, August 25–31, with dozens of restaurants offering tomato-focused dishes.
It's called Polenta, a significant remodel is underway, and it's set to become a regional Italian restaurant at a neighborhood scale, in the vein of La Ciccia, except focused on the northern Italian region of Friuli. The wines of Friuli are a passion of owner Giulio de Monte Gaspardo, a former sommelier at Bottega in Yountville, and he expects a majority of his wine list to be sourced from there.
We learned this week who the chef de cuisine will be at Folia Bar & Kitchen at the new Appelation Healdsburg hotel, under celebrity chef-owner Charlie Palmer and executive chef David Intonato, and it's Palmer's son, Reed Palmer. The younger Palmer has cut his teeth at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, Amass in Copenhagen, and Ilis in Brooklyn, and dad Charlie calls him "part of a new generation of chefs redefining what it means to cook with purpose."
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