Graff San Francisco sparkled more than usual during a Valentine’s cocktail celebration for the Sundance premiere of the Jennifer Siebel Newsom film The Mask You Live In. The filmmaker and her husband, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, were among the glitterati on hand,

It’s the Year of the Sheep and Hakkasan San Francisco has a Chinese New Year menu that will make you go baa baa. We had a chance to taste it first when it was unveiled on Feb. 9 and suggest you book your reservations now to enjoy this scrumptious, eight-course festive feast that is available through March 1

Gretchen Buck, the head sommelier at Absinthe Bar & Grill, selects four Valentine’s champagnes and wines ideal for an at-home date night on Feb. 14.

Paws down, the hautest San Francisco event to take place over the weekend was Haute Dog | SF 4, a doggie runway fashion show held Feb. 6 at the San Francisco Design Center to benefit Muttville Senior Dog Rescue. The always-dapper Wilkes Bashford emceed for the fourth consecutive year and walked his equally stylish Dachshund Duchie down the catwalk. Jane Wiedlin and Gina Schock, original members of The Go-Go’s, were special guests and walked Flora, a pitbull mix from Muttville and in need of a home.

Because roses only last so long and chocolate goes from the lips to the hips, the Valentine’s Day gift you really want to give, or receive, is jewelry. Buying jewelry for another person can be tricky though. Therefore, we called on California-based jewelry designer Adam Neeley to answer our questions (and probably yours too) on how to buy jewelry in regards to the hautest trends, the length of a relationship and the person’s size (does size matter???) and what to avoid altogether.

Valentine’s Day gifts (a list curated by Sonya Molodetskaya), getaways and boxes of chocolate are among the haute news and notes in our Week in Review. We also talk to Charlot Malin, Manresa’s David Kinch and GourmetFest’s David Fink, tell you about a haute new 49th floor lounge on Rincon Hill and catch you up on a few of our Haute 100 members.

The countdown is on for the second annual Relais & Chateaux GourmetFest Carmel-by-the-Sea, a four-day foodie extravaganza featuring an exclusive roster of Relais & Châteaux chefs and wine estates in a picturesque setting. The 2015 edition takes place March 5-8 and promises to be even hauter than last year’s inaugural event.

Yes, it’s a cliche to say that every cloud has a silver lining but it’s still true in the case of Manresa. David Kinch’s two-Michelin starred restaurant in Los Gatos was devastated by a fire in July and closed for five months. Haute Living was on the scene Feb. 3 to celebrate Manresa’s reopening with for canapés, wine and cocktails. We caught up with Kinch, who had interesting things to say about the effects of the fire on the South Bay’s premier dining spot.

You know Charlot Malin is the new president of the San Francisco Opera Guild. You’ve probably heard that she’s from Oslo, Norway. Chances are you’re also aware that she and her husband Gregory Malin’s company Troon Pacific, a real estate development company known for its efforts in wellness and sustainable design. When Haute Living recently sat down to talk to her for a feature in our upcoming March/April issue, our Green issue, we learned even more about this award-winning interior designer and philanthropist. Here are five haute things about Malin.