NOTICE: As of 11/7/11, this Meetup group (formerly known as 'Creative Cooks') is under New Management. Greetings Bay Area Creative Cooking Enthusiasts! Do you love to cook gourmet dishes, or just wish you knew how to cook? Maybe you have (or, maybe you haven't before) traveled to places like Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Iran, France, Russia, Columbia, Jamaica, or Alabama, but wish you could taste some of these and other authentic foods right in your own back yar …

June 19 2012 Hello everyone, Happy Summer 2012. I warmly welcome the new members to San Francisco Gourmet Club! As some of you have known, I have been away for a while being at work and abroad. I am glad you kept things in motion while I was gone. You had the greatest ideas so please take a brief moment to share your experiences here. By doing that, you help strengthen our track record while inspiring other members to try something new. Entering our fourth year anniversary, I am pleased to info …

Food Adventurers (for ages 35+) - esp. San Francisco, Peninsula, and East Bay We bring passionate foodies together - people who love to discover new restaurants, revisit favorites, attend food events and classes, always on the look out for new food adventures -whether it's going to a restaurant, buying new foods, cooking different recipes, or just talking about food.

A fun, casual atmosphere where you can meet some new friends, and learn a few new recipes. I hold cooking class/dinner parties once or twice a month on Wednesday or Thursday evenings in the Mission district in San Francisco. I demonstrate and prepare a delicious meal, and afterwards you get to eat it! Lots of tips, techniques and secrets will be shared throughout. Classes are limited to 6 people. Fee is $40 - $50 per person depending on the menu, and includes a light appetizer, glass of wine, an …

The Iron Cupcake SF Challenge is a local Bay Area meetup group where any local bakers, friends, and food enthusiasts can join for a monthly cupcake face off. Each month a new ingredient will be presented, and all participants will bake their interpretation of the ingredient in cupcake fashion. All bakers will meetup on the last Monday of each month where the live challenge will begin. Friends, family, and other contestants will take part in the taste testing as well as voting for the winner. By …

Our mission is to provide fun and memorable culinary experiences by creating deliciously fun cooking classes. We will create a theme menu and you will help prepare the meals. This will be a great opportunity to meet new people and expand your repertoire. We will meet at a home in San Francisco, have a drink and hors d'œuvre before diving in to cooking and preparing the meal. Some of the more time consuming dishes will be prepared 40-60% ahead of time. Ingredients and equipments are provided and …

This group was created to assist bay area locals in learning more from each other. We facilitate small in person classes everyday for groups of 10-20 on all sorts of awesome subjects like  film, photography, graphic design,  cooking, business and technology subjects like programming. We will be holding classes, as well as professional networking mixers in the south bay, and soma Citizen Space locations. What is Citizen Space? We take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creati …

A friendly and inviting group of neighborhood locals looking to expand their culinary skills, learn about unique cultural dishes, enjoy good food and wine, and get to know more people living both in SOMA and throughout the city. The SF Social-Cooking series is a casual and cozy workshop that will feature a guest chef from local restaurants spanning a wide array of ethnic cuisines, unique wines or exotic desserts, all in support of local businesses. The environment is casual and will follow a sim …

Meet like-minded organic gardeners, food growers, and urban farmers who are using their backyards, gardens, patios, and community spaces to grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs that they can cultivate and eat themselves. We’ll share specific ways to help you get your garden planned, started, and yielding healthy fruitful crops. Plus, you’ll have a chance to meet others and share food, recipes, and tips on organic gardening. Whether you must grow your own food for health reasons, you simply desi …

We are the Organizers of theInternational Cooking Dinner Parties meetup. Since we test out a lot of recipes, we thought it would be a great idea to create a Potluck Meetup where we share and explore new recipes.  A potluck is a kind of meal where each guest brings a prepared dish to be shared amoung the group. It's such a fun way to have a get together without the host going into the trouble of having to make a seven course meal! The most unique aspect of a potluck party is that there is an elem …

Many groups are already devoted to general dining. This is not one of them. The purpose of this group is to explore the very best food experiences to be had in the Bay Area. Events may include the yearly truffle dinner at Oliveto, sampling the divine pesto at Farina, lining up in the cold for pizza at Una Pizza Napoletana, or going on a field trip to taste fresh oysters at Tomales Bay. If we totally run out of ideas, we might visit The French Laundry. But not before then. Like our sister meetu …

Let's meet over tea or a hot chocolate and discuss our favorite French dessert recipes. You'll polish (or brush up on) your French language skills at the same time! A bientot :-)

If you are a current Bay Area food blogger or want to be one, let's meet to discuss all aspects of the business from soup to nuts. If you are a cook, writer, photographer, programmer, designer, or recipe writer or tester -- you are an essential ingredient for a perfect food blog and you are welcome in the Bay Area Food Bloggers group. Come join us!

Who We Are: From food novices to epicurean gourmands, San Francisco Foodies always have a great time enjoying delicious food. Join us to share a meal with Real Foodies! What We Do: We bring together Real Foodies around delicious food. Our events include restaurant excursions, food pop-ups, cooking classes, potlucks, picnics, food truck runs, food crawls, food festivals as well as food-related book launch parties, film screenings, benefit galas and more! Our group checks out restaurants through …

There are many of us out there who are looking to do fun activities and make new friends. You could be just moving into the Bay Area or your lifestyle has just become too routine and you are looking to spice it up. Sometimes we also want to engage in various activities that we don't find company for and just need a bunch of people with similar interests. So here is Kitty Party for all you ladies out there who are seeking more friends and want to engage in various activities during your spare tim …

This group was started to combine two passions. The love of cooking at home and meeting new people. In hopes of bringing the two together, these Meet n Eat get togethers are held in an intimate San Francisco apartment. If you are a food enthusiast with an additional taste for meeting new people and want to embrace the joy that comes from doing both.

From the professional to the home cook, this group caters to those who love to make and share authentic, home cooked meals. We gather regularly to cook for each other, share recipes and tips, and explore ideas on how to share our food with the world! This group is for those in restaurants, catering companies, food trucks, supper clubs, private chefs, farmer's markets, grey markets, and passionate home cooks who enjoy cooking and eating authentic, delicious meals. Let's make and break bread toget …

Are you a food blogger and live in the Bay Area? Then let's meet up and network! From visiting fun restaurants, happy hours, and/or festivals together to swapping recipes at a coffee shop or giving photography lessons, it will be fun to get all of the food bloggers in the Bay Area together every once in a while. If you are a non-food blogger that works too! Or if you want to start a blog, we're here to help! Come one, come all!

California Foie Gras Connoisseurs is a group that coordinates trips to Nevada to purchase foie gras. Since foie gras can no longer be legally produced or sold in California after July 1, 2012, the best way for foie gras connoisseurs to continue to enjoy the divine, silky liver, is to come to Nevada, where is it still legal to purchase foie gras. Online retailer, Mirepoix USA, currently has a location in Reno Nevada where foie gras products can be purchased. Anyone in California who wants continu …

Our group based in Whole Foods Market Potrero Hill will provide an inviting environment where members are empowered to make educated and positive lifestyle choices that promote their long-term health and well-being through coaching, delicious food and a supportive community.

Like the idea of eating local fruits and veggies, but getting bored with what comes from your current cooking-know-how? Or perhaps you'd just like some motivation and support in making this happen! Join us. Play with new ways to prepare locally grown produce. Enjoy the company of others while making some food to help your week of food prep flow more smoothly. This group facilitates the coming together of people, sometimes with a theme or focus, with a rotating variety of guests, all with the pur …

A social community centered around cooking and conversations, where friends and soon-to-be friends cook and talk together while enjoying tasty dishes. How it works. Bring the ingredients necessary for everyone to try a little bit of your dish, grill, extra knives & cutting boards (if you have them) and a bottle of wine per person. When you arrive 1) Check in 3) Pour yourself some wine 4) Start making your dish 5) Drink some more wine 6) Help your new friends 7) Bang on a pot when your dish is fi …

This is a group for seeing and being part of the city! Meeting young women and friends with simiar interests. The events will be anything and everything from rock climbing, running, cooking, dining, girls night, museums, and beyond. There are so many fun and exciting neighborhoods around to be expored with fun people. Looking forward to meeting you!

Calling all Food Lovers who want to eat amazing food, drink good wine AND look and feel good about their bodies. (Basically you want the best of both worlds.) I started this group because it can be done. We Meet up and check out the local SF Restaurants especially in the Pac Heights Area. We enjoy ourselves with incredible food & wine and great conversation. I also get specialized menus made specifically for our group from time to time that is healthy but still tastes great. We then meet to do f …

This is a group for anyone interested in home cooked delicious brunch food and good conversations.

Nature designed our bodies to climb mountains, outrun predators, nourish itself from the Earth and defend itself from virus. So why do so many of us spend our lives sitting in traffic or at a desk? Walk in shoes that hurt our feet? Eat foods manufactured with toxins? Pop pills when our body is sick? We are starting this meet up to reconnect with a lifestyle of wellness, rooted in knowledge and wisdom of ancient health and healing traditions. We want to get people together to participate in activ …

The Marina Young Women's Cooking Club is a hybrid of a book club, a dinner party, and girl's night out! We are a group of young ladies in the San Francisco area who like to cook, want to experiment with new recipes, and like sharing our food! We are a group of young women in our 20s and 30s. Sorry guys, but this group is for the ladies only. Join us if you want to meet other fun, friendly women in the city who enjoy cooking (especially healthy cooking). Whether you are new to the area, want to t …

I've been working with yeast lately and LOVING it! Would love to spend an afternoon baking with people that LOVE to bake and LOVE to eat! All you have to do is come and bring your ready to bake items! We will also bake something together. SCONES is what we are baking this Sunday!