Want to learn how to cook like a pro and make it look easy? Let me show you how! I am a professional chef who has worked at some of the finest restaurants in San Francisco. You need no prior cooking knowledge and will have a completely hands-on experience. Classes will be small and tailored to your specific level of skill. Here are some of the things you will learn: > Create a four-course menu and execute it. - Learn how to design and execute a menu and look good doing it. > Knife …

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 …

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 :-)

Hi ladies! I am new to the area and am looking to form fun and lasting friendships with intelligent, strong, positive and sassy women. You know who you are! Ones who can hold their own in a world of men while rocking the heels. If you enjoy wine tasting, movie nights, baking, happy hour, shopping, weekend trips and a plethora of girly things ... then you should definitely join the group! Significant others are most definitely welcome to couple nights! I love dinner parties (an excuse to drink wi …

In the Mood for Food a local vegan catering and personal chef business has been hosting classes and other events for several years. Currently hosting at least one event each week in the bay area.

This group is for women mostly aged 25-35 (though all are welcome) that would like to read, cook,  and/or walk with a group on a regular basis. We have a book club on the first Tuesday evening of every month that will probably focus on mostly fiction of the chick lit variety, a monthly cooking club, and there will also be a standing Sunday meeting for those interested in walking around Lake Elizabeth. Please feel free to pick and choose what events interest you! *Attendance Policy* We want to ma …

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 …

What food inspires passion and excitement in your? If you say, "chocolate," then this is the Meetup group for you. Meet with people who love chocolate? eating it, tasting it, trying it, cooking with it, and living with really great chocolate. Come to chocolate salons, chocolate tastings, wine events, cooking classes, chef demos, book signings (The Chocolate Guide, 2008), and other tasty stuff.

Do you love to eat? Do you love to cook or bake or want to meet somebody who does? Do you like to meet new people? Then this is the group for you! Anyone with a good attitude and a good appetite is welcome.

Meal Swap provides tremendous time and financial savings, and simplified trips to the grocery store. But high on the list of benefits is that even in the midst of sometimes hectic days, you will no longer stress about what to make for dinner! You will save money on groceries because items can be bought in bulk and there is much less food waste.

Want to learn how to make a great pie? Are those pesky crusts giving you trouble? If you answered yes, this is the group for you. Join us and learn the art of making a pie.

We love making good foods at home, especially cultured or fermented foods, such as: yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, pickles, cheese, and sourdough. And we love to preserve foods, too, like fruits and vegetables, maybe even sausage. And then there's always dehydration, sprouting and herb-growing to discuss. If you also enjoy this sort of kitchen alchemy, please join us to exchange tips and tricks, teach each other techniques, share our latest culinary triumphs and tragedies, and trade reci …

Wouldn't it be great to discover authentic and delicious food made by your local community? We think so! Grubalicious is a private dining club that features everyday chefs and their signature dishes. I've you'd like to sign up to be a local chef and host a dinner, drop me a note!  Big or small, any event, your call!  Grubalicious offers a terrific way to meet new and interesting people, share food with friends and meet the face behind your meal. Dinners are kept relatively small and intimate and …

This group enables Slow Food Bay Area members to produce and attend "underground" meals at home. Meet new people, eat slow food!

This group is for happy, social, bay area women looking to have fun while meeting new people and building friendships! - Happy Hours - Volunteering - Dining Out - Movie Night - Exercise/ Yoga / Fitness Classes - Book Clubs...   This group evolves with the interest and participation of our members, so you get out of it what you are willing to put in. If you have an idea for something fun to do, suggest it along with #1-date and #2-location. Most of our events will take place …

BRAND NEW GROUP! Started 3/14. We are a fun, down-to-earth women who like to talk, laugh, eat, drink and even learn a little all while cultivating new, meaningful friendships. If you are anything like me you have realized that all of your friends have either moved away (or you have moved away), have small children or just aren’t interested/don’t have time to “hang out” anymore. But when you want to go out, wouldn't it be nice to have a "crew?" You know, like Sex & The City. Some of the larger gr …