What we’re about
This group is for visiting San Francisco Bay Area restaurants and other events that have foodie interest or a food centric theme. Such as food and wine festivals, Eat, Drink San Francisco, the San Francisco Chocolate Festival and San Francisco Street Food Festival.
While food and beverages are of primary importance, this is a social group for having fun, making new friends and keeping touch with others, trying something new, or visiting an old favorite, yet again. Join with a friend or two, or eat with strangers and find common and uncommon feasts of food, conversation and an occasional butterfly.
Attendees
Please be prompt or message your host directly (perhaps use the new chat feature) comments are delayed by as much as an hour. Dress is usually casual, use your own judgement, on a rare occasion a jacket, dress or no shorts may be required. And please take pictures of your food and upload them to our group, San Francisco Foodies maintains that the photographer maintains ownership of their art. If you want to take pictures of guests please remember to ask their permission before. Bullying and derogatory remarks are causes for removal from an event and this group. Not paying for your ordered items most likely will result in legal action.
Administrative Trivia
There are no dues. However some events require a deposit for joining. A deposit is spent toward an attendee’s bill (restaurants sometimes charge a deposit from $5, $50 or the entire cost of a meal and beverage $400).
Events are usually free to attend but each member and their guests pay for their respective meals, drinks, some events have split appetizers or family style meals where each person pays the same price and all share the meal. These details are in each event. Restaurants usually charge city tax and a mandatory gratuity. In San Francisco a percentage for employee insurance. Expect 30% to 35% added to your order.
Some Events ask for attendees to prepay a portion of any deposits or venue costs. These are paid events.
Nonprofit Fundraisers are where a donation is requested, a nonprofit is selected, usually rated 100% (some local charities are not nationally rated but all of their donations are 100% used to support their activities). For our events San Francisco Foodies asks donations to be given to the nonprofit directly, any donations collected are forwarded (100%). These are also marked as paid events.
Event Organizers are unpaid volunteers, however, some may charge a fee. Those will be paid events and full disclosure of where fees go are in each event's description. San Francisco Foodies is always looking for new volunteers as organizers and adding new events.
Use of Meetup Comments and Chat for spam is forbidden. Suggesting events is encouraged. If the event is in another group please contact an event organizer to co-host with our group. Much better to become an event organizer with our group and host an event yourself.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Pizza at Jules: Table for 4 (Family Style, $25 deposit)Jules, San Francisco, CA$25.00
When you grow up in the Bay Area with two moms, one Jewish and one Italian, you care about food. You like eating it, making it, sharing it, talking about it, thinking about it -- you get the idea. Food is nostalgia. The tastes and smells bring back all kinds of memories. For us, one of those core memories is making pizza at home for family and friends. Was it the best pizza in the world? Hell no! This was before pizza steels, portable pizza ovens, and home sourdough starters. This was under-fermented, over-baked, heavily topped family pizza made with mom and a ton of love, and it freaking ruled.
But we all have to grow up. So when our chef, Max Blachman-Gentile, left his mom’s kitchen for ones in New York — Roberta’s, Mission Chinese Food, Luksus, Tørst, and The Standard Hotel -- before finally making it back home to one of his childhood favorites Tartine, where he was the Culinary Director. Still, he couldn't fill the slice-shaped hole in his heart that pizza had left.
Jules was born out of those memories and love. Our love for pizza, and for eating good food with good people. Our love for the Bay Area, where we were born and raised and where some of the best ingredients in the world are also born and raised. And our love for the people who cooked for us and taught us how to cook, and for the ones who taught them. We wanted that love to be baked into every pizza we share, so we chose to honor our grandmas, who went by the nickname Jules.
Come pizza party with us, it'll be just like mom used to make! (but kind of way better because this is our job)
Description from restaurant website
Menu and Reviews
Menu
Jules (SFGate)
Jules (The Infatuation)
Jules (Yelp)
Jules (Google)Administrative Trivia
Given that we will be sharing dishes, we will split the bill evenly, with the exception of any dishes and/or beverages that you order for your own consumption. Appetizers range from $14 to $19, pizzas range from $19 to $25. Beer and wine are available and can easily increase the cost.The restaurant charges a $25 cancellation fee per person. I will be collecting $25 from each guest by Venmo, Zelle, or CashApp. This will be subtracted from what you owe after the dinner. Please be prepared to pay organizer by cash, Venmo, Zelle, or CashApp,
Dress is casual.
Taxes and Fees
Dining in San Francisco has a sales tax (8.625%) and probably an employee health mandate (3-10%), a tip (20%) may be automatically added, even on individual bills. I calculate each diner's orders separately unless they allow separate orders, separate checks, the meal is shared or family style, and round up.Parking and Transportation
MUNI: 6, 7, 22, Van Ness Station, Church Street Station.
Street parking in the Lower Haight is usually difficult.
Use event comments for Car Pooling and Ride Sharing. - Pizza @ Little Star on Valencia (Family Style Dinner)Little Star Pizza, San Francisco, CA
Details
Foodies, it's time for another round of pizza palooza! Deep Dish or Thin crust? No need to choose, we will have both @ Little Star on Valencia.
Known and loved for their deep dish cornmeal crust, Little Star has locations in SF, Alameda, Albany & Portland (Oregon). Their sister restaurant Blue Line serves delicious pies throughout the Peninsula and South Bay.Pizzas are hearty! Please note this will be a family style dinner. Food will be plated and served to be shared by the table. The cost will be evenly divided among all attendess.
Please expect to dine on Classic or Italian combo, A Chicken Pizza, and/or ALL-Star pizza. See MENUAdministrative Trivia
Attendees and Waitlist, please be mindful to manage your RSVP at least 24 hours before the event.
Dinner pricing is about $35 per person. Each diner is responsible for their portion of the bill. Beer and wine are available; Beverage and any other ala carte items ordered will also be the responsibility of the diner. There will be one check! I will consolidate and divvy up the final bill accordingly. Please be prepared to pay the organizer/host by Cash, Apple Cash, Venmo, or Zelle.Taxes and Fees
Dining in San Francisco has a sales tax (8.625%) an an employee health mandate (3%-8%), and tip (20%+). To determine individual cost I calculate x1.34 to the raw amount which includes all of these (rounded up to whole dollar).Parking and Transportation
Located at in the heart of San Francisco's Mission district at 400 Valencia at the corner of 14th St. Approximately two blocks from Mission & 16th St BART/MUNI exit or by bus 14 or 49 at Mission St & 14th St stop. If driving, neighborhood street parking is limited but available, please allow yourself ample time. - Network event9 attendees from 3 groups hostingDinner and Opera: Idomeneo with Dinner before at Max's Opera CafeWar Memorial Opera House - San Francisco Opera Box Office, San Francisco, CA
Idomeneo on June 20, 2025 at 7:30 at War Memorial Opera House
buy tickets: Idomeneo Tickets ($28 and up)
Mosart's opera follows the story of King Idomeneo, who is caught in a storm at sea and makes a vow to Poseidon to sacrifice the first person he meets on land in exchange for his own safety. The complex plot unfolds with themes of love, duty, and redemption.Buy tickets early
Max's Opera Cafe
601 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-771-7300Dinner at 5:00p
The first Max's opened during 1978 in Burlingame, San Francisco's Max's Opera Cafe soon followed, featuring singing servers, bistro style deli food, and their restaurant empire took off. Founded by Dennis Berkowitz on the principles of treating people fairly and providing high quality food at a great price.
from San Mateo Daily Journal (2012)Currently Michael Adams is the General Manager and Executive Chef Carlos Salcedo.
Burlingame's Max's was my first experience with this Northern California staple, they all have a large menu, with delicious selections of deli sandwiches, seafood, pasta, steaks and huge desserts. I especially enjoyed their made at your table iced tea, providing an elegance to a simple order, like hushed angel wings you could only imagine what would arrive later.
Bring your sense of wonder and appetite, for this day we dine as kings.
Menus and Reviews
Max's Opera Cafe requests no reviews
Max's Opera Cafe
Max's Opera Cafe LocationAdministrative Trivia
Max's Opera Cafe's menu shows three course dinner pricing is about $35-$50 per person, excluding tax and tip. Alcoholic drinks can easily increase this average. Dress is smart casual.Each diner is responsible for their own orders and costs but we will have to consolidate and divvy up the final bill accordingly, if we cannot have separate checks. Please bring cash or have Zelle or Apple Cash available.
Taxes and Fees
Dining in San Francisco has a sales tax (8.625%) and probably an employee health mandate (3-10%), a tip (20%) may be automatically added, even on individual bills. I calculate each diner's orders separately unless the meal is shared or family style, and round up.Parking and Transportation
MUNI: California Street Cable Car is 8 blocks away, 49, 47, Civic Center Muni KLMN
BART: Civic Center
Finding street parking in Civic Center/Hayes Valley is usually difficult.
Parking garage can be found nearby (3-4 blocks)
Use event comments for Car Pooling and Ride Sharing.Photos and history from San Francisco Opera website
- Rich Table: Table for 9 ($105 USD prepay +tax/tip)Rich Table, San Francisco, CA$105.00
Rich Table
Rich Table is a restaurant in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California.[1] The restaurant serves American[2] / Californian[3] / New American[4] cuisine. Rich Table formerly held a Michelin star from 2014 until 2021.[5]
from Wikipedia (Rich Table)This petite Hayes Valley delight is packed nightly and yet nobody seems to care about its stream of crowds. Simply decked with a light-and-dark color scheme along with distressed wood, the room features a laid-back style and rustic-chic farmhouse vibe. It books out far in advance, so arrive early to score a seat at the bar, where trendy types can be found devouring the Californian fare, infused with global ingredients and fine-dining precision.
The hip staff is quick on their feet and may present diners with a salmon tostada slathered with tangy avocado purée and dots of salsa verde; or lobster chow mein garnished with charred corn and scallions. Advertised as dessert, cucumber sherbet with diced melon and watermelon granita is a perfect bite by itself.
from Michelin (Rich Table)Ranked #3 in San Francisco Bay Area for 2025
from San Francisco Chronicle 100 top RestaurantsDean's Take
I tried for years to find a table there, Evan and Sara Rich struck gold. Since then I have managed to enjoy their assembly of tastes with undeniably one of the best kitchens and service staff in California if not a much larger reach.Rich Table is a Californian style restaurant. Fresh ingredients from the best sources, mostly local, intertwined with amazing skills drawing from French, Italian and other fine culinary backgrounds including our American skills. I had a ribeye there that was one of the best ever, my secret steak restaurant.
Now.. for the full story, I love my steak rare, but not bloody, a plate of oily water is never appealing. And, as many of you I am sure, I was taught at a young age that if you can cook a dish at home, don't order it at a restaurant - a waste of money. Even I can cook a medium rare steak (not as good as most professional restaurants) but much less expensive.
Rich Table's Dry aged Rib-Eye was amazing, great selection of beef, flavor, cold inside, and a perfect char outside. No bloody mess, no oily water, every bite was flavorful and tender and wow.. I think I just relived that meal.
Many reviewers rave about their pasta, and I have no notes rave away.
Also, their appetizers, a friend and I stopped by I swear on a stack of Julia's favorite - well, everything is Julia's favorite (according to what she said and wrote, food wise at least) - we ate everything they served that day, sitting in the bar, all hot, fresh, amazing. There were no bad bites.
This event is tied to the PRIDE Concert as a dinner before the show, hopefully I won't eat so much I sleep through the concert, but *sigh* into the trenches I go for all of you. ❤️ Seriously, please buy a ticket to the concert raising money to support life lines now at risk in the LGBTQA+ community.
Come have fun.
Eat San Francisco.
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Menus and Reviews
Rich Table
Rich Table (Yelp*)
Rich Table (Michelin)Administrative Trivia
Rich Table has a set prix fixe meal for $105. There is gratuity and a Service Fee of 6.5% (at the time of this writing) and tax of 8.625% for a total of $143), not including drinks and alcohol.The base $105 is required as a deposit and will be refunded when the bill arrives. This is payable via Apple Cash, Zelle or in person.
Dress is relaxed-formal.Parking and Transportation
MUNI: KLMNF (6 min walk), BUS 6,7 (6 min walk)
Finding street parking in Hayes Valley at Rush Hour is usually impossible.
Parking garage can be found at ??? (if you know of a spot please let us know)
Use event comments for Car Pooling and Ride Sharing.Photos and history from Michelin Guide and restaurant website
