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San Francisco Foodies

4.7

586 ratings

San Francisco, CA, US

2,955 members · Public group

Organized by Dean Norris and 14 others

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.

Be Well, #Eat San Francisco.

Featured event

Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 11:00 AM PDTA Very San Francisco Summer Picnic - Golden Gate Park

50 Blue Heron Lake Dr, San Francisco, CA

A Very San Francisco Summer Picnic - Golden Gate Park cover photo

A Very San Francisco Summer Picnic
Picnic Potluck Fundraiser for Muttville (a Senior Dog Rescue)
As any local San Franciscan knows October is the best month for outdoor activities, perhaps the last weeks of September are their only competition.

This is a return to the Potluck Picnic.

A potluck is where each attendee brings something they either made or bought that matches the theme, our theme is San Francisco Foodies.

I will post more as we approach October 25, 2025. But here are some events..

First at least a $20 donation is requested for our Non-Profit of the year, if you remember we had a vote back in January... so Muttville was the winner, a no kill shelter that finds homes for senior dogs, many of whom their master left before they will.

Second I am asking for volunteers, to help check people in, take donations and organize the food and drinks. I will have a separate event for volunteers, but you need to sign up for both, and when you sign up here, please put in the comments if you would like to volunteer, first come first chosen. All volunteers are invited to an after party starting at a famous San Francisco Restaurant, The House of Prime Rib.

None of the restaurants and shops mentioned are sponsors of this event.

Alcohol (Beer and Wine) is allowed, as long as it's not in glass containers.

When you sign up please list what you are thinking of bringing, I have a list and will try to have enough mains, sides, appetizers, desserts and drinks. Bring enough to share, feeding around 6-12 people but in smaller portions, and I am sure we will have enough food.

To entice any non-dog lovers to attend:

If we have Five Attendees: I will bring my Not as Good as My Mother's Pasta Salad.
If we have Fifteen Attendees: I will bring ... (to be continued)
If
If
If we have 100 Attendees...

And the site has two BBQ grills, so I can get my grilling bug on.

Agenda
Now.. what will we do there for three hours besides socialize with others in our community? I'll fill in more as we march closer.

All attendees can participate in San Francisco Foodies First ever Restaurant List. This will be a non-ranked list of Twenty-Five amazing meals from the great attendees. I probably won't take recommendations from people not there.
Another Live-in-person event you won't see anywhere else (well not until San Francisco Foodies does it first)..
Ingredient Exchange: Bring some of your ingredients that you don't want, or have too many of; you know that one in the back of your cabinet; and we will exchange them. Use event comments to hype yours, sending them to a new cook.

As a note.. San Francisco Foodies won't charge any place to be listed, if they don't want to be on our list they can opt-out, and we do not have any pay advertising.

History
For the past ten years I have hosted a picnic to raise money for a San Francisco Non-Profit. As I said above, this year's non-profit was voted on in January and Muttville was selected.

We've held this in various picnic areas in San Francisco's World Class Golden Gate Park. We had a high of 135 people at this site in 2019, then of course 2020 had lock-downs, but we were given permission having our reservation so far in advance but only twelve lucky people were allowed to attend by San Francisco Parks and Recreation and we made the most of it, and with an additional fundraiser sent some money to Holiday Meals - Tenderloin Tessie who holds four meals a year at the Unitarian Church for San Franciscans who do not have anyone over the major holidays.

Last year raised money for Trevor's Project. A Suicide Prevention Hotline for young adults, recently losing Federal Funds, they are relying on public support now more than ever, and they are not the only one. San Francisco Foodies from a small group that showed raised over $500.

Photos and history from unsplash - credit Vino Li