San Francisco Foodies

4.8•940 ratings

San Francisco, CA, US

About us

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

A Very San Francisco Summer Picnic Potluck and BBQ - Golden Gate Park

Sat, Sep 5 · 11:00 AM PDT

Blue Heron Boathouse in GG Park, 50 Blue Heron Lake Drive,, San Francisco, CA, US

A Very San Francisco Summer Picnic Picnic Potluck and BBQ
A Fundraiser for Tenderloin Tessie
September is the start of a San Francisco summer, and San Francisco Foodies is taking advantage of the cool, but not cold weather for an outdoor potluck picnic in wonderful Golden Gate Park.

Tenderloin Tessie is a very San Francisco Non-Profit who provides Holiday meals (Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter) for people who do not have any local family to spend the holiday, mainly San Francisco's Elders and new arrivals. Tenderloin Tessie has been doing this every year for over fifty (50) years, different than similar non-profits, their dinners treat the attendees as diners to a full service dinner.

A five ($5) dollar donation can be sent through Tenderloin Tessie's website, San Francisco Foodies doesn't act as a middle person for their donations, nor do we profit.

This is a return to the Potluck Picnic format with grills available.
A potluck is where each attendee brings something they either made or bought from a restaurant that matches the theme, our theme is San Francisco Labor Day. Bring a dish that reflects your work, or the work you want to do. Artsy, mechanical, all forms are welcome.

Our site has grills for the finishing marks and heat, and also for sliders, hamburgers and hotdogs, add condiments to make them as foodie as you want.

We'll have a Condiment Swap, a Recipe Swap and a San Francisco Foodie Recommendation List (and a catchy name for the list) for restaurants, Pop Ups, Bars, Festivals anywhere food can be found. I'll publish after the picnic. Also, a meeting for New Organizers and those that may want to host events. Come join our group of thirteen event organizers.

Please bring a Potluck dish of your creation to feed about six people, or from your favorite restaurant, Roast Pork, Dim Sum, Sandwiches, Pies, Cupcakes are always a hit.

To signup with what dish you are bringing use eventbrite link, which will also create a nice pass to remember this event.

Agenda

11 - Site Setup
11:30 Cooking for those items that need a touch of heat.
NOON - Eating and Greeting
1 - Condiment Exchange (described below)
1:30 - Recipe Exchange
2 - San Francisco Foodie Recommendations (described below)
3 - Clean Up and Until next year!

First at least a $20 donation is requested for our Non-Profit of the year, a URL for where that donation can be sent (HERE TBD).

Second I am asking for volunteers, to help check people in, take donations and organize the food and drinks. I will have a separate dinner event to thank the 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, TBD

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.

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 Restaurant List. This will be a non-ranked list of Twenty-Five amazing meals from the great attendees.
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.
Recipe Exchange: Bring a recipe and exchange with the various foodies who come.

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 eleven years I have hosted a picnic to raise money for a San Francisco Non-Profit. As I said above, this year's non-profit is Tenderloin Tessie.

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.

Another year we 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. Finally last year was Muttville, we raised about $200.

Adminsitrivia
Site has a slope entrance and a parking lot nearby, but is not easily accessible for those with mobility problems, however in past years we have had people in wheelchairs (with large wheels) and persons who were blind who were able to attend and enjoyed the festivities.

Use event comments for Car Pooling and Ride Sharing.

Many thanks for the photos and history from restaurant website

#EatSanFrancisco #SanFranciscoFoodies #SFFoodies

Photos and history from unsplash - credit Vino Li