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.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Dinner at Burdell (Table for 6)Burdell, Oakland , CA
Burdell is a Soul Food restaurant in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland from Chef Geoff Davis.
Join us for a table of 6 with shareable starters and individually your main dish. If everyone votes yes, we could choose the 4 course whole table Roasted Rabbit Prix Fixe ($90pp) instead.
Menus and Reviews
The menu highlights the farmers and artisans harvesting and creating excellent products around us. Paired with the food is a robust list of wine and beverages from producers from around the World; focused on wine farmed and crafted with care and sustainable practices.2024 Food and Wine Restaurant of the Year (9/2024 Food and Wine)
Why Burdell in Oakland Is the No. 1 Restaurant in America (Re: 2025 F&W Global Tastemakers kudos 4/2025 Food and Wine)Administrative Trivia
Dinner pricing averages $60 per person, supplements and beverage will increase this amount. Each diner is responsible for the total cost of what they order. Take raw bill x1.30 for your total payment (tax and automatic tip). Organizer will manage one singular bill and form of payment for the check. Please be prepared to pay the organizer by Cash, Zelle, AppleCash.Dress is business casual.
Please allow for plenty of time for parking, prompt attendance is appreciated. Full party must be available to be seated.
Attendees and Waitlist, Please have consideration manage your reservation 48 hours prior to event if you are no longer interested in this event.
Parking and Transportation
Street parking is possible but may be impacted. Otherwise, BART MacArthur Station and/or parking and walk 16m to Burdell on Telegraph. - Hém Modern Vietnamese from the San Francisco Bay’s Vietnamese Street Food kingsHém by LeQuay , San Francisco , CA
Hem by LeQuy
An upscale Vietnamese Street Food restaurant by LeQuy a San Francisco Bay area chain of three restaurants, two in the south bay and one in San Francisco's Castro. Hém opened a few months ago, but seems to be humming along quite well. A good friend pointed this restaurant out.Hém has a new menu, and an affordable Mission Vibe. Come try the Vietnamese your mother warned you about. Mainly Snails.. their menu features Sea Snails in a variety of sauces.
Le Quy is a Vietnamese Poet, who was given the task of uniting two factions and providences in Vietnam, then later an ambassador to China in the mid 1700s.
Professional Review
Two things are guaranteed at Hem By LeQuy in the Mission: a satisfying meal and no wait. With another location in the Castro, it’s not a surprise this outpost hums along smoothly. Food hits the table within minutes, and the staff keeps a sharp eye from behind the bar so you’re never left needing anything. The menu is sprawling, but focus on the meat-heavy bowls of phở and the garlic butter sea snails, which are so buttery they might slip out of your hands. In a neighborhood full of excellent spots that require hour-long sidewalk vigils or treat snagging a reservation like a Ticketmaster presale, Hem is an exception.
from Hém (The Infatuation)Menus and Reviews
Hém (by LeQuy)
LeQuy (Instagram)Administratriva
Hém's menu shows dinner pricing is about $35 per person, excluding tax and tip. Alcoholic drinks can easily increase this average.Dress is Mission Chic
Taxes and Restaurant 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, if not we expect a 20% minimum tip to be paid for individual bills.The host calculates each diner's orders separately unless they allow separate orders, separate checks and round the final payment up to the next dollar.
Each diner is responsible for their own orders and costs but we will have to consolidate and divvy up the final bill accordingly.
Please bring cash or have Zelle or Apple Cash available.Transportation
MUNI: 14
Finding street parking in the Mission is usually difficult.
Use event comments for Car Pooling and Ride Sharing.Many thanks for the photos and history from restaurant website.
- San Francisco Giants! Last Regular Season Game Five seats above home plate ($50)24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107, San Francisco, CA$50.00
San Francisco Giants
My Pop Pop grew up in Brooklyn, yeah, I do know his actual neighborhood, rooting for the Dodgers.. Brooklyn Dodgers.. before my time. When they moved to LA, he literally washed his hands of them, and became a huge Yankee's fan... loving every series they won especially over the Dodgers.I talked to him about moving to San Francisco.. and he only had one piece of advice, "Don't root for the Dodgers.. Giants are fine, but never LA."
Giant's stadium has a great selection of food during the game.. I purchased five tickets together above home plate. It's always a fun time, and we can go somewhere after if there is interest. I know a few places around.
We'll meet outside at the Willie May's statue at King and 3rd at 11a and go in at 11:15a, if you are running late I can send a ticket to your phone. Last regular season game.
Cost is $50 for the ticket. send via zelle or apple cash.
History
The San Francisco Giants were founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams, the team was renamed the New York Giants three years later, relocating from New York City to San Francisco in 1958. The Giants play their home games at Oracle Park.The franchise is one of the oldest and most successful in professional baseball, with more wins than any other team in the history of major league sports. The team was the first major-league organization based in New York City, most memorably playing home games at several iterations of the Polo Grounds. The Giants have played in the World Series 20 times. In 2014, the Giants won their then-record 23rd National League Pennant.
The Giants' eight World Series championships are tied for second-most in the NL and are tied for the fifth-most of any franchise.
from wikipedia - Melissa King: Cook Like a King (buy ticket)Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA
Melissa King: Cook Like A King
“Cooking is how I tell my story – one bowl of congee, one flash-fried scallion, one plate of dumplings at a time. It’s a love letter to my mother’s kitchen, the California coast, and every queer Asian kid who ever wondered if they belonged.”
Join Chef Melissa King – Top Chef winner, culinary trailblazer, and beloved food personality—for a deliciously personal evening celebrating her debut cookbook, Cook Like a King: Recipes from My California Chinese Kitchen.
fromBuy Tickets Here (Includes Cookbook)
Many thanks for the photos and history from ticket website
