See and experience first hand, the inner workings, of the worlds most exciting Food Scene while you cook, taste, tour and work side by side with the people that make it happen. Meet top New York Chefs, feast on the most enticing foods at legendary restaurants and shops, for once in a lifetime experiences, you’ll never forget. Discover the life, pulse and culture of New York's Food Scene as we take you on and off the beaten path, to explore the inner working of the city's rich and proud culinary …

Welcome raw/vegans, those interested in healthy food and lifestyle, chefs, artists, and the peculiar! We are an enthusiastic bunch of creative, health conscious, loving individuals eager to share the raw vegan lifestyle. We are committed to community, facilitating raw food education, potlucks, field trips, exploring local restaurants, and more, sharing innovative, high-vibe, healthy gastronomy. We are pushing the boundaries with raw vegan cuisine, mixing exotic flavors, making gourmet plates, pl …

Eat Me! New York is part of FeastMonkey.com, a national social network of chefs and foodies who get together face to face for unique adventure dining experiences. We rely on our members to help post ideas and organize meetup events. If you have an idea just post it and see who likes it. If we get enough interest we'll make it happen. Join our national members on http://www.feastmonkey.com to receive special offers and get invited to exclusive events. You can also follow us on twitter or facebook …

Supper Clubs Underground Dining! Become A Member and get Invited! We're providing a  way to connect you with good food and the chefs who create it! Private Chefs - Personal Chefs - Caterers and anyone with a Passion for Cooking and Eating are all welcome to join this group ! Come One Come All ! Open to anyone who love food and enjoy eating and attending secret dinner parties and socializing with other people. Sometimes Friends and sometimes total strangers. Also the place for people who will l …

This is a group for people who want to learn and share their knowledge about holistic lifestyles, healthy eating, and food preperation. The Organizer, Gail Zikri, has trained with some of the most notable chefs/health pros in the tri-state area and throughout the country . She is a great vegan, vegetarian and raw-living food chef and educator and has been teaching Yoga for over 15 years. She currently conducts various classes in the Hoboken and NYC area, and will even give classes in your own ki …

Founded in 2006 with a proven track record of extraordinary sugar art workshops and opportunities for members, the NYC Cake Decorators Meetup is the first and largest cake decorating group based in New York City.  Benefits include discounts at selected events; consultation with advanced cake designers, and networking opportunities with top sugar artists in the Tri-State area and beyond. NYC Cake Decorators have had Meetups with Mike McCarey, Lauren Kitchens, Bronwen Weber, MimiCafe Union, Julie …

We all love to tell those “you’re not going to believe this…”stories from our past, but: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DID SOMETHING STORY WORTHY? Yes, we are all constantly engrossed in a whirlwind of goodhearted, enjoyable activities… but for me it’s those “one crazy night” stories that make life worth living! There is a litany of unusual, wild, engaging, alarming, thought-provoking and straight up crazy events going on all around us. You just need a group of uninhibited cohorts to do them with …

Do you have a meaningful project that could use a competent co-founder within another field? Are you limited on time and venues to find that special business partner but full of creativity and optimism, looking for a space and community to share and listen to worthwhile ideas? Whether you're a developer with a fantastic idea, hoping to connect with a knowledgable lawyer, chef, broker, etc. that would give your project insight and wings... OR A competent lawyer, chef, broker, etc. looking for an …

Cooking Classes,Cooking, Recipes, Dining Out, Walking Food Tours and the list goes on... This group does anything and everything culinary related. I am a professional chef and hold all types of events from professional cooking classes to informal cooking events at my home. We dine out at high end restaurants, as well as restaurants that offer $20 all you can drink brunches. I am not elitist - good food is good food - no matter the ambience!!! I love exploring International cuisines - here you wi …

Like eating and drinking?  Like making new friends and having great conversations?  Then join us as we eat our way through Manhattan, from cheap eats to five star restaurants, dive bars to upscale lounges and wine bars, meals for serious foodies and gatherings over comfort food for all - making culinary stops anywhere and everywhere between.  We're looking for fun, friendly people who love to have a great time over a great meal.  IF that's you - then please join our adventures in dining out in h …

Meet fellow Raw Foodists near you! Come to a local Raw Food Meetup to have fun, share raw/living food & vegan recipes and share your experiences with this fun & dynamic community. Anyone interested in the raw/live food diet and lifestyle is welcome! Meet others interested in taking their life and health to the next level with Raw, Live Vegan & SuperFoods. This is an amazing space where you can: Connect with others. Share and receive raw food recipes, tips etc with other members of the group …

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Cooking real, whole food is a lost art in our society. This is a group of people who meet up to teach and learn from one another various traditional food preparation techniques, including preserving the harvest, baking, fermenting, sprouting, and much more! Join us if you are enthusiastic about learning and teaching about wholesome food, whether you are a novice cook wanting to shift away from processed foods or a gourmet natural foods chef. Our bent is toward Traditional Nutrition but all view …

At our Nourishing USA's headquarters in New York City volunteers preform direct service in the community and strive to achieve “nutrition for all”. Nourishing USA is a United States-based non-profit organization. It consists of a nationwide network of more than 2000 community advocates and food rescue organizations that serves in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. The organization supports approximately 500 local charitable agencies operating including pantries, soup kitchens, senior cen …

From the professional to the home cook, this group caters to those who love to make and share authentic, home cooked meals. We gather regularly to cook for each other, share recipes and tips, and meet other good people. The group is a part of Feastly, an online marketplace that connects passionate cooks with hungry eaters to offer homemade meals prepared and served in a cook's home. We have a growing following of hundreds of cooks and thousands of eaters in D.C. and NY. Now, back to the meetup!  …

If you're fanatical about food, you've found the right table. And there's no wait. We are the people who review, blog, discuss, find, chat-about anything and everything, from appetizers and aperitifs, to dessert and digestifs. Soup to nuts. If it's about food, we are in the know. We FriendsEAT...love Gourmet and always ....Bon Appetit.

What is "The Art of Active Networking" and why do we do it? There was a recent article suggesting this staggering statistic: “Given the opportunity, over 70 percent of ALL people are not happy with their job, career or with what they are doing…and given the opportunity would change it!” Seems like a whole lot of people who do not love what they do when they wake up in the morning. With so many people unhappy, searching for jobs, shifting jobs, building their business, practice or consultancy a …

Exploration Dining is community of food lovers who find and share the best culinary experiences cities have to offer. The Exploration guides generally negotiate kick ass incentives to restaurants we explore so you not only get to mingle with top chefs, sip with sommeliers, and find hidden treasures, but you also don't break the bank while doing so. We are a community of experience filled with those passionate about life and excited by food and wine. We live and we dine and life is too short not …

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

Meet other New Yorkers who like to cook! If you're a foodie like me, you dream of finding others who love food too and know their way around the kitchen. Here's a great way to explore your cooking and eating dreams and adventures. This meetup group is open to anyone who loves food and enjoys cooking w/ people ... "beginner" cooks to "master" chefs are all welcome! :) Our meetups will include fun & interactive cooking parties, cooking lessons and ethnic food walking tours!  Trips to New York City …

Our monthly gatherings with chef Divya Alter feature a four course vegetarian Ayurvedic dinners. Each delicious course is carefully designed to ensure maximum nutritional, bio-energetic (pranic) and healing value. Dinner is served in a relaxed community atmosphere. Opening you to meet your neighbor and make meaningful connections all while enjoying a beautiful meal.

We are a group of enthusiastic spanish chefs who teach at Leti´s Catering School. Our meetup will show cool inspiring places and restaurants where you can taste the most delicious tapas in NYC. We teach spanish cooking classes all over the city in the most amazing kitchens. Come and join the fun!!!

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in NYC - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll talk abo …

Meet fellow Israeli-Wine Enthusiasts like you in a casual, easy-going and fun atmosphere! Come to our Metro New York City meetups to taste exciting Israeli wines - just great wines that overcome the sweet, sacramental wine stereotype.  We respect everyone and follow a simple rule -- don't mix Kosher with non-Kosher wines -- so all wines and foods are Kosher during a Kosher tasting. Non-Kosher tastings are marked with NK in the announcements.  Everyone is encouraged to voice his/her opinion …

Attention brewers, bakers, butchers, canners, chefs and all other food industry innovators! The goal of this group is to raise the success rate of food entrepreneurs. We want you to "fail less". Not starting a company? That's OK, this group will also equip people at large food companies with the tools to innovate. We will explore the application of Lean Startup (Eric Ries) and Customer Development (Steve Blank) methods from the tech world to food industry startups. In other words, we'll learn ho …

NEW YORK SOCIETY OF MIXOLOGY We ameliorate 8 million lively souls, in the most legendary city in the world, with a single sip. Our cocktails crafted with heart and hand. The society is a meet up established for aspiring bartenders, sommliers, flair bartenders, mixologist, and cocktail chefs. Other restaurant professionals are welcome. This community was originally devised as a career support group for bartenders searching for a job in the food and hospitality field. Yet, we want to expand to b …

Maria Alexandra Bella is a registered dietitian and the founder of Top Balance nutrition located in New York City. Maria started her career in nutrition with a weight loss of over 70 lbs that she has been able to maintain since 2006. Her own experience that that of many of her patients allowed Maria to understand the importance of accountability, ongoing support as well as the most reliable and up-to-date information in order to achieve lasting weight loss. Our weekly weight loss support group …