Monday, September 1

  • Coi and SAGE

    Monday, September 1 | Coi | 373 Broadway, San Francisco, CA | $250.00

    This dinner was a collaborative meal between Coi and Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE). Chef Daniel Patterson presented an elegant and innovative 9-course menu, in addition to passed hors d’oeuvres and dessert. In keeping with SAGE’s mission of promoting sustainable agriculture, the meal featured fresh ingredients from the Bay Area’s best farms and producers.

  • Serpentine & The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance

    Monday, September 1 | Serpentine | 2495 Third Street, San Francisco, CA | $85.00 (gratuity not included)

    This vegetarian slow feast was a collaboration between Chef Leif Hedendal and The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, hosted by Serpentine restaurant. The featured farm for the evening was Oak Hill Farm in Sonoma County. Wine from local and sustainable wineries were included in the price.The meal also featured a wide variety of stone fruit from Blossom Bluff Orchards, dry-farmed early girl tomatoes from Dirty Girl Farm in Santa Cruz, delectables from Brook Budner’s garden in the Mission, Alemany Farm in San Francisco, Knoll Farms, and herbs from San Francisco’s school gardens. The meal also used all kinds of local forageables including many different forest mushrooms. The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance works to support the network of established and emerging school gardens throughout the San Francisco public schools. These outdoor classrooms are where students are exploring the entire spectrum of education standards as well as discovering the delight of growing, harvesting, and eating their own food. This dinner was a fundraiser for them.

  • Laiola and Alemany Farm

    Monday, September 1 | Laiola | 2031 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA | Price varied

    Laiola and Alemany Farm paired for a dinner celebrating local food systems. Laiola is San Francisco’s little Spanish darling: A 50-seat taverna with fire colored walls, a long copper bar and high top leather banquettes housed in a Spanish revival building in the Marina. Three star reviews from both The Chronicle and The Examiner prove Laiola’s 100 Spanish label wine list and best of season menu by Chez Panisse alum, Mark Denham, are sure to please.

    Alemany Farm, a 4.5-acre organic fruit and vegetable operation, is San Francisco’s largest food production site. Through our teen apprenticeship program, we give low-income youth meaningful job skills in the budding green economy. Through our participation in the Bayview-Hunters Point farmers market and our free senior citizen food distribution program, we help ensure that all communities — regardless of ethnicity or income — have access to quality organic food. Our weekend community workdays give residents from across San Francisco the chance to learn how to grow their own food.

    Alemany Farm produce including lettuces, basil, beets, carrots, and tomatoes was served at the dinner. Ten percent of proceeds from the dinners went to benefit Alemany Farm.

  • Nopa and Community Alliance with Family Farmers

    Monday, September 1 | 560 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA | $40 (average meal price) plus donation

    Nopa and the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) joined forces during Slow Food Nation to increase awareness of Nopa’s dedicated local food procurement practices and the spectacular work of CAFF and their Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign. Guests savored a delicious, seasonally inspired meal and donated to CAFF’s efforts to preserve sustainable, family-owned farms.