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What food inspires passion and excitement in your? If you say, "chocolate," then this is the Meetup group for you. Meet with people who love chocolate? eating it, tasting it, trying it, cooking with it, and living with really great chocolate. Come to chocolate salons, chocolate tastings, wine events, cooking classes, chef demos, book signings, and other tasty stuff.

This meet up is for book lovers and fans of coffee, wine, and beer! Open to young, educated professionals and graduate students that love to read and need a balance in life. We read both fiction and non-fiction books and explore all the great local restaurants, bars, parks, roof decks, and coffeeshops in Seattle! This is a laid back and actively social group, join for good company, social activities, and conversations! Some of the books we have read so far: What is the What, Brothers K, Roald Da …

… This community meets at least monthly, either at someone's home, a public establishment (such as PCC, 509 Wines, etc.), or a restaurant we want to try. You should join this group if any or all of these apply: you are committed to buying local, organic, seasonal foods as much as possible, you want to share your expertise in or learn how to cook, bake, and do so with all non-gluten containing products you have resources, skills and more to share with others you love food and strongly value excell …

A love of testing new cuisines and locally and sustainably grown ingredients. to provide a forum for good food and wine and interesting people to come together. Each feast starts with a cocktail hour and features a comprehesive menu with wine pairings and dessert, along with the spirit, music and ambience, of a particular region. Our guests are social, open-minded adventurers."

This is a group for intimate gatherings at chef's restaurants. The idea is to visit non-chain venues in the greater Seattle area--places that are small, focused, and dedicated to the art of food, not the commerce. Please understand that the mission of this group is somewhat different from some of the other dining groups. While it's social, it will never be organized around large "meet and greet"-style gatherings. Each event will be very small, and we will not visit corporate or chain restaura …

This is the meetup group to join for the most variety of Cooking and Food related meetups. We have meetups where all members cook all recipes for a set menu at the meetup, Mini Cooking contests where all vote on the dishes they like the best, Food Themed parties and more. We tend to cook a wide variety of cusines often with recipes from that region. Most of our past meetups have recipe links. All level of cooks as well as +1's are welcome, with our meetups designed to introduce new recipes and a …

Art lovers have been meeting at Gasworks Gallery, in the Fremont / Wallingford district, quarterly for several years. It has turned into a huge free eclectic gallery party. We go through several cases of imported wine and have lots of great food for our guests. Everyone is ultra cool and we support MashedPotatoes.org's drive to feed people in the NW. Come and join us for a fun and free art party at Gasworks Gallery from 8 to 10pm every first Friday in March, June, September and December! …

Most people love going out and enjoying life and meeting new friends. But it can get pretty expensive quickly, especially here. So this group is all about enjoying things under a budget so that everyone can participate. Sure we may splurge once in a while but we will also do fun things like happy hour, free concerts/events, group dinner deals etc.   So we are not a group of cheapies, just smart consumers who wants to maximize their fun time.   We're working on several events but if you have a su …

Calling all grammar police, East coast transplants, BBC news junkies, and anyone else with a bit of intellect, wit, or a big mouth. The purpose of Snarky In Seattle is to provide a place for clever folks, with an over the top sense of humor, to find each other. So if you're a fan of Dane Cook, Margaret Atwood, Seinfeld,  drag shows, basement theater, or Futurama, you'll fit right in. This group is just getting started so this description will evolve. Run-on sentences are my forte. Deal with it, …