We just got home from the Rome class with Chef Mat in Oakland. Everything was well organized and he…read moremade it all easy to understand and follow. The whole process involved teamwork and a lovely communal meal (family style) at the end. Each food item we made was delicious, and there was plenty of food! We enjoyed getting to know some of the other students too. We would return for another class.

Such a fun experience. We took two classes in January, one for Ramen and the other French Bread…read moremaking. Both were such great and unique experiences. Each instructor has their own style and way of teaching their craft which lends to the fun, and they clearly have a passion for cooking or baking. The focus was very hands on, which I loved; so often in cooking classes you are separated and given a "task" so you may miss something you have not done before. Not here, everyone gets to experience each process and that makes it so much more meaningful. I also came away with very specific knowledge I could actually use. Highly recommend to amp up your kitchen game or gift to that special someone.

What a creative team building exercise! She can accommodate up to 10 people. We made 4 dishes with…read more6 people and tag teamed the dishes. Traci gets all the stations prepared ahead of time and some items are even sourced from her own personal garden. She also gave a lovely appetizer before we started cooking (don't cook hungry!). She did a great job helping us all get cook the dishes, I was impressed how attentive she was with all of us and also gave great tips! The food we made (Moroccan) was phenomenal! I will definitely attempt to make these dishes on my own in the future.

I had such a fantastic time at chef Traci's Sauces and Condiments class! It was a lot of fun…read morecooking alongside the group and learning how to make a variety of sauces, most I never would've thought to make before. Every single one turned out delicious -- and we even got to take home small jars of each sauce, which made it super easy to flavor-up meals all week long. I also loved that Traci emailed us the recipes afterwards so we can recreate them at home. Highly recommend this class to anyone who wants to elevate their meals with amazing homemade sauces!

My kids just finished a week with Tracy et. al. at Camp Cookin (not the real name) and it was…read moreamazing and I was not even there! I did show up for the Friday demonstration that really showed me what a great operation they have going on there. These kids made some awesome munchies. Three savory bites and two desserts for us to try. Fish cakes with mango salsa. Veggie tapenade on puff pastry topped with mashed potatoes. THE BOMB. The space is incredible. They have it all. I cannot wait to have a cooking party there. Check it out.

Excellent food, excellent ambience , great people!!! Teachers are awesome they really care for the…read morestudents and I'm proud to say that my kid is part of that great team (family).

Did a virtual online cooking class from Sacred Kitchen and received a box for the class. It's very…read morewell-thought-out: the attention-to-detail for the box and class is amazing! There's great signage and directions. Chef Jesse is inspiring and fun. I can't recommend Sacred Kitchen enough for an online class for friends, family, coworkers, etc.

Sacred Kitchen, is one part "Top Chef", one part lunch/dinner party, and one part leadership…read moreworkshop. We divided up into teams to make a multi-course meal under the guidance of their seasoned chef facilitators. The entire experience was so much fun and I learned many new qualities about my co-workers. At Sacred Kitchen, cooking together becomes the frame for a real-time conversation about leadership and relationship at work. After the excitement of cooking, we sat down banquet style, and ate our delicious meal. chef Jesse guided our conversation and shared insights. We left with delighted palate, beautiful recipes, along with tips and tricks from kitchen professions! Chef Jesse was super helpful planning the menu course, venue selection and everything I needed to plan this amazing team event. Thank you Chef Jesse and The Sacred Kitchen Team: David, Nora, and Jeremy. It was such a unique cooking experience I ever had!

Nicole led a virtual Chevre-making class for my colleagues and I and it was a blast! Pretty awesome…read moreto be able to enjoy such a fun, informative and highly rewarding (we did get fresh cheese out of it after all) experience via Zoom. We were provided with our very own cheese-making kit ahead of the class (with immersion thermometer, cheesecloth and straining basket included) and super detailed instructions to replicate the recipe at home in just 10 minutes. Worth to note that the cheese culture packet that came with our kit was enough to culture an additional 3 quarts of milk beyond the one we prepped, too. Nicole was lovely - she answered all our questions, and gave us pro cheese seasoning/paring and gifting tips. Would highly recommend, especially for large-group/team bonding events. Looks like everyone will be getting fresh cheese this Christmas :-)

I cannot praise Nicole more for her amazing cheese making classes! Our company did an outing here…read moreto make Burrata, Mozzarella, and Goat Cheese and had a blast. Nicole makes sure to explain everything thoroughly, including the history of each cheese. Makes everything super interesting. We also included a grazing board and they were all so delicious. We were eating, making cheese, and having fun the entire time. Parking is a bit difficult so we just did ride share there. The place is a bit hard to find but it's a office room inside a parking gate. I am definitely go back with friends and family the next chance i get. I hope this place doesn't get too famous so Nicole still has time left for us! haha Thank you for everything Nicole!!

Love this store. Like the new location even if parking can be a pain. Got a new vinegar mother and…read moresome sour dough starters for a friend on my last visit.

This shop has a good selection of fermentation-related supplies, some of them hand-crafted. They…read moreare not cheap, but often not too expensive. You can also buy plastic lids for Ball mason jars here, which I could only find on Amazon before. I use variously sized mason jars a lot for fermenting and they always come with metal lids which corrode and smell awful, so it's nice to be able to buy plastic lids locally. This store also sells fermentation weights which I use in the jars. Unfortunately the "100% cotton twine" ("NORPRO" brand, "QUALITY FOR THE COOK") sold here is not 100% cotton but has some plastic in it, which is not good if you were planning to use it with food. If you light the end of some of this string on fire and blow it out, it smells like burnt plastic. "Made in China" of course. It seems fairly common for Bay Area retailers to sell items that they don't quite know the provenance of, which may just be a sign of the times. I think most consumers do not know about this easy flame test for the purity of natural fiber products. I found a "REGENCY NATURALS" "100% natural cotton" "cooking twine" product at Ace Hardware which seems slightly cleaner. The best cotton twine in my collection came from Target I think, but the cardboard spool just says "blade included" on it, I don't see a brand name. It is only 10 yards or so. Also, the "Yelp!" website seems to be hacking my computer, so everyone should be grateful that I took the risk of helping inform my community via this medium.

Got to have an amazing Kamayan for our friends baby shower!…read more A very kind amazing couple whose Filipino/Hawaiian food is inspired by their parents! Appetizers Chicken Lumpia - Can't have a Filipino party. I could not stop picking at this lumpia. Palabok deviled eggs - I don't really eat Palabok and I don't really eat deviled eggs but again I couldn't stop eating this Main Dish - Just know I was the first one to finish my food from our friend group. Lechon pork Sisig - Amazing! Pickled onions was not something I ever thought of to add to sisig.... BBQ Chicken - Full of flavor just the way I expect Filipino BBQ to be. Dessert - Persimmon Babingka - again i do not eat persimmon but the way this was prepared, I wish they were closer to Los Angeles because I would order all the different Babingkas they make.

We hired Eats by E to cater our parents 50th Wedding Anniversary for 40-ish people. We were…read morelooking for an elevated experience and not your typical party tray food in chafing dishes from a restaurant. We did family style and the menu included: 2 Appetizers - Lumpia Shanghai and Palabok Deviled Eggs 1 Salad - Ginger Noodle Salad 2 Sides - Coconut ginger turmeric rice and roasted veggies 2 Mains - Salmon and Lechon Sisig 1 Dessert - Haupia Ube Pie The food was really good, and presentation was beautiful. I debated to get a cake but told myself not to. The Haupia Ube pie alone was perfect. I was supposed to pick up pizzas for the little kids but I didn't have time. I was worried about what my kids would eat, but surprisingly, my picky 5 year old and 3 year old ate the food and Ioved it. I had so many things to worry about, but I did not have to worry about the food. I thought about adding more food, but I didn't and I didn't need to. I didn't have to worry about replenishing the food because their team took care of it. I provided some platters and serving utensils because we have them, and they cleaned it all up. They packed up the left overs in my tupperware, and to-go tupperware for the guests. At the end of the night, my kitchen was clean. It was a huge relief to end the night with a clean kitchen. Also, I was amazed that we only had 1 trash bag at the end of the night, and I attribute it to having a set menu and no party tray food. Everything about the experience was 5 star! The food was great. The team is wonderful. No clean up!! I would totally do this again with them (and I'll order extra to have left overs =)).

The crab poboi was under dressed and under seasoned. With a little extra dressing would have…read morehelped emennsly. The Cajun sweet potato fries were very tasty and crunchy.

As a nutritionist, I thought I knew all there was to know about food. I started the Cooking Habit…read morewith the main goal of learning how to make cooking time with my husband enjoyable and fun. I wasn't expecting to change the way we eat at home entirely. Emily's perspective on food and her ability to simplify the art of cooking is unique and tremendously helpful. Her meal planning formula was without a doubt, what changed our relationship to food the most. It has made a world of a difference in the way we eat throughout the busy week (cooking more often than eating out) and in shortening our weekly grocery store trip. Best of all, my husband and I look forward to cooking together!

Over the years, I've been lucky enough to take several of Rosetta's classes. In fact, I attended…read moreher first class at Paulding & Company's kitchen several years ago when her article in the Chronicle was published. Several years passed, and I was still thinking about the two classes I took when she first started, so I decided to see what classes she offers now. We attended several last year, and plan to continue as long as she introduces new recipes/techniques to learn. Her menus always sound delicious, and her classes are casual, informative, and fun. Keep in mind her menus reflect what is in season, and much of the produce she uses in class comes directly from her own home garden. Awesome! I cannot wait until we take another class! The following have been a few of my favorites: (Check out her website for class and menu descriptions. I wouldn't be able to do them justice.) -A Taste of Calabria -A Night in a Neapolitan Pizzeria -Risotto -Making and Using Ricotta - From Appetizer to Dessert

I love Rosetta's cooking classes. They focus on Southern Italian cuisine, particularly from her…read morenative region of Calabria, but also from nearby regions such as Sicily, where her husband is from. So far I've been to two of the classes: Taste of Sicily and Night in a Neapolitan Pizzeria, both at Paulding and Company. I really enjoyed them and hope to go to more next year. In particular, the pizza class really improved my pizza technique, and I have been reproducing the delicious, super thin crust pizzas at home ever since. Rosetta usually starts the class by giving a relaxed 20 minute summary of her background (she is a former chemical engineer who now writes cookbooks and gives cooking classes to share her native cuisine). Then she goes around to all the tables and explains in detail what to do at each station. Once the cooking starts, it's up to you whether you want to focus on one dish or move around to try different things. Each station has a few people, so you work together. Rosetta is very friendly and you can ask her any kind of question. She also gives very useful tips, such as using quarry stones for pizza instead of expensive pizza stones. Her recommendations are very reasonable and economical, but she doesn't cut corners where it matters, for example in quality ingredients many of which she makes herself (red wine vinegar, ricotta cheese, candied orange peels, etc.) or grows in her own garden. After the mad rush of cooking is done, everyone sits down to nicely set tables to socialize while being served the fruit of their labors. As I mentioned, the ingredients are top quality, so the food is delicious. There is also always an ambitious and varied menu with everything from appetizer/salad to dessert (we even had dessert pizzas... and the ice cream made from her homemade ricotta cheese was amazing!). Many people bring their own wine to drink. There is no rush to finish at the end, and you can enjoy a leisurely dinner with plenty of chance to meet the other participants.

Wow! This place is pricey. But they do have a great selection of top quality consumer kitchenware…read more If you are in need of a $200 pot, this is the place to come. The staff is extremely helpful and very knowledgeable. They are able to order items that are not currently in stock. Parking at fourth Street can be challenging, especially on the weekends. But there is a lot directly behind this place. It is crowded though.

This was very much the visit that made me realize I don't especially like Sur La Table's vibe…read more I walked in looking for Le Creuset. They didn't carry much but what they did have was in Cerise and otherwise they heavily leaned Staub. I know Staub is a bit heartier, but it's so unattractive I can't get past how washed out their pink color is. Walking around the store after being greeted, I found it organized a bit oddly, with a minimal Valentines Day section. They didn't have the Stone Lain Stella Porcelain Round Dinner Plates I planned on checking out during my visit but they did have the pink heart plate, which I promptly noped out of when I saw how glitzy it was. The location has limited selection and in my opinion is only worth a drop in if you're in the area and a fan of Sur La Table. Personally I like the Williams Sonoma vibe and style more, so I likely won't be back.