• Founded in 1905, the French Club, or the Cercle se L'Union, originally a dining club for French businessmen in San Francisco--is still a members-only establishment.
  
  
• Your hosts will be Cal Shakes board member ​and ​avid oenophile Craig Moody and his wife, Kathy.

$500 gift certificate to spend on seasonal, rustic fare of Cafe Rouge's Mediterranean-inspired menu.
$100 gift certificate for ​SOI4 Bangkok Eatery​--long considered the best Thai restaurant in Oakland.
$100 gift certificate to PizzaIolo.
$50 gift certificate to ​Ramen Shop​

• Dinner at this comfortable brasserie with its extended banquettes, hopping bar scene, patio tables, and daily oyster selection makes it a destination dining spot. In a region known as a culinary mecca, Café Rouge has moved from pioneer to Bay Area classic. 

• %u201CSoi%u201D is a Thai word for side streets or alley ways which, together, form the essential life line that makes up the fabric of Bangkok city. Like the city, our menu is a modern take on the traditional through the use of fresh local ingredients, sustainable practice, and creative approach to authentic Thai dishes.

$500 gift certificate for the Michelin-starred Frances, located in the Castro and named one of Zagat’s SF Top 15 Restaurants of 2012

$200 gift certificate to spend on sophisticated cuisine at authentic 1930s French bistro Café de la Presse

$100 gift certificate to enjoy seasonal cuisine and cocktails at Range, where urban industrial style meets laid-back ambience.

$50 gift certificate for Bluestem Brasserie, an urban neighborhood restaurant in the Financial District offering a lively dining experience with a familiar brasserie menu of fresh, simply composed dishes

• Established in 1997, Chow has been serving healthy, high quality comfort food at affordable prices with warm, friendly service. We are your neighbors.  Our goal is to provide a civil food system that is good, clean, organic, and fair. 
• We support our community and local farms by offering fresh, organic, healthy ingredients. Our chicken is organic free-range, our beef - organic & natural. All our desserts are made fresh daily in our Danville location.  Organic juices are pressed to order. This commitment to quality has put us on San Francisco Chronicle's list of the Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area 11 years in a row. 
• We currently have two locations in San Francisco:Chow Church, located in the Castro District andPark Chow, located in the Sunset District. Our East Bay locations are in Lafayette's La Fiesta Squareand in Downtown Danville.
  

• Merging urban sophistication with a relaxed suburban attitude, Metro Lafayette is a stylish destination serving big city food. 
• With the largest outdoor patio in the east bay, it's the perfect place for al fresco dining amongst mulberry trees, fragrant lavender and rosemary bushes and trellised vines. Metro has been honored the past four years with the prestigious Michelin Guide Recommendation.
  
• The menu features an eclectic mix of seasonal California-French dishes including Maine Peekytoe Crab Cakes with Piquillo pepper aoili & celery root remoulade; Shrimp Spring Rolls with rice noodles, cucumbers, carrots & spicy lime dipping sauce; pan-seared Petrale Sole with potato puree, green beans & lemon-caper beurre blanc; and Cassoulet of duck leg & pork confit, housemade Toulouse sausage & cannellini beans.
  
• Metro recently celebrated the three-year anniversary of Metro Montclair in Montclair Village.