Dare to Do What You Love

It's Thanksgiving this week, so we are all preparing in our own ways. This year we have scaled back our offerings to two Thanksgiving meals to be delivered on Wednesday, 11/26 so we can deliver them as early as early as possible—the Bay Area gets full of traffic on the Wednesday before. We are very excited about our Thanksgiving Specials.

If you're just wanting to order up your Thanksgiving meals, then go directly HERE and select what you want & need. We are so excited and honored to cook for you and bring these meals directly to you so that you can enjoy your time and special people. We also have a nice selection of other meals to help get you through the week.

We are SO THANKFUL we continue to get to do what we love every single day. We love creating wholesome & excitingly seasonal meals for you every single week. We continue to be grateful we get to build our community by getting to know you and what you want, need & love. We also know we are collectively strengthening our local food economy and creating jobs by sourcing all our ingredients locally, and making and delivering the meals directly to you ourselves. Yes, it's even our chefs and sous chefs delivering right to you door. We want to know you and make you what we make for ourselves and for our friends & family--the very best we can.

WE DARE YOU!

Have you ever made a ridiculous wish and have it come true? You know, that "dream" job or even idea that doesn't even exist and seems impossible? Well, let us tell you about how this happened a couple of times over recently, and why it's important for you to consider letting your idea unfold--even if it seems silly, or impossible.

SHE WANTED TO EAT CAKE

Many of you will remember our beloved Japanese chef, Chef Maco. She cooked with us earlier this year and made many of her Japanese specialties for us--we know many of you love them and her baking as well. Of course, we were dreadfully sad when she decided to take a "real" job in the corporate world at a local Japanese start-up. Sigh. She still bakes and runs her online Japanese Bakery HERE which is her dream job, and you can still get her expertly decorated desserts for practically any event or special occasion through her new website. We still see her, and Chef Ginny shared with her how to get into Cake Picnic. What is Cake Picnic you ask?

Chef Maco & Chef Ginny on the ferry from Cake Picnic

Cake Picnic is a huge event set up and run by local Google UX designer and amateur baker, Elisa Sunga. To attend the picnic, you buy a ticket and bake a whole cake and bring it to share. The tagline is "No Cake, No Entry." Yes, this event is one big giant CAKE PICNIC! It's THE hardest ticket to get in San Francisco! The latest CAKE PICNIC was held on October 19th on Treasure Island, and over 21,000 people were trying to get tickets online in the first MINUTE. Of course Chef Maco got tickets, so we got to make our cakes and go to CAKE PICNIC with over 2,000 other people AND EAT CAKE ALL DAY!

The cakes we brought!

Chef Ginny has followed Elisa Sunga on Instagram since the pandemic with her "Bucket List Bake Club" --where Sunga shares ideas of what to bake each month and followers would bake it and post pictures. She made up Cake Picnic on a whim. She wanted to eat a lot of cake, but didn't want to make more than a single cake. So she called on all of us, her followers, and asked us to come to Golden Gate Park and bring a cake--that was 2024. Now Cake Picnic is running all over the globe and Sunga has turned a dream of eating cake into a reality we can all step into. You've never seen anything quite like Cake Picnic--the event in October had 2,068 cakes--a record number of cakes! Where else can you go choose to eat whatever you want from literal THOUSANDS of cakes? You can read more about Cake Picnic and all the locations it's running in the coming months HERE.

it’s really a picnic where you eat cake all day!

This was just a small, simple dream that one person had and it's turned into an event that people are clamoring for across the globe! Dreams can become reality in ways you don't expect and can't possibly imagine. San Mateo Supper Club was once a whimsical thought Chef Ginny had one night when she had a party and everyone was raving about the food. The thought was, "It'd be so cool to make whatever I want and people would buy it, but it wouldn't be a restaurant." And then she laughed and shook her head because such a thing didn't exist.

Until the pandemic. Then a start up happened in the SF Bay Area and it was funded by $100M in VC funding. Chef Ginny auditioned and was accepted as a chef. Within 6 months she was recruited away by another VC group, and together they designed a different start up--Gather Made. It lasted a year before the investors gave up on the model (that whole burn-rate-time-to-profitability thing). Chef Ginny with her background in product management created her own version that was designed to be a little smaller, run on rented standard software, and be focused on serving the community--not build a giant online "Chef Marketplace” to make investors rich. That's how a simple idea or dream became San Mateo Supper Club.

So consider that little thought you have--even if it doesn't seem possible. TRY the thing. It's okay to think it's not going to become anything...but it might if you just let it happen. We are living our own dream here serving you--and we live in a place where Cake Picnic has gone from just a thought to a viral, globally traveling event. What is your little thought or idea?

Happy Thanksgiving!