… Join us for delicious (raw food/vegan/vegetarian) meals, share your favorite recipes, discuss living a healthy (vegetarian - vegan - raw food) lifestyle, support green/eco living, and make new friends! Everyone is welcome, from the vegetarian/vegan/raw food-curious to the 100% vegetarian/vegan/raw foodists. Please visit http://www.ChicagoVeg.com to learn more about our mission, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace.

Join us for exciting culinary and cultural adventures here in Chicago and around the world! If you enjoy wine tours, cooking classes, dining out, reviewing great restaurants, and immersing yourself in fascinating new cultures and cuisines, SALUT! is for you. Whether you're a professional chef, an experienced wine connoisseur, or just someone who enjoys good food shared with good friends, you're welcome here at SALUT! We get together for lively, delicious dinner …

The Incredible Healing Powers of Raw (Living) Foods and Juices are the fastest way to restore wellness. Support in this lifestyle choice is essential for success. Let's support each other by gathering and sharing food, thoughts, events and activities that foster a sense of community. Please, please, please, if you would like to be an active part of this community, join as an assistant organizer. get involved! Attend and enjoy! Team planning meetings will be held twice a year so a calander can be …

The group is focused on making healthy, natural choices in diet and healthcare. We specialize in food allergy testing, pH saliva testing, detoxifying cleanses. The group consists of people that have suffered with food allergies and food sensitivities, people who have found ways to help their condition,

Meet with others and enjoy some of the finest food around Chicago. We will meet at different Chicago area restaurants to enjoy quality food and take advantage of the many culinary events held during the year. Also join the Chicago Buffets Social Networking Web Site at: http://www.chicagobuffets.com Tea lovers may join the Tea Social Networking Web Site at: http://www.hotfortea.com

Let's explore all the wonderful Italian restaurants, films, language, wine, history, culture and people that are in Chicago. If you are from Italy and are living in Chicago, have Italian ancestry or just love the country and its food and culture, this group is for you. We will have a restaurant outing and social event every month. We will be having some events will other Italian and European meetup groups, so there will be a wide variety of people to meet!

Come join our group of health-conscious individuals in a fun and adventurous exploration of limitless possibilities! Share new insights and experiences in vegan RAW food nutrition, well-being, alternative lifestyles, animal rights, environmentalism, caring for our earth, spirituality, yoga, alternative health and transformation!

LIVE CHAT too! Interested in learning what it means to eat local? Or why eating food from family farmers in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana is not only good for your health but also good for the environment? Or do you just like to eat delicious food? This Meetup is for locavores, foodies, food lovers, vegetarians, meatatarians and everything in between. We'll get together to check out farmer's markets, dine at restaurants that feature local products and produce, go to bars that …

Hi, I am Vanessa Moses the creator and founder of The Cooking Chicks! We are a community of professional women who love to eat, create, cook and share our love of food! Whether you like to cook or want to learn or just like to eat - our group was created to inspire and connect talented home cooks, chefs, food entreprueners and anyone who calls themselves "Foodie" - we just ask you always come hungry! I honestly always loved to entertain but actually hated cooking - crazy for some to believe, rig …

To teach Culture Lovers how to make homemade kombucha. If you recall, in 2010 Kombucha was pulled from the shelves because it was rumored to contain an alcohol content of .05% or greater. When kombucha returned, sadly to say but the quality was noticeably different. Well, learn how to make your own great tasting kombucha. You will find that the taste (richer) is better than store bought kombucha. We decided to give kombucha classes because we have received so many inquiries from individuals w …

This group is for those who love to cook and try new dishes and different ethnic cuisines to meet and share our love for cooking & food! We meet once a month in west suburbs of Chicago to have different themed cooking parties.

This is the Chicago Dining Out Meetup Group. We will do dinners at various Chicagoland restaurants (in the city and in the burbs). Come on out and join us for some good food.

Anyone may join. All you need is an interest in what we do. Please see our calendar for animal welfare / animal rights relevant events and more: http://www.meetup.com/vegNerds/#calendar We get together for various events. They can be for social, ethical, and / or intellectual purposes. We encourage all members to suggest event ideas, on the Message board, or at a meeting. Some events we have include: 1. Potlucks 2. Socials at restaurants, bars, or coffee shops 3. Activism - volunteering at …

The purpose of this meetup is to discover the best ORIGINAL Italian restaurant in Chicago and possibly meet people interested in speaking/learning Italian while enjoying a good glass of wine. The setting is very casual and informal (like a typical Italian dinner) I will talk 100% Italian and speaking Italian is highly encouraged for all partecipants.. I will give out 3 tokens at the beginning of the meetup. These are your "Translate for me please" tokens.. If you have all 3 tokens at …

Think of it as a dinner party for 10-20 of your most interesting friends. It's a chance to wine, dine and chat with someone new at a great Chicago restaurant. This month we're visiting an Obama favorite, MK. http://www.yelp.com/biz/mk​-restaurant-chicago. For $46 you get a 4-course meal -- think charcoal grilled greatness -- offering the best of seasonal freshness. We have made the arrangements, reserved the table and had our partners create an exclusive link http://www.gdine.com/restaur …

… They will be living rules and will chamge as we see fit to change them. Please realize that these rules apply to everyone, not just the person sitting next to you! ;-) We will be doing an event a month (hopefully). If we get ambitious we may do more. We will be looking for some volunteer help the day of the event too. It would be great if you could assist. We will primarily have events in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. If you have places that you would like to see an event held by our g …