Private Classes

Private Classes

We offer a range of tailor-designed, hands-on classes and workshops for individuals and groups, including team-building for companies.

Catering

Catering

What better way to celebrate your birthday/bridal shower/gathering than with our beautiful food?

Nutrition Consulting

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We offer nutrition consulting and menu planning to individuals, and consulting to restaurants.

Workshops and Events

Workshops and Events
Tomatoes the Spanish Way
Aug 5
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Tomatoes the Spanish Way
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Camila Loew Comment Ramekins

In this class we will prepare a tapas-style menu to take advantage of the seasonal abundance and prepare Spanish recipes that contain tomatoes, just when they are at their high point of flavor.

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Camila Loew Comment Ramekins
Food and Memory: Proust and Ratatouille
Aug 6
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Camila Loew Comment 18 Reasons
Food and Memory: Proust and Ratatouille
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Camila Loew Comment 18 Reasons

This will be the first class in which Camila will guide us through the fascinating connection between language and food.

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Camila Loew Comment 18 Reasons

Culinary Tours

The expert team of Sobremesa leads small, exclusive groups of foodie travelers on carefully curated trips, packed with food-related fun. 

Activities include: cooking classes led by our team and local chefs we collaborate with; market visits; excursions to fascinating and beautiful places, both cultural and edible, and meals at some of our favorite local restaurants and cafés.

Sobremesa's culinary tours are led by Camila herself, who takes pride and pleasure in extensive research to plan the best possible experience for you. 

Visit our dedicated website to find our more about Sobremesa Culinary Tours and make your reservation now. 

Latest Blog Posts

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Organized Tourism? Sobremesa in Japan II
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Organized Tourism? Sobremesa in Japan II
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Camila Loew 1 Comment Sobremesa

Sometimes it's not easy to penetrate into the local culture of a foreign place, either because it's just too foreign, or because, like Barcelona, the tourism industry is so overbearing that many neighborhoods in the city are designed entirely to cater to the tourists who crave the familiar (Starbucks), or a stereotypical version of local color.

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Camila Loew 1 Comment Sobremesa
Sobremesa in Japan I: Why We Travel
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Sobremesa in Japan I: Why We Travel
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Visiting Japan had been my lifelong dream; throughout my 30s, I envisioned the trip to Japan happening to celebrate my landmark 40th birthday. Not only did that not happen, but 3 months after I turned 40 we moved to the US, i.e. in the opposite direction. My sweet family, to make it up to me, simulated a trip to Japan on the day of my 40th birthday in Barcelona: they decorated the house with Japanese paper props, made a Japanese dinner, and even sat me in a chair and made me close my eyes and pretend I was on an airplane headed straight to Kyoto. 

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More Lingering in 2017
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More Lingering in 2017
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I recently got back from a 5-week trip to Spain. It was an intense time, spent teaching (mostly here but also here), doing research (for this and this) and, in between, squeezing in as much time as possible with my dear friends in Spain.

As soon as I landed in Barcelona, it felt like home. And yet when I returned to the Bay area a few weeks ago, I was so happy to be home! It's funny how that works; once you have lived a long time in different places, home is a moveable feast, and yet you can never truly go home again. These thoughts were on my mind all the time as I walked the streets of Barcelona, streets I know so well and yet, there have been changes (both external and internal ones) in the 3 years I've been gone. 

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Camila is off to Spain!
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spain, Spanish food, Barcelona, Mediterranean food, trips, travel Camila Loew Comment
Camila is off to Spain!
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spain, Spanish food, Barcelona, Mediterranean food, trips, travel Camila Loew Comment

I am about to leave for Barcelona, to teach the second yearly round of the Mediterranean Food & Culture program for University of California EAP.

The upcoming weeks will be quite busy; the followers of Desayuno con guisantes, the company I ran when I lived in Spain, want to hear from me as well -and learn about some of my California cuisine tricks. I have been invited, while in Barcelona, to teach a series of hands-on cooking classes and nutrition talks for Obbio and Still Cooking. It's a good thing I absolutely love what I do! 

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spain, Spanish food, Barcelona, Mediterranean food, trips, travel Camila Loew Comment
Blessings in Disguise
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Blessings in Disguise
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Our unpredictable human lives don't play out like a neat, well-composed work of fiction. Though we may attempt to read events as good or bad for us, the path will teach us otherwise, as things just don't stop twisting and turning. Awareness and acceptance of the transitional nature of everything around and within us is the only way to make peace with our place in the world.

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Alice Waters and sobremesa
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sobremesa, restaurants, Spanish food, healthy food, travel, slow food Camila Loew Comment Berkeley Food Institute
Alice Waters and sobremesa
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sobremesa, restaurants, Spanish food, healthy food, travel, slow food Camila Loew Comment Berkeley Food Institute

A few days ago I was fortunate enough to attend a session of Edible Education 101 at UC Berkeley guest starring Alice Waters and The Kitchen Sisters. No matter how long I live in the Bay Area, I hope I always live it as a newcomer, and take advantage of the many exciting events this place has to offer, without just settling into the fact that famous people I am interested in happen to be local, around and about.

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sobremesa, restaurants, Spanish food, healthy food, travel, slow food Camila Loew Comment Berkeley Food Institute
Highlights of my recent trip to Spain!
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spain, travel, workshops, adventures, cooking, basque cooking, restaurants, barcelona, teaching Camila Loew 2 Comments
Highlights of my recent trip to Spain!
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spain, travel, workshops, adventures, cooking, basque cooking, restaurants, barcelona, teaching Camila Loew 2 Comments

Read about my 5 weeks of food adventures abroad!

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Sobremesa in Spain until the Holidays!
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Sobremesa in Spain until the Holidays!
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Sobremesa is going to Spain until late December! 

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My First Trip Back to Spain: Two Culinary Highlights
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My First Trip Back to Spain: Two Culinary Highlights
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Some highlights of my first visit back to Spain since moving to the Bay Area in late 2013!

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Pa amb tomaquet
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Catalan food, Spanish food, tapas bread, olive oil, catalan food, spanish food, recipe, sobremesa, appetizer, sandwish Camila Loew 2 Comments
Pa amb tomaquet
Catalan food, Spanish food, tapas bread, olive oil, catalan food, spanish food, recipe, sobremesa, appetizer, sandwish Camila Loew 2 Comments
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Although I personally -unfortunately- can't eat wheat, it is one of the staples of the Mediterranean diet. The gluten-free craze forgets that wheat is a traditional, even sacred food in many cultures, eaten for millennia.

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“Thank you again for all that you do to help us all to eat healthier good tasting food. I was so very thrilled when you came along. So excited to cook with you.” — Lisa S.