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  Dirty and Happy Girls Get Together for new Pop-Up Written by Amber Turpin    Manresa sous chef Jacob Pilarski and Post Ranch Inn sous chef Matt Millea are teaming up again and stepping into the spotlight at the next pop-up dinner organized by Happy Girl Kitchen and featuring the vegetables of Dirty Girl Produce of Santa Cruz. The dinner at Happy Girl Kitchen Café in Pacific Grove on Sunday, October 7th will feature delicious harvest season vegetables, transformed by the highly creative chefs into an unforgettable feast. Their pop-up dinner series has become wildly popular, not only for the...

We are very happy to share with you that we have just LAUNCHED a KICKSTARTER campaign to raise the money that we need to take our projects to the next level.  We are actually beyond HAPPY we are THRILLED BEYOND BELIEF!!!       Why are we so excited?  Because there are so many great projects that we want to offer the community.  There are just so many worthy endeavors and we are just brimming over with good ideas and with Kickstarter these ideas can actually manifest before all of our eyes!!!  Please go to the kickstarter website and check out...

We have two amazing spaces for our workshops in the Bay area that we are so excited to share with you...a Queen Anne Victorian in Temescal, Oakland and Flour + Water in San Francisco! Our workshop space in Temescal, Oakland is a beautiful, private Queen Anne victorian home.  We love to share this space with you and give you a peek into one of this booming towns most stunning properties.  It even has the oldest surviving barn in Oakland in the back yard nestled into the rose garden.  This home has been a Happy Girl Kitchen hub for a decade...

Why is it that we always hear the saying "celebrity chef" and celebrity this and that, but not "celebrity farmer".  Not at Happy Girl.  We get so excited when our CELEBRITY FARMERS come in to visit us.  Weekly we see different local farmers and it is always a thrill.  This week we received a suprise visit from farmer Tom of Live Earth Farm.  His young delivery driver* decided that he "really needed" to take two weeks off during the busiest season.  This left farmer Tom to do the CSA deliveries himself (did I mention that it was the busiest time...

 we are happy and excited to roll out the new website with an improved shop and a whole new format!