Family Meal

09/28/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

🎼Schnitzel & Spaetzle & Rotkhol & SchwarzwälderKirschtorte. 
These are a few of my favorite things.🎼
My introduction to these foods came from Meine Liebe George Ann. She lived in Germany as a teenage exchange student and speaks fluent German. Every winter we would go to our favorite German restaurant in the upper east side NYC and (over)indulge in a boot or two of beer and the aforementioned hearty dishes. 
This week we are celebrating all things Oktoberfeast! We’ve lightened the dishes up enough that you won’t feel the need to hibernate for the Winter.
Achtung Baby!

-We once again have a couple of events booked so Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Only Friday 10/3: SF & All points South
No bridges this week.

Please place your orders at: [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye!

09/19/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends & Mishpucha,

5786 already! Where does the time fly?
When people ask if I’m an observant Jew I always say only on my parents side and only about the food.
Me and my “shiksa” wife just love preparing our Jewish soul food inspired meals. Our kids love it too.

These meals inspired by my childhood are always some of our most popular menus… So much so I’ve considered changing our catering company’s name to one of the following:
-Jewber Eats
-Grubschlub
-Door Dashkenazi
-Schlemiels On Wheels

But seriously folks…Our schedule for schlepping these meals all over the Bay Area this week is as follows:
Tuesday 9/23: SF and all points South Bay
Wednesday 9/24: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place your orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307 (how come you never call?)

Ess a bisell, you’re too skinny
Stay safe. Put on a sweater, I’m cold.
L’ Shana Tova y’all!

Bubbe & Zayde Levine

09/14/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

We took a couple of weeks off due to catering gigs, but we’re back baby!
We are posting 2 menus this week.
Our Lasagne menu for this week and our very popular Rosh Hashanah Dinner menu for pre-orders. We have limited amounts so order early and often!
The early bird gets the brisket!
Please note the different delivery days to match the holiday.
Is it 5786 already? Feels like it was just 5785.

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 9/18: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula.
Friday 9/19: SF, North Bay & East Bay

Our delivery schedule for Rosh Hashanah is as follows:
Tuesday 9/23: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Wednesday 9/24: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place your orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You!
Steven & Georgeann

08/24/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

What’s for dinner?
It’s one of the simplest yet most fraught questions we ask ourselves everyday. Kinda like what the hell is happening?
We here at Family Meal Worldwide Conglomerate might not be able to provide you a functioning government (yet…) but we can still nurture your soul with our Fried Chicken Dinner!

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 8/28: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 8/29: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place your orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Steven & GeorgeAnn

08/18/2025

Sunday night Family Meal:
Grilled Chicken BLT on homemade sourdough and Homemade Canolis with homemade ricotta.

08/10/2025

Bonjour Repas de Famille Amis,

 “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook”
“I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food”
“Life itself is the proper binge”
“If you’re afraid of cream, use butter”
“People who love to eat are the best people”
We couldn’t have said it any better than Julia Child.
 Pardon our French but Voulez-vous dîner avec moi ce soir ?
George Ann and I will be paying tribute to the other woman in my life. 
This week we are preparing some of our favorite dishes inspired by The Queen of American/French Cuisine, celebrating her 113th birthday.

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 8/14: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 8/15: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

(In our best Julia Child voice):
Bon Appetit!
Steven & George Ann

08/03/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

Continuing on with the “latchkey kid” food memory theme, this week we are featuring our version of the old school Salisbury Steak.
(Not from Salisbury. Not a steak)
Maybe the reason I have a soft spot for this dish is because of a repressed memory of the first week working in the New York Restaurant School kitchen.
It was there where I was first introduced to the importance of the restaurant “Family Meal”.
Every student was responsible to cook dinner for the front & back of the house to sit down, break bread and eat before they opened the doors for customers.
When it came to be my turn I decided to make one of my favorite TV Dinner dishes:
The (decidedly lowbrow)Salisbury Steak.
When the other students found out what I was making, a few actually laughed at me.
Didn’t care…I figured if I like it then other people probably would as well.
Long story short…everybody loved it and told me so.
Let’s see if i still got it!
And while we’re at it, how about our version of the also old school Spaghetti Os for the veggie option!

https://youtu.be/Kq_L1uP7AUQ

https://youtube.com/shorts/R6i9FpF2w2g?si=9KytTmVbus9aBgQk

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 8/7: SF & all points South Bay/ Peninsula
Friday 8/8: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You
Steven & GeorgeAnn

07/27/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

Growing up as a kid in NYC my knowledge of San Francisco was limited.
The Golden Gate Bridge, The fog, Willie Mays, Tony Bennett, Cable Cars and of course:
“The San Francisco Treat”: Rice A Roni.
As the chief cook in our house it was a constant dinner staple.
As a professional chef I no longer wanted to use a packaged processed product so I was determined to make my own version.
It is now a constant Family Meal’s family meal side dish. Hope you enjoy!

While we’re on the subject of rice, here’s a 1986 commercial for Uncle Ben’s rice that I was in.
Look for the handsome young, svelte line cook opening the refrigerator door at the .05 mark.

https://youtu.be/NNSkvNe6IdI?si=wc60egyjBoUlnfHY

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 7/31: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 8/1: SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You!
Steven & GeorgeAnn

07/20/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

I take my pot pies seriously.
Proust had his Remembrances Of Things Past Madeleines (more about that later).
I have my Chicken Pot Pie.
As a latchkey kid, one of my favorite after school snacks were the Swanson or Banquet Pot Pies in our freezer.
Maybe I romanticized their actual quality but what I loved about them was that they were true pies…fully enclosed pastry shells.
In my adult life whenever I see one on a menu I always order one only to be usually disappointed that these “fancier”versions were usually a puff pastry lid covering the filling. Meh!
Our pot pies are a true deep dish pie made with love, a flaky, buttery pie crust and deeply flavored chicken-veggie stew.
We always make a few extra for our own dinner!

Enough about us, what about you?
Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 7/24: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 7/25: SF, North Bay & East Bay

Please place orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank you for your attention to this matter😎
Steven & GeorgeAnn

07/06/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

When people learn that I am a chef, they inevitably ask the next few questions:
1. What’s your specialty?
2. What’s your favorite food?
3. What’s your least favorite food?
My answers are usually as follows:
1. Whatever inspires me at the moment
2. Any food that somebody cooks for me. (Or fried chicken)
3. Cooked salmon
I love raw, cured and smoked salmon but cooked salmon just doesn’t do it for me, especially when it is seared or grilled.
I looked at this as a challenge to create a salmon dish that made me literally eat my words.
One day, years ago I was walking through the prep area of a restaurant I was the chef at and on one side the butcher was cleaning a beautiful whole salmon. On the other side a cook was cleaning a case of fresh white corn and throwing the husks in the trash. A lightbulb went off and I decided to try wrapping the salmon in a fresh corn husk a la tamale style. I threw it in our wood burning oven and voila! It came out tender and toasty/sweet from the husk. It is now one of my favorite dishes. Challenge met!

This week we are delivering our BIG BEAUTIFUL SALMON DINNER as follows:
Thursday 7/10: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 7/11: SF, North Bay & East Bay

Please place orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You
Steven & GeorgeAnn

06/28/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

Honestly, I don’t know what took us this long to pay tribute to “The Bear”.
It might have something to do with the pre-existing PTSD we still experience while watching this show.

They get so much right about the restaurant experience.
The passion, the love, the hard work, the pressure, the camraderie, the non-negotiables, the dysfunction , the trauma.
EVERY SECOND COUNTS!

This week we will be featuring the sandwich that started (and maybe finished?) it all!
I hope we do it justice.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5IOTLgF4gN8?si=EVAYxRyovEtZ_K8B

https://youtu.be/50N6COFkjck?si=B0QSYgke1wyaCFdi

Our delivery schedule this week is as follows:
Thursday 7/3: SF and all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 7/4: SF, North Bay & East Bay

Please place your orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You Chef!
Let It Rip!
Carmy & Sydney Levine

06/22/2025

06/07/2025

Hello Family Meal Friends,

Sending out the menu early this week.
We’ll be up in Wine Country on Sunday to celebrate our baby girl’s 30th birthday 🎂🎈🎉😄How is that even possible? 🧐
I included a picture below of 4 month old Brianne at Don Mattingly’s last game at Yankee Stadium.
Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast-Bob Dylan

Anyhoo, we’ll be delivering our Croquette Menu this week as follows:
Thursday 6/12: SF & all points South Bay/Peninsula
Friday 6/13 (Friday the 13th☠️): SF, North Bay, East Bay

Please place your orders at [email protected]
Or text: (415) 845-9307

Thank You!

Steven & Georgeann

06/04/2025

Catered a reception for the future Governor of the great state of California. Couldn’t help myself and served a Cheeto-Chicken Taco Bowl canape.