defeating some pretty stiff competition, the Ghetto Gourmet has been honored with an Editor's Choice award for "Best Renegade Band of Roaving Gourmands" in the SFBG's "Best of the Bay" 2006 Food Section:

www.sfbg.com/2006bob/food.php#Renegade

Eating with Jeremy Townsend and his merry band of gourmands is a true adventure. Their renegade roving supper club, Ghetto Gourmet, enthusiastically explores some lesser-known haunts of the Bay dining scene. Here's how it started: Jeremy's brother was getting a little bored chefing it up at Mecca. He wanted to whip up some plates of his own and, with Jeremy's help, enlisted a bunch of friends to split the cost of ingredients for a long night of feasting at their pad in the East Bay. Everyone had such a grand time it became a regular institution, with a first-come, first-serve open invite to friends, friends of friends, moms, coworkers, and third cousins of friends of friends. "Pretty soon I had a room full of people I didn't know," Jeremy says two years later. With no prior experience in restaurants except eating at them, he says, "there's no restaurant experience like this at all." Integrating his past work in theater, Jeremy has helped the meals become like prix fixe performance art, with guest chefs and surprise venues throughout the Bay Area. A successful recent Ghetto Gourmet trip to Los Angeles has Jeremy thinking about going on permanent tour, but for now the roving supper club happily continues to plunder the Bay's gustatory riches.

www.ghetto-gourmet.com
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Congratulations Jeremy!!