Camp Tasty 2026

Hello Camper! We are back for another fun-filled weekend (Fri, Oct 2 – Mon, Oct 5) at the famed Black Oak Ranch, located three hours north of San Francisco! We’ve got special things in store as in celebration of 20 Tasty years and 10 years since our first Camp Tasty. It’s time to dust off your dancing shoes, roll up your sleeves, and get your tickets today!

If you do not have an invitation, please submit a request for consideration by emailing: tastytastysf@gmail.com.

3 Days to Celebrate 20 Years of Tasty

Whether this is your first Camp Tasty or tenth, we’ve got tons of surprises lined up. Here’s a teaser of what’s in store this year.

Tasty Birthday Bash (Sunday night) – Sunday’s always got a celebratory vibe, but this year we’ll cap off the weekend with an extra special Tasty celebration. Pinatas, champagne, tributes, party hats and more, along with a special Tasty night on the dancefloor closed out in traditional style by our one and only James Cobo (always the best set of the weekend y’all).

Teepee Crawl (Saturday evening) – This year prepare to enter the ⏳TASTY TIME MACHINE ⏳! Transform a teepee into a portal to another point in time: a moment from Tasty history, an era that shaped you, a future we haven’t reached, an alternate timeline that never happened—or a place where time behaves very differently. Get your creative hats on now and create a theme teepee in our signature event. Register your concept here, grants and lots of support available to bring your idea to life! Email Bharat (bharat.batra@gmail.com) to confirm your interest in hosting or volunteering (you can also do it on the volunteer form).

Museum of Memories – Take a walk down memory lane. While our minds might be a little blurry, photographic proof don’t lie. We’re scouring the archives for photos, videos, memorabilia, fliers, and more. We need you to do the same! Add your photos and videos here!!

Park Party within the Party (Saturday afternoon)– Go back to the year 2006 to where it all began – Golden Gate Park. Our Tasty head chefs Christian and Dang will be reviving park party eats from the aughts, the beats will be served hot, and the cops may or may not bust this party up!

STRANGER Brews – Strange Brews is so 2025. This year, we birth Stranger Brews, our new opening night party where David Lynch meets Great Gatsby. In search of mixologists, Mongolian throat singers, sword swallowers, sexy saxophonists, Strange Brewnettes, and anyone you’d shuffle with in the Red Room.

And as always: killer dance parties, kid adventures, amazing lasers, too much fab food, so many great DJs, Todd Talks, games, yoga, pour over coffee bar, bounce house, bloody mary and mimosa making, Sunday wine, cheese and jazz social, and the best people in the whole damn world!

Camp Tasty doesn’t happen without you, so start thinking about how you’ll contribute! Got an idea, let us know, anything’s possible.

Payment Details

Please buy tickets as soon as possible, as it will help us with planning. Our brand new community-based event management ticketing platform was made by us, for us. We made a big push over the past couple of months to have this ready for you, and we’re proud of what we built – but we also recognize it’s not perfect yet. Let us know if you run into any issues while you’re here.

Ticket purchases are now embedded within the RSVP process. So be ready to make payment for your full party when you RSVP. Note the pricing details below. All tickets are charged a 2.9% processing fee plus $0.30 in addition to the prices mentioned below.

Registration Prices: Now through Sunday, Sept. 20 Tickets start at $385 per person for ages 18 and up, $190 for kids ages 6-17, and kids 5 and under are free. If you can stretch, we have a Camp Hero ticket of $475 (or more) that will help us sustain and grow Tasty this year and into the next 20 years..

Your ticket includes ALL meals, from Friday dinner through to Monday brunch, pop-up drinks and food, lots of goodies, and priceless community. Please RSVP no later than Sept. 28, as we need to commit to food by this date and want to make sure we have enough for all.

Late Registration Prices: Monday, Sept. 21 – Sunday, Sept. 27 Adult tickets purchased from Sept 21 onwards are $425. Kid prices remain the same.

Registrations Closes on Monday, Sept. 28 After this date, we will be closing registrations. Contact us if you have extenuating circumstances.

Scholarships: If money’s tight this year, let us know through the ticketing process and we’ll work something out. We want you there!

Got questions? Want ways to get involved? Ask your friendly neighborhood Tasty or just shoot us an email at tastytastysf@gmail.com.

Thanks and see you at Camp Tasty!!

Love, your Camp Tasty Crew (Jen, Amit, Brent and so many more)

P.S. Special thanks to JB and Jen for the countless hours spent with Claude coding our new community and event management platform. You all are our beta testers, so be nice!

Announcing Camp Tasty 2026

Hello Tasty Fam!

Two decades ago, a small spark of connection brought this community together. Since then, we have grown, evolved, and built a beautiful tapestry of shared memories. And for the last ten years, Black Oak Ranch has been the location where that magic reaches its peak. In case you were unaware, this year marks a monumental milestone: 20 Years of Tasty + 10th Anniversary of Camp Tasty

Because of who you are and what you bring to this community, you are a vital piece of this history. We aren’t just putting on another campout this year, we are curating a landmark celebration, and we want you there to share it with us. 

So please lock in your calendars to join us for a full, three-night celebration. If you have traditionally packed up on Sunday in years past, make this the year you stay through Monday morning. With this being our big double-anniversary, this is the year to stay with us til the end!

Camp Tasty | Black Oak Ranch | Friday, October 2 – Monday, October 5

A Welcome from the OGs

How is community created? 

Around a table at the Orbit Room? In dorm rooms in Berkeley and Boston? At a summer potluck in the park, a dusty BBQ in the desert, or a seafood boil on a deck? Dancing in the new year, quizzing in a pub, or bouncing on a giant hammock?

Perhaps floating on the Feather, tubing the Truckee, or soaking in Shasta. Or during late nights on a disco dancefloor, afternoons under a rainbow or two, or a crawl through a teepee. Maybe clubbing in the Castro or mixing in the Mission or tripping through the Sonoma redwoods.

Could it have been at a wedding on an island, at the springs, on a mesa, at a festival, or in a backyard? Or at a candle-lit memorial by a pond, over a shared meal to help speed recovery, or in celebration of another decade past? Or side-by-side as moon eclipses sun, rockets soar into space, crustaceans are caught, or sound journeys begin? 

This year Tasty celebrates 20 years of creating community in all the ways listed above and more. Plus it’s also our 10th anniversary since our first Camp Tasty. Throughout that time and before, we’ve all found each other and collectively created something rare, transformative, and truly magical. Whether Tasty’s touched your life for one night or twenty years or may be still to come, we have two asks: 

1) Make the time and space to come this year, whether you’re a regular or never been. We’d love to reunite friends old and new this year, so if you’ve ever thought about it, make this the year. 

2) Now that you’re in, think about how you can take this year to the next level. Read on for ways to share ideas, memories, and more, and think about how you can give your contributions – whether DJ set or activity, teepee or art project – a 20th anniversary glow up. This is the year to get involved! 

Tasty wouldn’t be Tasty without you. See you in October for the party of the decades (two to be exact).

In gratitude,

Brent & Amit

How We Build the Magic This Year: Curation & Inspiration

To make this year as special as possible, we need your input! Instead of just running our usual playbook, we want to dream even bigger. We’ve already started brainstorming to get the juices flowing and now we are turning it to you for your ideas. 

1. Dream Big on Our FigJam Board

What is that one wild, beautiful, or incredibly special idea you’ve always wanted to bring to life at camp? Whether it’s an immersive art piece, a signature dining delight, an unexpected activity, or a sonic journey, we want to hear it. No idea is too big or too small. Share your thoughts and express your interests so we can work together to weave them into a magical weekend. We’ve set up a collective brainstorm space to capture your ideas:

👉 Collaborate on the Tasty Anniversary FigJam Board

2. The Tasty Museum: A Call for Archive Photos & Video

An anniversary this big requires a retrospective. We are building a living “Tasty Museum” on-site, and we need your memories. If you have photos, videos, or even artifact ideas from the last 20 years of Tasty, please contribute them to our shared archive:

👉 Upload to the 20th Anniversary Shared Album

Note: If you have physical artifacts or need any help with formatting or uploads, just reply directly to this email and let us know!

Formal registration, camp dues, and all the other details will follow in the coming weeks. So for now, please hold Oct 2-5 and start sharing your ideas. Thank you for being the heart of Tasty for the last 20 years. We cannot wait to celebrate this milestone together!

– Jen & the Tasty planning crew

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A letter from the OG’s

How is community created? 

Around a table at the Orbit Room? In dorm rooms in Berkeley and Boston? At a summer potluck in the park, a dusty BBQ in the desert, or a seafood boil on a deck? Dancing in the new year, quizzing in a pub, or bouncing on a trampoline?

Perhaps floating on the Feather, tubing the Truckee, or soaking in Shasta. Or during late nights on a disco dancefloor, afternoons under a rainbow or two, or a crawl through a teepee. Maybe clubbing in the Castro or mixing in the Mission or tripping through the Sonoma redwoods.

Could it have been at a wedding on an island, at the springs, on a mesa, at a festival, or in a backyard? Or at a candle-lit memorial by a pond, over a shared meal to help speed recovery, or in celebration of another decade past? Or side-by-side as moon eclipses sun, rockets soar into space, crustaceans are caught, or sound journeys begin? 

This year Tasty celebrates 20 years of creating community in all the ways listed above and more. AND it’s also our 10th anniversary since our first Camp Tasty. Throughout that time and before, we’ve all found each other and collectively created something rare, transformative, and truly magical. Whether Tasty’s touched your life for one night or twenty years or may be still to come, we have two asks: 

1) Make the time and space to come this year, whether you’re a regular or never been. We’d love to reunite friends old and new this year, so if you’ve ever thought about it, make this the year. 

2) Now that you’re in, think about how you can take this year to the next level. Read on for ways to share ideas, memories, and more, and think about how you can give your contributions – whether DJ set or activity, teepee or art project – a 20th anniversary glow up. 

Tasty wouldn’t be what Tasty is without you, so please join us this October 2-5 (plan on 3 nights!) to join us to party like only Tasty can! 

With gratitude, 

Brent & Amit

Tasty LNY Final Countdown

This is it! The final countdown.

We’re heading to Alameda this Saturday to celebrate the Year of the Horse and Little Fawn’s 50th! We know some of you are waiting til the last moment. Now is your final chance to purchase tickets. Reminder, we close ticket sales tomorrow night!

A few final reminders:

  • Time: 7pm – 2am – Come early to make sure you catch the special opening set by our one and only Hans! Appetizers will hit the tables from 7-8pm. Dinner will be served buffet style from 8-9pm. Late night snacks will be provided. 
  • Location: Pho Nation — 1511 Park St, Alameda, CA 94501
  • Cost: $50 (Includes dinner + drink)
  • Kids: Remember, kids are free and we’ll have red envelopes ready for them.
  • Dress tips: Bring your FIRE Horse spirit and/or red and gold 
  • Parking / Rideshare: There are a couple parking lots nearby – here and here. For those wanting to take public transit and/or rideshare, there’s the Alameda/Oakland Ferry which you can pre-party with a bevvy on board or the Fruitvale BART station is about one mile away. Check the ferry and train times. You can Lyft/Uber from there. Regardless of how you transport, a friendly reminder to not drink and drive. 

DJ Lineup

  • 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Nels Hansen (AKA Hans)
  • 8:00 PM – 8:45 PM – Love Butter (AKA Gail & Tony)
  • 8:45 PM – 9:30 PM – B-Haul (AKA Brent)
  • 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM – Secondhand Soundsystem (AKA JB, Kris & Tim)
  • 10:45 PM – 11:30 PM- Sw00se (AKA Sara & Matt)
  • 11:30 PM – 12:15 AM – AWAZ (AKA Amit)
  • 12:15 AM – 1:00 AM – Mus (AKA Mustapha) 
  • 1:00 AM – 1:45 AM – Foomboom (AKA Fumi)

Call for volunteers (please reply all to this email)

  • We need some folks to help check people in. We need a couple folks who are down to meet and greet folks from about 8-9ish. 
  • We also need folks to help with STRIKE at the end. We have to be out by 2am which means we need all hands possible to clear the space in a timely manner. 

We can’t wait to see everyone’s faces and start the year off with a bang. 

– Jen & the Tasty planning crew