The Adobo Cook Off for a Cause is 7 Mile House's annual adobo tasting competition and fundraiser celebrating one of the Philippines’ most beloved dishes: Adobo. Sample six unique adobo recipes, enjoy unlimited rice and drinks, vote for your favorite, and help support a local nonprofit.

Each year, home cooks and chefs compete for two titles: People's Choice ( YOU, the ticket holder) and Critics' Choice (a select panel of judges). Every ticket helps raise funds for a community cause while celebrating one of the Philippines' most iconic dishes.

This year, we are proud to partner with San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District, SOMA Pilipinas, as our designated beneficiary, who will receive 100% of the proceeds from the Adobo Cookoff!

Join SOMA Pilipinas in viewing Cian Dayrit’s exhibition, Liberties Were Taken, at Root Division . All are welcome to view the exhibit and join SOMA Pilipinas for music, food, and activities as part of their Appreciation Party for Advisory Group Members.

About the Exhibit

Liberties Were Taken showcases Dayrit’s investigations of power and identity as represented and reproduced in monuments, museums, and maps. His work unravels the layering of complex power structures, oppressive systems ,and the legacies of colonialism that continue to dominate Philippine society today. The exhibition brings together embroidered textiles, elaborate paintings, and multimedia works created over a decade of participatory actions and solidarity work with landless farmers, Indigenous, and marginalized groups in the Philippines and around the world.

Call For Artworks

SOMA Pilipinas invites artists and community members submit artworks that highlight SOMA Pilipinas' past, present, and future for an upcoming historical and community-arts based exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from August 1 - December 14, 2025. 

SOMA Pilipinas invites artists to submit artworks that: 

• Pay homage to the generations before us that forged the Filipino community’s living legacy of building community through the bayanihan spirit throughout San Francisco, with special focus on the South of Market neighborhood

• Document our community’s lived experiences and efforts to re/claim space and

• Imagine Filipinx futures amidst an ever changing South of Market neighborhood and City. 

This call is open to visual artwork (2D work including: painting, mixed-media, photography); 3D sculptural objects; and short-form video works. Deadline to submit is March 31, 2025 at 8PM PST.  

SOMA Pilipinas is Community-in-Action and a Cultural Movement. The cultural heritage district spanning 1.5 square miles honors 120+ history of Filipinos in San Francisco, and celebrates the community’s living legacy of making home, celebrating culture, building community and fighting for economic and racial justice in the rapidly gentrifying South of Market neighborhood. We are looking for passionate, motivated students to join us as interns and help us plan and execute community events and programs.

Deadline Extended to March 27, 2025 - apply today!