Katie Sweeney

Katie Sweeney is a San Francisco-based journalist who has created lifestyle, culinary, and luxury content for over a decade at many nationally-known and respected publications. Prior to Haute Living, Katie was a contributing editor at MyDomaine, the LA-based lifestyle website, writing over 20 stories per week. Before that, Katie worked as a personal chef to the Newsom family for two years. She catered and orchestrated many of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s personal events. Katie got her start at PopSugar, where she was the founding editor of its food channel. During her five years at PopSugar, she established a following over 750K readers, represented the brand at countless national culinary events like the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, and launched a popular video cooking series.

Posts by Katie Sweeney

Haute Drink: Absolut Elyx is Absolute Perfection

Absolut, the world’s first superpremium vodka and fourth largest alcohol brand, in 2011 released Absolut Elyx, a handcrafted, single-estate luxury vodka.

Intermix Fetes Fillmore Street Boutique With Intimate Dinner

Intermix has finally opened a boutique in San Francisco. To celebrate the occasion, Katie Traina hosted a fabulous dinner attended by SF’s most fashionable women.

The Luxury Beat: A Chat with Coach CEO Victor Luis

As Coach turns 75, CEO Victor Luis has much to celebrate. Haute Living sits down with him for a chat on what’s coming next for the brand.

Flywheel’s First San Francisco Location Now Open Downtown

Flywheel has opened its largest west coast studio in downtown San Francisco. Find out what makes this workout unique from other indoor cycling facilities like Soulcycle.

Haute How to: Handle Aged Wine

Since library tastings are all the rage in Napa, we decided it was high time to see if our cellar was up to par. We reached out to Freemark Abbey’s Barry Dodds to get the 411 on handling aged wine.

Haute Travel: SF Trendsetters Share Their Summer Travel Tips

A trio of San Francisco trendsetters share haute travel tips from their chic getaways over the summer to Berlin, London and Paris.

Haute Cuisine: Black Cat and Haute Hotel Eats in San Francisco

We’ve rounded up the latest and greatest haute eateries in San Francisco including the newly-opened Black Cat in Tenderloin.

SF Fashion Elite Celebrate Opening of Pia the Store

San Franciscans who are sick of online shopping, rejoice! In the past two months, three new clothing boutiques have opened up in the city by the Bay. First former Vogue editor Emily Holt revitalized the fashion community with the debut of Hero Shop in the Tenderloin.

Olivia Hsu Decker on the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

Haute Ambassador Olivia Hsu Decker takes us inside San Francisco’s buzzy event of the season: the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

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