The women’s supper club taking over the globe one major city at a time

A global supper club series has landed in London, says Joanna Taylor
ES Magazine
Joanna Taylor14 March 2023

Supper clubs are hardly a new concept, but how often do you bite the bullet and attend them on your own? Yeah… us neither. Because, let’s face it, making conversation with strangers sitting mere inches away is pretty frightening. After all, who knows who could’ve voted Leave or — God forbid — doesn’t adore Jennifer Coolidge.

Philadelphia-born entrepreneur and food fanatic Samantha Wolfson has taken it upon herself actively to encourage women and non-binary diners to be brave, however. Her supper club concept & The Table, established in Amsterdam and now found in nine cities including Paris, New York, Berlin and Barcelona, brings together a group of up to six strangers at the home of one of her specially selected hosts. ‘Our mission is to build friendship at any age,’ says Wolfson. ‘You never stop growing from the perspectives and experiences of people around you, and we want to become the dining experience platform to facilitate engaging with new, ambitious women. No one tells us it gets harder to make connections when you get older.’

And what defines an ambitious woman? According to Wolfson, it involves anything but girlboss culture, which gives her ‘the ick’. ‘You can be ambitious in many parts of your life, whether that be growing yourself emotionally or growing the connections around you.’ In terms of food, each host’s style and the price of a seat can be anything from £40 to £150, depending on what they’re thinking of rustling up. All that attendees need to bring is themselves and their thoughts on each host’s chosen conversation starter, which could be anything from quarter-life crises to balancing work with motherhood. So pull up a chair, we might see you there.

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