For decades, throwing dinner parties has been my primary way of connecting with my community. Set the table, crack the wine, and see where the night takes us. It’s where new connections are formed, memories are made and the isolation of modern life banished. For most people the thought of throwing a dinner party is overwhelming and so it’s just not part of their social repertoire. And that made me sad.

I started Sweet Antelope to revive the art of the dinner party in Los Angeles, a notoriously difficult city for meeting new people. But a dinner party is about so much more than food, it’s the alchemy of the guests that make the night magical. 

But how do you get a group of strangers to leapfrog the small talk of “what do you do for a living” and delve into richer territory like “tell us about a time someone really had your back” or “tell us about the biggest trouble you ever got in as a teenager”  

That’s why we created a curated storytelling experience as part of our dinner parties. I’m here to create the circumstances in which we can see and be seen by others in meaningful ways by sharing the stories that make us who we are. It’s connection that we all crave and yet rarely what we set the time aside to do. Sweet Antelope is a place to slow down, eat great food and connect to how truly fascinating the human experience is.