Join Community Dining and Native Foods Café for dinner and discussion with Wendy Irwin, founder and CEO of Yellow Tractor, and co-founder of The Yellow Tractor Project. Sign up here: […]

Join Community Dining, The Yellow Tractor Project, and Dr. Geeta-Maker Clark who will speak about the value of engaging in the means by which we fuel oursevles for an evening […]

Michelin stars, a curated wine list, an attentive staff — these things matter.  But often, the most memorable dining experiences don't occur at a restaurant.  The things that stand out, […]

Join Community Dining, Lee Capps from the Chicago Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, Illinois State Representative Scott Drury, and social impact food entreprenerus for dinner sourced from sustainable farms with reverence […]

Please RSVP to repford@lashawnford.com Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.  Please join […]

We live in an era that is begging for innovative activism approaches.  Food has always been a bonding agent in the history of humanity and its potential as a conduit […]

Come join Kitchfix and Community Dining for a fermentation pop-up event hosted at Kitchfix Gold Coast Storefront with Plant-passionate recipe creator, vegan cookbook author, psychologist, animal lover, and curiosity chaser […]

Engaging in the means by which we fuel ourselves takes many forms.  This Community Dining event will take place in an exceptional venue (see pictures below) and focus on the […]

This will be the first in a series of smaller more intimate gatherings.  E-mail paul@communitydining.com for more information.

Chef Fiorenza, from Italy, and Laine, the Superfoodist and Founder at TheNutritarian.org & FastLanetoHealth.com (pictured below), will be preparing the following menu: Laine has a great vegan fudge dessert product […]

Here is the menu (food will be sourced as much as possible from either Whole Foods, Amish Healthy Foods, and/or Green Grocer) prepared by Chef Fiorenza and Laine DeLeo, the […]

The food will be catered from Kitchfix. Here is their catering menu. https://www.kitchfix.com/media/wysiwyg/Catering_2016.pdf And here is an article I wrote about Kitchfix: https://communitydining.com/blog/entrepreneurship-promotes-transparency/ Some other items I will bring include: […]

Contact me at paul@communitydining.com for details!  

Private home in Little Italy.

I’m excited to finally start hosting Jeffersonian Dinners.  As I mentioned, this dinner will take place at my home on Sat., Apr. 7 and the cost will be $40 – […]

Format 7 p.m.: Cocktails, light conversation before seating. 7:30 p.m.: Moderator opens by explaining the ground rules.  Most important: No talking to your neighbor; we are having a whole-table conversation. […]

Stay tuned for more details!

Social media affects our lives in ways we don’t always consider.  A world without the convenience and instant validation can be hard to imagine, especially for those who have grown […]

This dinner will take place at the home of Erica Bishaf (address and contact information to be provided upon signing up), founder of Pet Gotcha Day, an organization that exists […]

Steve Dale, CABC, WGN Radio, longtime national advocate for companion animals, author and former co-chair City Task Force on Companion Animal and Public Safety Erica Bishaf, founder Pet Gotcha Day! […]

Two sisters, Andrea Alberti and Katy Osborn, are behind the documentary Head to Head, which traces the path of hair from women in India sacrificing their hair to the gods to women […]

Beauty and Brawn Gallery and Community Dining, an organization aiming to connect people through shared meals that engage us in the means by which we fuel ourselves, stimulate substantive dialogue, […]

This dinner will focus on the topic of what it means to be healthy.  Some questions to consider include:  1.  Is there an optimal diet?  Is a vegan or vegetarian […]