This is a French tradition that they have been having in France for years - everybody dress in white and bring their food and have a nice chic dinner in the outdoors. This year they had this event for the first time in San Francisco (https://www.facebook.com/ledinerasanfrancisco). We managed to get tickets and attend it.
They had very limited tickets to the event. I somehow managed to get in the first batch of tickets they issued. Each table host was allowed to have 3 guests. I asked two friends to join my table and eventually these two also got tickets.
So, we were able to get 12 seats and another two tables of 8 friends wanted to sit with us. So we had a huge community table of 20 people, all dressed in white, with ample drinks, food and great company.
While we were 20, each group of 4 had brought all silverware, cutlery, food, drinks, candles etc.. for their own little mini group, but we all still shared with each of the groups.
I cooked a french quiche with zuchini, chicken and thyme, then a chicken salad with mayo and parsley to eat with French Bread.
Weather was super colaborative and it was weird being outdoors in San Francisco eating outdoors at 8:30p.m on Fog Region !!
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