- 12 MEMBERS PER YEAR
- TWO JOURNEYS ANNUALLY
- LOCAL CHEF PARTNERSHIPS
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Food is the truest
language
of a culture
Sunday Table Travels was born from a simple conviction: that the most meaningful way to understand a place is through its food. Not the polished restaurants of hotel lobbies, but the fermented, braised, and fire-kissed traditions passed between generations.
We curate two journeys each year, each one a deep immersion into a single culinary culture. Our groups are small, never more than twelve, because intimacy matters. The conversation around a table in Oaxaca or a hillside in Puglia should feel like family.
Past & Upcoming Journeys
Every Journey is an Invitation to Disappear
From coastal fishing villages to mountain vineyards, we follow the season and the ingredient wherever it leads.
Spring · Italy
The Olive Harvest, Tuscany
Seven days among ancient groves, truffle hunters, and three-generation winemakers in the Chianti hills.
Autumn · Mexico
Fire & Smoke, Oaxaca
Tlayudas at dawn, mezcal at dusk, and the complex alchemy of seven moles with a Zapotec grandmother.
Late Winter · Japan
Kaiseki & Silence, Kyoto
The art of restraint: ten-course kaiseki in a ryokan, sake breweries, and a private tea ceremony master.
Curated Dining Experiences
Private meals hosted by local chefs — at their tables, on their terms. Each experience is paired with regional wines or artisan beverages selected by our culinary team.
All Transportation Included
From arrival at your destination to every inter-event transfer, logistics are completely handled. Your only task is to be present.
An Intimate Group
Limited to twelve members annually. This is not a tour. It is a gathering of like-minded people who believe that eating together is its own kind of travel.
Access & Application
Membership begins with a personal interview. We believe great groups require intention — and that the table is only as good as the people around it.
Membership
What Your Place at the Table Includes
Each membership covers two complete journeys per year. Everything is arranged; you simply arrive hungry and curious.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
JOIN THE TABLE
Membership begins with a
conversation
We read every application personally. If your answers resonate with us, especially your curiosity, your relationship with food, and what you’re seeking around a table with strangers, we’ll invite you for an interview, either virtually or in person.
Camaraderie is not accidental. We’re looking for people who know how to be present.
1. submit your application
Tell us about your relationship with food, travel, and what you’re seeking.
2. in-person interview
We meet. We talk. We want to know you beyond a résumé of places visited.
3. membership agreement
Once accepted, you’ll sign our membership agreement and code of conduct.
4. Your first journey
We’ll brief you on the two destinations for the upcoming season, and you choose your first.
THE JOURNAL
Dispatches from the Table
I grew up at a table where Sunday dinner wasn’t optional. It didn’t matter what else was happening in the world — we sat down together. No phones. No distractions. Just food, conversation, and the kind of presence that only happens when you slow down long enough to actually see the people across from you.
Somewhere along the way, I started chasing that feeling in other places. A family-run trattoria outside Florence where the nonna wouldn’t let us leave until we’d tried her limoncello. A street vendor in Oaxaca who insisted we sit on plastic stools and eat with our hands. A quiet izakaya in Kyoto where the chef served us in total silence, and somehow we understood everything. What all of these moments had in common wasn’t luxury — it was presence. It was the absence of hurry. It was the table as the center of everything.
Sunday Table Travels exists because I wanted to take that feeling — the homeliness, the intimacy, the phones-off devotion to being exactly where you are — and carry it across the world. This isn’t about ticking off destinations or Instagramming perfect plates. It’s about twelve people who don’t know each other yet, sitting down together in a place that matters, and discovering what happens when you actually pay attention. It’s about the old-fashioned sit-down. And I can’t wait to pull out a chair for you.