The pop-up dinner series arrives in September, bringing the magic of the movies to life through creative food and cocktails.
There may be no single word with more cultural cache right now than the word “immersive,” an aspirational concept for every kind of experience from art galleries to live sports. Maybe it’s a post-pandemic, pre-apocalypse crisis of the collective soul, or maybe it’s an earnest attempt to reconnect with three dimensional public space. Either way, immersive events are all the rage, and Fork n’ Film is coming to New York City to prove it.
The event series has been a huge hit in their original home of LA, and they’re about to make their Big Apple debut in September with the same concept: tying dinner and a movie together into one magical night out.
The idea is simple, ingenious in the way, that everything successful seems simple once it’s already popular. Guests arrive for a movie screening, settling in to a table instead of a row of seats. The film begins, and as key events happen on screen, the team at Fork n’ Film delivers a coursed-out series of fun and interactive dishes inspired by and timed up with the action.
Hagrid brings Harry Potter an iconic birthday cake in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and all of a sudden a perfect replica lands in front of you, too. Remy the rat makes potato leek soup in Ratatouille, and you are delivered a little pot of broth with fistfuls of herbs and spices to drop in yourself at the same time. Dishes are playful and creative, with lots of flash and smoke, trickery and whimsical touches like edible paper or a dish served with a lit sparkler.
The immersive dinner experience comes from Nick Houston and Francesca Duncan, two creative types—Duncan is a singer-songwriter and Houston is a writer—who love food and…
