There’s something nobody really tells you about adulthood…the older you get, the more effort it takes for things that used to happen easily. Things like staying in shape. Keeping in touch.  Meeting new people.

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In school, proximity made it easy. You sat next to someone for a year, or lived near them in a dorm, and you had a friend. Then it became the office, or a gym, or a church. Now, more people are working alone at home, or moving through the busy-ness of their days, or focusing on their families, without giving new connections too much thought.

 

Meeting new friends (real ones, not on social media) as adults is harder than most would like to admit. We’ve been thinking about this for a while.

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Fortunately, we know a thing or two about what happens when you hand someone a glass of wine, or seat them at a table, and introduce them to a stranger. 

 

So after 15 years of watching strangers become friends over food and wine, we’ve decided to stop waiting for June to make it happen.

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Welcome to the Champlain Dinner Club!  Here’s how it works:

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You sign up. You take a short personality quiz. We use it to match you with a small group of other people…wine-curious, food-loving, good-conversation-having humans from across our area. We choose the restaurants. And we’re not telling you where you’re going until the morning of.

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Everyone pays for their own dinner and drinks. There’s a small reservation fee to participate. We handle the reservations, the reminders, all of it. Beyond that, all that’s required of you is to show up and be willing to meet some new people.

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The format will vary. Some months, we’ll send multiple groups to different restaurants simultaneously, then bring everyone together afterwards for an after party (not too late, we promise!). Other weeks, it will be a single gathering at one location built around a theme. Either way, the end goal is the same: great food, great wine and great people you wouldn’t have met otherwise.

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We’ll be opening things up and announcing the date of the first dinner soon, and we’ll have everything you need about how to sign up.

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Stay tuned.

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