DINE WITH DEZ

Dine With Dez is an immersive food experience focused on the exploration of conversation and cuisine. Our first experiment has been to curate a series of intimate dinners hyperfocused on connection. What do you do in a space of unfamiliar faces? How do we create the spark that turns a stranger into a friend? Our new newsletter will give you a wider retrospect of not just our journey but our full thought process as we continue to grow as well as recommendations for where to eat, stay, and party across the world.

A Love Letter From Desmond & Ramses

Dear Friends & Family,

If you’re reading this right now we thank you wholeheartedly for being one of the first to receive our newsletter! WOW it’s been an exciting last few months, We truly don’t know where to begin! Well, actually let us bring you back to the beginning. Many reading this may know Desmond & Ramses for a plethora of reasons, but we are hoping some of you have no idea who we are and just happen to stumble in due to curiosity. And for that person, we won't reveal or discuss too much about us, as of yet. At this moment we want to share with you this idea we breathed air into and gave unexpected life to a concept becoming bigger than ourselves.

At the beginning of this journey, Desmond felt dissatisfied with how he was connecting with others post-pandemic. We had learned so much about ourselves during that time. Anxiety, fear, and depression were new lovers we never gave consent to but took over us nonetheless. They were attributes of Desmond that he masked with nightlife which was always his answer, but during the pandemic, everything changed. He was different, his career began to pivot and his goals were pivoting as well. However, creativity always creeps up on us in mysterious ways and it happens with (you’re going to be tired of us saying this word LOL) conversation. Desmond began to value the interactions that he would have always alongside a great meal and a few cocktails. Those moments would unlock thoughts we didn’t have before. Towards the end of last year, Desmond shared this epiphany on a semi-impromptu Zoom call with a stranger, now business partner and dear friend, Ramses Rubio. We shared our desires to create an intimate form of networking and our annoyances with corporations draining the purity of what we believe a dinner holds. Ramses said simply, “We should throw our dinners” and this was the start of something new.