The Diner en Blanc, an event attended by “memberships” and where participants must wear white, will return in 2024 for its seventh edition.The last edition took place in March 2020, days before the pandemic was declared in Costa Rica and mass events were prohibited.
However, after the return to normality, this activity was not carried out until now, whose organizers officially announced it last Wednesday on their social networks. For now there is no further information about the date, time and place, which is revealed until the day of the event itself.
The dynamics
The Diner en Blanc brings together personalities from showbiz television, fashion, art and the business world. People are summoned to one or more places, from where buses leave to the chosen place.
In past years the headquarters were:
Savannah Core
Peace Garden (in front of the Metallic building)
La Soledad square in the Chinese neighborhood
Hacienda Espinal
Here attendees must pay a certain amount in dollars in advance, but this does not include food, drinks, or the decoration of each table. That is the responsibility of those who are invited.
“Diner en Blanc does not guarantee that the host can fulfill all the orders you make on the site, nor is it responsible for said orders,” indicates one of the terms and conditions of the activity.
The history
As reported by the German network DW, in 1988 the Frenchman François Pasquier decided to organize a secret picnic in Paris to meet new people.
“That’s why he asked his friends to bring other friends. And thus the idea of Diner en Blanc was born: the largest culinary event in the world, which brought together tens of thousands of people every year,” reads the DW article.
For its part, National Geographic explains that Diner en Blanc is a global epicurean phenomenon (relating to pleasures). It is celebrated in more than 70 cities in more than 25 countries around the world, including Mexico and Costa Rica.
Each event is led by local organizers “who fell in love with the concept and have wanted to bring it to their cities, giving this meeting a local flavor,” the publication details.
In the case of Costa Rica, this edition arrives with a different organizing team than years ago and is made up of:
Éric Jean jean
Cyril Bagues
Gabriel Clare
Mauricio López
Arlene Raventós
