Taking strangers to dinner and interviewing them about their lives since 2008
Back in January 2016, I met Dave Hindman for the 85th dinner with a stranger. During our meal at Ledo in College Park, Maryland, Air Force veteran Dave shared his experiences during “Black September,” a tumultuous time in the Middle East in the 1970s. He said he was planning to…
Want a free meal and to share your life story? Get in touch. I keep threatening this, but in 2025 Dining With Strangers will finally resume. I paused the site during the pandemic and then life intervened in the years since. Now I’m trying to sort out the first few…
The 84th dinner interview took place on December 29, 2015, with Michael Wood in Willerby, England. He’s an award-winning town crier who loves his work. Although Michael keeps the ancient art of town crying alive and well in his community, it’s just one of many unusual careers he’s enjoyed. During…
Revolution Studios, the software company co-founded by 127th dinner interviewee Charles Cecil, is getting plaudits for the recently released Broken Sword: Reforged — an update to a landmark adventure game first released in 1996. The new version features remastered graphics, improved audio, reworked scenes and more to provide a fresh…
Ines Verbeke was born in the United States but raised in Belgium, and has always wanted to visit the country of her birth. So at the age of 25 she has launched an ambitious effort to cycle across America, starting in the Northeast. During a brief stop in Washington, DC,…
Actresses Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery — featured as the 119th dinner interview a few years ago — are hitting the road again with their popular festive show “A Swingin’ Little Christmas.” They’ll be joined by Tim Davis (Glee’s vocal arranger) and The Tony Guerrero Quintet for a show full…
In 2015, Martin Dahinden was the Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States. He was also the 83rd stranger to dine with me. His staff at the Swiss Embassy were incredibly generous to arrange an evening of a special menu for the two of us, taking place at the gorgeous Swiss…
Where were we? As I slowly get this site back up and running ahead of hopefully resuming dinner interviews later this year, one regular feature that’s returning is Throwback Thursday — a sequential look back at past dinners. The previous throwback update was in March 2021(!) when I shared memories…
Far too late in posting this sad news but I still wanted to pay tribute to the memory of singer and performer Matt Yee. Matt, the 96th stranger featured on this site, was diagnosed with liver cancer at the start of last year and unfortunately passed in December in his…
Steve Hayes, also known as the “Tired Old Queen At The Movies,” has a one-man show next month in New York. He’ll be performing “Quiz The Queen” which promises to be “an evening of hilarity, surprises and unexpected anecdotes as we try and stump [Steve] by showing him various clips…