Chat & Chew
The Experience
Each Chat & Chew is built around a timely question or theme, guided by thoughtful prompts, warm hospitality, and skilled facilitation.
For guests, it is a chance to move beyond small talk and into real conversation.
For hosts, venues, sponsors, brands, and organizations, it is thoughtful programming that builds trust, deepens community, and gives people a reason to gather, stay, return, and actually talk to one another.
Radical, we know.
Not another networking event
Not a lecture.
Not a panel.
Not a forced mixer with name tags and survival instincts.
Born in New York. Chat & Chew is a salon-style dialogue experience for the conversations people are craving but rarely get to have.
We bring thoughtful people together around the questions shaping our lives, communities, and culture, then design the room where people can speak honestly, listen deeply, and leave with language, connection, and a way forward.
Dinner is lovely. Drinks help. But the real thing people remember is the moment someone across the table says:
“I thought I was the only one.”
Connection > Escapism
—> Enter the Chat
Chat & Chew is designed for public gatherings, sponsored conversations, private salons, cultural programming, community engagement, retreats, milestone events, and custom experiences.
We partner with venues, brands, organizations, founders, cultural leaders, private hosts, and community builders who want to create something more meaningful than another event on the calendar.
Women In Charge: Rewriting the Myth
As October comes to a close, Chat & Chew is teaming up with Epiphany Blue to highlight the incredible benefits women bring to our communities when they lead businesses. To honor this moment, we’re bringing together an intimate group of dynamic female leaders for an evening we’re calling: Women in Charge: Rewriting the Myth.
This exclusive, salon-style gathering is designed to spark candid dialogue, foster deep connection, and create a meaningful shared experience. And of course, we’ll do it the Chat & Chew way: over food, drinks, and unfiltered conversation.
Venue: Murray's Cheese Bar (254 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014)
Date: Monday, November 10
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Who: Female business owners, CEOs, educators, entrepreneurs and leaders (invitation only)
We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!
Warm regards,
Tamekia Flowers-Ball, Founder & CEO, Epiphany Blue
Marcus & Laura, Co-Hosts, Chat & Chew
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Join Marcus & Laura and celebrate surviving January with good food, strong drinks, and the kind of unfiltered conversation you won’t find on a Hallmark card.
This month’s Chat & Chew: What’s Love Got To Do With It? is all about relationships. Whether you’re swooning, swiping, or side-eyeing, bring a friend and join us for a night of candid chat and chew-worthy bites.
Fee: $50 (covers food & drinks—because love may be free, but dinner ain't)
RSVP HERE
Come for the conversation, stay for the connection and cocktails. Hope to see you there!
xoxo,
Marcus & Laura
P.S. For those looking to give back, Marcus is organizing a volunteer shift with the All Angels’ Unhoused Neighbors program to serve dinner on a Sunday evening in March (5:30–7:30 PM). If you’re interested, let us know by signing up here—we’d love to have you!
Post-Election Decompress: How are you processing the election?
Well, it happened. The 2024 elections.
So, we’re hitting pause on our death-themed discussion (for now) and inviting you to join us for some post-election decompression.
Think of it as a little friend therapy—space to share, vent, or just indulge in some delicious food and drink while we process what’s next. Or not. No pressure—just good vibes, great company, and your favorite hosts, Marcus & Laura.
Come as you are, ready to talk, eat, or simply unwind.
American Democracy (and the institutions that sustain it)
On September 11, 2024 - the day after the Presidential Debate - a group of New York intellects got together to discuss the American Democracy (and the institutions that sustain it). We could have been there ALL night. So many different perspectives were shared and Marcus did a deep dive into the history of America’s politics, and facilitated invaluable dialogue amongst New York’s best of the best at Harlem Wine Gallery. We need to host a Part II as we didn’t get through a third of the agenda that Marcus created.