By Dinner parties and supper clubs are having a moment in Boston. Now there’s a store built for your dinner party planning needs. opens in the this month, meant for both hosts and guests to grab whatever they may need for a dinner party — be it a loaf-shaped candlestick holder, olives for martinis, or funky vintage glassware.
Behind the shop is Maria Colalancia, who also started the Aperitivo Society last year, that have taken off as an alternative dining option for Gen Z and millennial diners, as covered by . She — her father is Italian and her mother is Irish and Croatian — as a reason she loves sitting around a table, in the company of loved ones and new faces alike, around plates of delicious food and bottles of wine. “I grew up in a family where Sunday dinners were just a regular thing,” Colalancia said.
“Now in my adult life, I really try to replicate [it] because it’s so comforting to me.” So obviously dinner parties are not new. They were culturally relevant , a tool used by the growing middle class to network and show off wealth.
Dinner parties never went away, of course, but they’ve been getting a very millennial makeover over the last few years. At least in the U.S.
, the began pre-pandemic and online, with people sharing dinner party inspiration, ideas, and experiences on social media. Colalancia’s Aperitivo Society really got its start in 2023 after a TikTok post went viral. “I had 700 people sign up for this thing that didn’t even really.
