Table notes
Setting the table
Wine With Pete
Rebuilding the table in an age that keeps teaching us to leave it.
Recipes to cook, wines to explore, stories from tables we've shared, and ideas for bringing people together.
Begin somewhere
Follow an appetite, a memory, or an idea.
Some things are meant to be read. Some are meant to be made. All of them start somewhere.
01 / Read
Stories worth returning to.
Essays, observations, and field notes about what happens around the table—and beyond it.
Enter the Journal02 / Make
Bring something to your own table.
Recipes and practical guides to help you cook, experiment, and make an evening your own.
Browse recipes & guides03 / Remember
The gatherings behind the ideas.
Menus, memories, and real tables that have shaped Wine With Pete.
Visit the Table ArchiveWhy the table
The table is one of humanity's oldest social technologies.
We eat there. Argue there. Celebrate there. Pass things down there. Learn who each other are there.
Wine With Pete is an attempt to make that space matter again.
Around the table
A growing record of the meals, fires, and conversations that make up Wine With Pete.
Explore the tables →From the fire
Fire changes the pace of an evening.
The work
Food is part of it. The table is the point.
Gather
Bring people together. We'll help shape what happens around the table.
Signature Table
Pete designs and hosts the table.
A privately hosted Wine With Pete evening shaped around your people, place, food, wine, and reason for gathering.
Gathering Blueprint
Your table. Your people. A plan built for the evening.
Wine With Pete designs the menu direction, wine, flow, atmosphere, and gathering structure. You bring it to life.
Not every table is private. From time to time, we open the table. Explore community tables →
The Journal
Food, wine, fire, places, people — and what happens when we gather around them.
Enter the Journal →Essay
Why the Table Still Matters
On belonging, ritual, and one of the oldest social technologies we have.
Recipe
Chipotle-Lime Fire Wings
Smoke, lime, chipotle, agave, and cilantro — food built to be eaten outside.
Table
From the Table
A growing record of the meals, fires, menus, and conversations behind Wine With Pete.
The point was never dinner.
The point was what dinner made possible.
Founding Table
Pull up a chair.
The Founding Table is a free email list for people who want to stay close—new notes, recipes, invitations, and the work taking shape. Published stories and recipes remain open to everyone.
Join the Founding Table