Late Lunch Club

A monthly cookbook club, around my table in Portland.

Late Lunch Club is about getting offline, getting back into cookbooks, and gathering around the table with new people.

Once a month, the same group of ten will meet at Alex Baker Studios for a long Sunday lunch centered around a cookbook I love. I’ll cook the entire lunch, inspired by the book and what’s in season in Oregon. We’ll eat, drink, talk about the book, what you cooked from it (if anything), what you loved, and whatever else comes up around the table.

No potluck. No required reading. No homework.

At the end of each lunch, you’ll leave with a copy of the next month’s cookbook, giving you the month to read it, cook from it, dog-ear it, or simply flip through it before we meet again. The first cookbook will be sent to you ahead of our October gathering.

The inaugural Late Lunch Club will be a three-month Fall season:

Sunday, October 18
Sunday, November 15
Sunday, December 13

1:00–3:30 PM
Alex Baker Studios · Portland, Oregon

Your $350 Fall membership includes all three Sunday lunches, three physical cookbooks, wine and nonalcoholic drinks, and your seat at the table for the full season.

Fall 2026 - SoLd out.

The cookbook gives us somewhere to start. The food, conversation, and people around the table are the actual club.

Join the waitlist for cancellations and first access to future Late Lunch Club seasons.