This looks like fun. I believe they even had one of these in Los Angeles some time back.
A pop-up picnic in the White City
Dressed-down Tel Aviv gets gussied up for the first Israeli Diner En Blanc, a high-class, flashmob-style dinner
BY DEBRA KAMIN June 26, 2014
The sun was low in the sky behind Habima Square on Wednesday evening, and the sparkling new white facade of the arts complex, as well as the smoothly paved stones of the open courtyard and its lovely sunken garden, were glowing gold and pink in the twilight. Suddenly, from all corners of the square, packs of revelers clad all in white began streaming in.
They carried tables, linens, chilled bottles of wine. Some had flowers and vases; others cigars, cheeses and baguettes. In a scene that felt so foreign in this corner of the Middle East, the crowd, some 300 strong, began opening their folding chairs, unfurling their tablecloths, and setting their makeshift tables. Diner en Blanc dinner in white had begun.
Diner en Blanc is perhaps the most famous pop-up picnic in the world, and Wednesday evening marked its debut event in Israel. The meal, which is one part flash mob, one part guerilla gourmet, and several parts pretentious fun, is the brainchild of Parisian Francois Pasquier, who founded the event in his hometown in the 1980s. Smartly dressed foodies in their crispest white are given a meeting point and a time, but the meals location remains a tightly guarded secret, with diners guided from the meeting point to the location by a handful of in-the-know guides.
Read more:
A pop-up picnic in the White City | The Times of Israel
A pop-up picnic in the White City
Dressed-down Tel Aviv gets gussied up for the first Israeli Diner En Blanc, a high-class, flashmob-style dinner
BY DEBRA KAMIN June 26, 2014
The sun was low in the sky behind Habima Square on Wednesday evening, and the sparkling new white facade of the arts complex, as well as the smoothly paved stones of the open courtyard and its lovely sunken garden, were glowing gold and pink in the twilight. Suddenly, from all corners of the square, packs of revelers clad all in white began streaming in.
They carried tables, linens, chilled bottles of wine. Some had flowers and vases; others cigars, cheeses and baguettes. In a scene that felt so foreign in this corner of the Middle East, the crowd, some 300 strong, began opening their folding chairs, unfurling their tablecloths, and setting their makeshift tables. Diner en Blanc dinner in white had begun.
Diner en Blanc is perhaps the most famous pop-up picnic in the world, and Wednesday evening marked its debut event in Israel. The meal, which is one part flash mob, one part guerilla gourmet, and several parts pretentious fun, is the brainchild of Parisian Francois Pasquier, who founded the event in his hometown in the 1980s. Smartly dressed foodies in their crispest white are given a meeting point and a time, but the meals location remains a tightly guarded secret, with diners guided from the meeting point to the location by a handful of in-the-know guides.
Read more:
A pop-up picnic in the White City | The Times of Israel
