What it is
Tabula Rasa is a bookable multisensory dinner experience for twenty seated guests. One price, one contract, one evening. It includes the purpose built acrylic table with integrated light, the live light and sound composition, the bespoke scent, five courses by a chef working in near darkness, portrait photography of every guest, and a package delivered to each guest's home two months later.
It is produced as a one off. There is no venue to book and no date in a calendar: the dinner is built into a location you choose, for one evening, for your guest list.
What it is for
The experience is made for evenings where the point is the relationship in the room rather than the food on the plate. Maisons, marques, boards, funds and families use it to mark something that will not happen twice, and to put twenty people through something together that none of them can talk their way around.
It is bought by people whose guests can already buy any restaurant in the world. What they cannot buy is an evening that only existed once, for them.
- Luxury and fashion houses
- Automotive launches
- Watchmaking and jewellery
- Boards and partnerships
- Private banking and family offices
- Art fairs and collector dinners
- Signing and closing dinners
- Real estate and investment
- Hotel and resort openings
- Yachting and private aviation
Questions we are usually asked
Can it be built in our own building?
Usually yes, and it is often the better option. An unfinished floor, a basement or a plant room in your own asset tends to be more powerful than a hired venue, because your guests recognise the building and still cannot work out where they are. We assess blackout, access, power and acoustics on a site visit before confirming.
How many guests can be seated?
Twenty at the table, and the table takes twenty-two if you need two more places. That limit is the design: everyone can see everyone, and the group moves through the evening as one body. The reception before and after can be larger if you want a wider circle around the core group.
Are dietary requirements possible?
Yes. Allergies, intolerances and preferences are collected in advance and built into the courses rather than substituted at the table. Nothing about a guest's plate should reveal itself as an exception in the dark.
Do guests have to be blindfolded?
The walk is what disconnects people from their own evening, so we strongly recommend keeping it. It is handled slowly, one guest at a time, with a guide for each person, and anybody who would rather not can be brought in separately without breaking the sequence.
Can we speak, present or sign something?
Yes, but before or afterwards, not during. The reception is the moment for a word, a signing or a short presentation, while everybody can still see one another and nothing has started yet. Once the blindfolds go on, the evening belongs to the composition and nothing interrupts it. Then there is a second moment, back where you began, with a drink in hand: a room that has just been through something together is a difficult audience to lose, and most hosts find that is where the real conversation happens.
What does it cost?
From €15,000 per evening, excluding VAT, and most evenings land between €15,000 and €20,000. What moves the number is the location, the travel and the build, plus the options you choose such as portrait photography and film. Tell us where and roughly when, and we will come back with a figure.
Can we host it more than once?
Yes. Several evenings within the same build cost considerably less per evening, which is how hosts use it during an industry week or a sales cycle. The table exists and it travels.
How are allergies and dietary requirements handled if nothing is announced?
Allergies, intolerances and preferences are collected in advance through the host and built into the courses rather than substituted at the table, so nothing about a guest's plate reveals itself as an exception. Full allergen information for every course is held on site for the whole evening and given to any guest who asks, immediately and without breaking the format. Vegetarian, vegan and alcohol free versions of the full five courses are available.
What do our guests need to be told in advance?
Enough that nobody is ambushed, and not enough to spoil it. We give you a short pre brief to send with the invitation: that the evening involves a change of location, low light, haze and amplified sound, that guests will be guided for part of it with their sight covered, and who to contact with a medical or accessibility question. Anybody who would rather skip the blindfolded walk is brought in separately, and no other guest notices.
Light, haze and darkness: what about guests who cannot do that?
The composition uses low light, bright light and haze. Guests who are photosensitive, epileptic, asthmatic, pregnant, claustrophobic or uneasy in the dark should tell us in advance through the host, and we will tell you honestly whether the evening works for them. Emergency lighting and escape routes stay live throughout, whatever the score is doing, and there is always a crew member who can walk a guest out at any moment.
What do we supply, and what do you?
We bring the table, the light, the sound, the scent, the menu, the crew and everything the guests touch. You supply the space and its permissions, power, access for the load in, and the guest list with dietary and medical information. Venue hire, permits, security and guest transport are yours unless you ask us to arrange them, in which case they are quoted as external costs.
Can we speak to somebody who has hosted one?
Yes. Ask and we will put you in touch with a previous host, so you can hear how the evening ran from the person who paid for it rather than from us.
Who owns the images afterwards?
Every guest receives their own portrait. The host receives the documentation of the evening for their own use. Nothing is published by us without the host's approval, and guest lists and locations are never published at all.
