Join Chantal at the following events, and get in touch if you have other collaboration opportunities to discuss! Check out this fun article and spread in the Washingtonian Magazine (Feb 22nd) to learn all about what I do in and around DC!
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm – PUNCH. BOOK. LOVE. – Join Jewel Murray and myself at at Méli for the next meeting of our monthly book club featuring punch, tea, snacks & novellas, short stories, graphic novels or poetry! $30 per ticket + tax & service fee to join. This month’s pick is “FEVER DREAM” by Samanta Schweblin. Reserve a spot here!
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.
Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
Saturday, April 27th, 2024 – Literary Cocktails / #GetLitDC returns to the bar at Baan Siam on 4th & I St. This month’s book pick is “Arsenic and Adobo” by Mia P. Manansala.
When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.
With the cops treating her like she’s the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila’s left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block…
Reservations for the 6-7:30pm or 8:00-9:30pm seatings via Resy available here! Ticket includes 3 Literary Cocktails + light snacks & labor fee.
6:00 – 7:30 pm tickets sold out!
8:00 – 9:30 tickets available here!
Sunday, May 12th, 2024 from 5:00pm – 10:00pm (TBD exact timing) – Special Mother’s Day pop-up cocktail collab behind the bar at Morris American Bar in Shaw located at 1020 7th St. NW. Plus it’s AAPI Heritage Month!! Double reason to swing by! Let me make it a triple: I’ll be there with Rita Kirkpatrick slinging drinks raising money for a cause. Details real soon. In the meantime, feel free to book a reservation!
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 – Literary Cocktails / #GetLitDC returns to the bar at Baan Siam on 4th & I St. This month’s book pick is “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” by Shannon Chakraborty.
Reservations for the 6-7:30pm or 8:00-9:30pm seatings via Resy available soon! Ticket includes 3 Literary Cocktails + light snacks & labor fee.
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.
But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.
Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 at 3:00pm ET – Agatha Christie & Sherry Book Club returns to Baan Siam! RSVP available here to join Hannah from Loyalty Bookstores & myself live or virtually as we discuss our latest pick: “Dead Man’s Folly“. We’ll sip sherry and tea, snack on kanom krok and chat all the details of the mystery.
In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, when a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in.
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.
Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that’s something sinister is about to happen….
Hannah from Loyalty Books & I will lead the chat! (link available here!) Join us live at Baan Siam (425 I St. NW) or virtually! We will drink sherry, tea, snack on kanom krok and discuss all the mystery! #SherryandChristie
Wednesday, May TBD 2024 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm – Cocktail Class – Join me for a fun cocktails class inspired by Spanish and Greek ingredients at Méli. I’ll pour tastes and demo a few cocktails and all wines and spirits will be available for a discounted purchase after the class. Reserve a spot soon!
Thursday, May 30th, 2024 from 6:00 – 10:00pm – 5th Thursday Absinthe returns! Absinthe selections and cocktails at the wine bar of Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. There will be Absinthe Fountain service with a selection of French, Swiss and American pours available. You won’t want to miss!! Plus, the dinner menu will be available! Join the Absinthe Revolution this coming May! #5thThursdayAbsinthe (Walk-ins also available depending on space) MARK YOUR CALENDARS
TBD, 2024 – Vinomorphy: A seasonal inspired menu of low ABV cocktails inspired by haikus. – Location is TBD. I’ll have plenty of sherry and other wine options by the glass, in addition to sherry cocktails, tea, & naturally, you’ll want to write your own Haikus. Reservation info soon!#Vinomorphy #Metamorphosis #WineTransformsIntoCocktails #INKbecomingDRINK RSVP soon!