Getting Ready for Diner en Blanc 2018? New Food Options Available!

Diner en Blanc is one of Philadelphia’s most-interesting (or most-mocked, depending on who you ask) traditions. The alfresco dinner is practically an homage to the bougie, with several thousand attendants dressing in white from head to toe – that means socks too – paying a generous ticket fee to BYO everything, from food to wine to tables and chairs. The location of each year’s Diner en Blanc is secret until the last minute, although the date is not, which gives diners enough time to prepare attire and a picnic. Oh, and find a date – showing up alone is verboten.

This year’s Diner en Blanc, wherever it may be held, will feature catering options for those who don’t want to cook. From Eater Philadelphia: For those who scored an invite, either after signing up for the waiting list or by having attended previously, but don’t want to cook — or arrange a cheese board or pick up hoagies — Feast Your Eyes Catering sells preset meals priced at $38 to $70 for two people. Tickets to the event are $51 a head. The gluten-free meals are themed around Barcelona, Vietnam, and Paris, the city that first started hosting Diner en Blanc 30 years ago. There’s also a Southern-ish All-American menu with fried chicken and sweet potatoes. Vegans can go for the all-veggie Antipasto menu or the Morocco option, with medfouna (a stuffed-bread dish), artichoke salad, couscous, olives, and other Mediterranean bites.”

Diner en Blanc is celebrated in several cities worldwide every year, but Philadelphia seems to be the only city where locals take pleasure in deriding the elegant event. ”