A beautifully plated dish on a fine dining table set with wine glasses and candlelight

Members only, by invitation and application

A table is kept, always, for you.

Private Dining Social Clubs, Inc. gathers members around long tables and short guest lists — hosted dinners, cellar evenings, and seasonal feasts held in private rooms across our chapter cities.

What we are

Not a restaurant. Not an event company. A club, in the old sense of the word.

We exist for one purpose: to bring the same group of people back to the same table, again and again, until the dinners become a shared history rather than a series of nights out. Membership is limited by design — each chapter seats a set number of participants, so that a host can still remember how you take your coffee.

Every dinner is planned and paid for by the club on behalf of its members, prepared by chefs we host in rotation, and served in rooms borrowed or built for exactly this purpose. There is no menu to order from. There is only the evening the club has planned for you.

I

Hosted, not booked

Members don't reserve a table — they're seated at one. Each dinner is arranged by the club's steward, guest list and all.

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Small by design

Chapters are capped so that faces, and preferences, stay familiar. Growth means opening a new chapter, not a bigger room.

III

Member-funded

Dues cover the club's dinners and operations. What members put in is what members get to enjoy.

Our charter

How the club is organized, and why it matters to you.

A nonprofit social club, not a business

Private Dining Social Clubs, Inc. is organized and recognized under Section 501(c)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code as a nonprofit social club. That designation, built for exactly this kind of organization, exists for groups formed around a shared social purpose and supported by the people who belong to them rather than by outside customers or investors.

In practice, that means the club is a society of members fund a shared calendar of private dinners, and the club's only obligation is to spend that money on those members, in that club, for that purpose.

What "member-supported" actually means

Nearly everything the club takes in comes from membership dues, initiation fees, and the modest per-dinner assessments members pay to cover a given evening's chef, wine, and room. The club does not sell dinners to the general public, does not advertise seats for purchase, and keeps outside, non-member income to a small fraction of its total activity, as the law requires of a club in our category.

Any surplus at year's end is carried forward into future dinners, chapter improvements, or reduced dues — never distributed as profit to any individual, officer, or member.

Membership, not customership

You cannot buy your way to a seat at a Private Dining Social Clubs table. New members join through application and sponsorship by a current member, are reviewed by a chapter's membership committee, and — once admitted — gain the same standing as everyone else already seated. The club's dinners are a benefit of membership, not a product for sale.

Governed by its members

Each chapter is guided by a small board drawn from its own membership, which sets the dinner calendar, approves the annual budget, and reports back to the full membership each year. The national office in this filing coordinates standards, chef relationships, and new-chapter formation across the clubs, but the dues you pay stay largely within your own chapter's table.

§501(c)(7)

Federal tax designation

≤90

Households per chapter

Member-funded

No public ticket sales

A note on scope

This page is a plain-language summary of our structure, offered for members and applicants who want to understand what kind of organization they're joining. It is not tax or legal advice, and it does not replace our governing documents or IRS determination letter, copies of which are available to members and applicants on request through the correspondence page.

Correspondence

Write to the club.

For membership applications, sponsorship questions, chapter inquiries, or anything else — a member of our office will write back within a few business days.

Office

Private Dining Social Clubs, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA

Email

info@privatediningsocial.club