Taste Club
Taste Club, the first-of-its-kind nationalist eating & planetary luxury question club, is supported by a best-in-class concierge team, and each are poised to motorboat successful May 2023.
Benefiting nonprofits successful the hospitality industry, and committed to championing autarkic restaurants, Taste Club is partnering with a Who’s Who of celebrated chefs crossed the country.
Memberships supply entree to exclusive eating experiences curated by each of the celebrated chefs/restaurant partners. In addition, members volition bask entree to bespoke luxury question experiences: insider entree to premier events, elite accommodations, with memorable culinary experiences. When rank is approved, members volition person nonstop entree to the Taste Club concierge level to publication their archetypal eating and/or question experience.
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Taste Club besides utilizes state-of-the-art exertion to connection transferable memberships, allowing members the quality to stock their rank benefits with friends, family, and colleagues, giving them each afloat entree to Taste Club’s suite of services.
Memberships are priced astatine $7,500 for a one-time initiation fee, with monthly dues of $300. Due to the high-touch, personalized quality of the Taste Club offerings, enrollment is constricted and requires a process to find eligibility. Taste Club has already launched an online exertion process for those funny successful the accidental to acquisition membership.
Taste Club was conceptualized by hospitality seasoned Joshua Kopel, formerly President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the California Restaurant Association. Keenly alert of the challenges that look autarkic restaurants, helium is dedicated to connecting those looking for culinary and question experiences with chefs and question experts
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Taste Club Chef Partners
Taste Club members volition person preferred entree to an expanding portfolio of awards-winning chefs and restaurants crossed the country. Taste Club chefs are not lone celebrated by the Michelin Guide and the James Beard Foundation, but are leaders successful their culinary specialties and communities, and are anxious to utilize their concern with Taste Club to make one-of-a-kind experiences for their guests.
Recently, Taste Club announced their 12 founding cook partners:
• Jose´ Andre´s / e´ by Jose´ Andre´s / Las Vegas
• Michael Anthony / Gramercy Tavern / New York
• Rick Bayless / Topolobampo / Chicago
• David Barzelay / Lazy Bear / San Francisco
• Katianna Hong & John Hong / Yangban / Los Angeles
• Aisha Ibrahim / Canlis / Seattle
• Brandon Jew / Mister Jiu’s / San Francisco
• Jordan Kahn / Meteora / Los Angeles
• Walter Manzke & Margarita Manzke/ Mankze / Los Angeles
• Wolfgang Puck / Spago / Beverly Hills
• Melissa Rodriguez / Al Coro / New York
• Jeremiah Stone & Fabia´n von Hauske Valtierra / Contra / New York
Kristen Teig/Manzke Restaurant
Travel Tastemakers
Kopel and Taste Club person assembled a imagination squad of luxury question experts to adhd unparalleled worth to memberships. Understanding however integral eating and culinary experiences are to travel, the squad has designed an ever-evolving postulation of on-demand question experiences arsenic good arsenic insider entree to premier events crossed the globe. Featured Tastemakers include:
• Hans & Maureen Paap / Co-Founder & Director of Hospitality astatine AOH Travel
• Leigh Rowan / Former COO of The Points Guy & Founder of Savanti Travel
• Michael Shane Stephens / Founder and Global Director of Curated Global Travel
Taste Club’s question experts person curated one-of-a-kind luxury question experiences, ranging from 4 nights successful New York for the US Tennis Open men's and women's finals, a Broadway amusement with a backstage formed reception, and an after-hours circuit and meal astatine MoMA, to a members-only buyout of the exclusive five-star Hacienda AltaGracia inclusive of regular activities with acclaimed Taste Club chefs, spa, and wellness treatments.
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Non Profit Donations
The ngo of Taste Club is to put successful the aboriginal of the hospitality manufacture done fiscal contributions to some non-profit organizations and restaurateurs that exemplify Taste Club’s halfway values of work to the manufacture and its communities. Taste Club has committed to donating implicit $1,000,000 to organizations that enactment the hospitality manufacture and unite radical done food, the main beneficiary being the James Beard Foundation.
“We are grateful to the Taste Club squad for believing successful our Good Food for Good ngo and supporting our enactment done this precise generous donation,” said Clare Reichenbach, CEO of the James Beard Foundation. “The funds volition beryllium directed towards our full slate of interaction programs—initiatives which supply captious enactment to the autarkic edifice community, and which champion a much sustainable, equitable, and captious aboriginal for the nutrient and beverage industry.”
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Sustainability Partner Zero Foodprint
As the Taste Club web expands geographically, Founder Joshua Kopel is mindful of the interaction that the enactment has connected the environment. Taste Club is simply a sustainable endeavor moving to mitigate 100% of their c footprint. To that end, Taste Club has chosen the nonprofit enactment Zero Foodprint arsenic that partner. In enactment of ZFP’s ngo to mobilize the nutrient satellite astir cultivation clime solutions, Taste Club volition donate $50,000 to the enactment who volition proviso those funds arsenic grants to farmers utilizing regenerative farming practices—proven to beryllium the astir impactful inaugural yet towards solving planetary warming.
To use for membership, sojourn www.taste.club Follow @tasteclublife connected Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Taste Club was launched successful 2023 For much information, sojourn http://taste.club.