There's no shortage of tech events in the Boston area. Spontaneous dining startup Soon Spoon knows that and, because of it, wanted to create an experience the startup community would find unique and, more importantly, delicious.
The company, which aggregates last-minute reservations for the city's most-booked restaurants, has recently taken to hosting weekly popups. The goal, according to Co-founder Travis Lowry, has been to highlight the culinary talent around town while also delivering a different dining experience — like a pop-up breakfast taco stand, for example.
After meeting the Central Square Workbar team at one of their pop-ups, Lowry said he knew they needed to collaborate on an event that wasn't the typical "basic, boring affair with passed apps and maybe some music via a playlist."
"We wanted something amazing for the startups and that wouldn't cut it," Lowry added, explaining his epiphany came when he found Workbar's projector. "We teamed up with our friends at Opus Affair to source a fun movie. From there, we knew that a 'reinvented movie night' would be perfect."
Opus Affair, a social group for the artistically inclined, chose the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, and the two got to picking the area's chefs and makers best equipped to deliver snacks better than the greasy tubs of popcorn that usually make you sick within seconds of leaving the theater. For $25, movie-goers can start preparing for:
- Three different brews by Harpoon Brewery;
- Full Taza Chocolate bars;
- Popcorn by Josh Lewin of Bread and Salt Boston;
- Handmade sodas by Kate Holowchik of jm Curley;
- Pickles from Grillo's Pickles
- and Savory Chicken Nachos by PhaDe Food Labs.
From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 18, Soon Spoon and Opus Affair will create "a casual, standing setting so you can eat, drink, mingle and discuss the finer points of zombie films." The movie will start rolling around 7:30 on Workbar's "amazing (and huge!)" screen, and people can start settling in properly stuffed.
To Lowry, the event will let "interested diners connect with the food and drink, and the people who make that food and drink, in a completely non-traditional setting."
And what gets more non-traditional than zombies?
If you go: Friday, July 18; 6-10 p.m.; Workbar, 45 Prospect St., Cambridge; Tickets are $25 and can be purchased here.
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