2025 DINNER & A MOVIE SERIES

Join us on a cinematic and culinary adventure as Rialto Cinemas owner Ky Boyd and chef and author Michele Anna Jordan combine their expertise to take diners on six unique cinematic celebrations in 2025.

The Lunchbox

Directed by Ritesh Batra
Rated PG, 124 minutes
Dinner: Indian meals are defined, in part, by a constellation of condiments that transport a meal from good to extraordinary. You’ll enjoy three chutneys, three raitas, coconut, raisins, and peanuts, and sip Michele’s handmade chai as you tuck into dal (soup), curry, rice, stuffed bananas, and more.
Film: Lonely housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) decides to try adding some spice to her stale marriage by preparing a special lunch for her neglectful husband. Unfortunately, the delivery goes astray and winds up in the hands of Saajan (Irrfan Khan), an irritable widower. Curious about her husband’s lack of response, Ila adds a note to the next day’s lunchbox, and thus begins an unusual friendship in which Saajan and Ila can talk about their joys and sorrows without ever meeting in person.
Menu subject to change based on seasonal availability of ingredients.

Babette’s Feast

Directed by Gabriel Axel
Rated G, 114 minutes
Dinner: Our pre-movie dinner is inspired by the film’s indulgent meal, with vichyssoise topped with a poached quail’s egg, buckwheat crepes & tiny potatoes with American golden caviar, quail & chicken liver mousse in a puff-pasty nest, haricots verts, and a very French dessert. What to drink? It’s your choice, from among recommended selections at our no-host bar. But Babette would want you to have red wine.
Film: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette’s Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne.
Menu subject to change based on seasonal availability of ingredients.

What’s Cooking?

Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Rated PG-13, 119 minutes
Dinner: The main course of this multi-cultural nod to our November holiday is the extravaganza known as pozole, made with both pork and turkey, of course. Turkey picadillo, green papaya salad, purple sweet potatoes, stuffed chiles with corn salsa, mac’n cheese with greens and chorizo, and warm pear gingerbread are on the menu, too.
Film: In Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking, you are invited to a tasty Thanksgiving dinner that will all at once transport you to four different worlds and take you home again. On the menu this November are turkey, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie — but also tamales, spring rolls, kugel, mac & cheese, love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, prejudice, politics, uninvited guests, unexpected accidents, outrageous conversations — and all the other succulent and spicy surprises that arise when modern families come together for an annual meal.
Menu subject to change based on seasonal availability of ingredients.